I am sitting at the breakfast table in Indio! Wednesday morning Bill turned on our water maker on the boat since we were on anchor and needed to replenish our tank. About three hours later he raised the hatch door to turn it off and was greeted with water squirting everywhere! After emptying out all the soggy items we had stored nearby he had me turn it back on- briefly- while he watched for the source of the leak. It turned out that the salt water under pressure had pitted the brass head of the pump and finally a pin point hole had broken through. We returned to Santa Rosalia on Thursday, regrouped, packed a few things and headed north in our truck, carting the broken water maker pump. We arrived in San Diego early Friday morning and took our sick baby in for inspection, only to be told that it was a goner. Fortunately, the store had a used pump in excellent condition for half the money of a new one! We came on home to rest and check on the house and the mail. Now we are getting ready to head south yet again. We should be back on anchor by the end of this coming week, right where I took the photo of a neighbor's sailboat, shown above.
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