We're here! And we've already found the best taco shop in town. We were led to this taco shop by a fisherman or a captain or something, named Jesús. We asked him where we could find this repair place, and he said he could fix my outboard. So we talked about that and told him we'd bring my outboard by after we ate, and he had just the place for fish tacos. Malavika put it nicely: "That's a small town for you - not only does he tell us the best place, but he walks us right to it." So after we walked with Jesús for a few blocks, found the taco shop, and gorged on fish tacos for $0.70 apiece and carne asada and shrimp tacos for $1.00 apiece (the whole meal, for all of us, including a beer for me, was $10), we went back and brought my outboard to Jesús. No luck. But he was a good troubleshooter. We narrowed it down to either the ignition core assembly, or the CDI unit. It's just gotta be something electrical. So hopefully I'll be able to buy those pieces tomorrow at the local Yamaha dealer. They're definitely installable myself.
Dick Dato on Boundless recommended this marina (Baja Naval) to me. It's cool, but for some reason the boats around here float around like crazy. I mean, like being tied up fairly tightly but still creeping away from the dock and then coming crashing back into the dock with the spring of the lines. It's odd. But Chemistry is protected by four big bumpers amidships. They have free wifi, cheap fuel (it's up to $2.65/gallon) and just very nice people. We'll hang out tonight and get lots of sleep (I'm tired now - it's 6:30), and then check into Mexico tomorrow morning, fill up the fuel tank and jerry jugs, and then head out for Turtle Bay late in the afternoon. It will be nice, now that we've had the daytime arrival we needed, to have the daytime departure we need so we won't be quite as sick out there (or sick at all, one would hope). I'll remember to actually take the ginger tables this time, and not just put them in my pocket.
http://pangolin.co.nz/yotreps/tracker.php?ident=WDD9964
Note that the thing is only pretty cool - it does things like make you go over land masses if the two last updates happen to have land between them. For this leg, I swear we went through the Coronado islands, and didn't run up on the beach at Rosarito.TT
