A friend of ours, Marvalyn, flew in to Mazatlan to join us on the boat for 4 days.  She arrived at 1am without her luggage which didn’t follow her when she got bumped off a flight.  We decided to have the airline send her bag to La Cruz and hoped it would be there when we arrived 2 days later.

As mentioned in an earlier post, the sail from Mazatlan to Isla Isabel was very rough with the combination of wind and waves causing the boat to corkscrew along.  Marvalyn has sailed with us a few times on Lake Union in Seattle, but has never experienced ocean coastal passages.  After some initial seasickness, she found her sea legs and did quite well entertaining Jacintha while Karen and I did the watches.  Her fluency in Spanish helped us with buying fish, getting directions, and ordering food.

In La Cruz, Marvalyn rang in the New Year with us at a beach party and got a taste of cruiser’s life inside a marina–pot lucks, entertaining with other kid boats, and meeting some of our boating friends.  She departed on New Years Day (intact with her luggage!) from the Puerto Vallarta airport.