Monday, April 21, 2008

"Magus" in Salinas, Puerto Rico



This is a short photo essay of Jenny's and my trip to Salinas, Puerto Rico to buy "Magus," a Banjer 37 motorsailer boat. For more info about this kind of boat, see: www.banjer37.net

We got there Monday, March 31, after a bunch of airline delays. We still had time to get to get to West Marine, where the biggest purchase was an inflatable dinghy. We then drove to Salinas (about 1.5 hours from San Juan,) getting there maybe at 9 pm. We put together the boat, rowed out to Magus, and crashed.



We then proceeded to make plans, buy a bunch of stuff, and work hard. We needed liability insurance to be able to getthe boat hauled at a boatyard. Short story, our Portland insurance agent (Dan Haley) had an insurance friend who got the insurance for us. We ate some good tropical food, too.







We had to do a lot of things just to get the boat seaworthy enough to make it the 25 miles to the marina we hoped to use: Ponce Yacht and Fishing Club. Hoachee and his guys did a great job with all the projects including the bottom paint. Here are some photos from that stop:




































The photo above shows the 100+ pound battery that hadn't worked in many years, but had not been removed.

We were lucky to get in a little vacation time on the way back to Salinas:
































See the Barracouda going by?
































We then did some more work, and put the boat on a good set of anchors. We spent the last night at the Marina hotel, leaving very early on April 17 for San Juan, and got back into Portland in the afternoon.