We motored the six or seven miles over to Nuevo Vallarta this morning and got our Zarpe.  The Zarpe is basically our exit papers from Mexico.  Very important since there has been a rumor that someone got to the Marquesas after sailing the 2500 miles or so and were not allowed to enter because they didn’t have a Zarpe (see photo below of the doc and the nice immigration folks who checked us out and inspected the boat.

There are five or six other boats in the marina who are ready to leave too.  Seems there’s a favorable wind pattern for the next five days or so and we’re all rushing to get final work done and provision the fresh vegetables.  We took delivery of about 20 lbs of vaccum packed frozen meat this morning and the veggies will be acquired at 1700 at the Friday Farmers Market in a few hours.  You can feel the stress on the dock as the boats are rushing to get all this stuff ready.  We were up last night after midnight and probably will be tonight as well, but we are ready and will leave tomorrow morning.  Some things on the list just won’t get done, but the important ones are covered.  You’re never as ready as you’d like to be.  At some point, you just go.

The nice folks from Mexican Immigration gave us the thumbs up to leave

So, follow us…We’ll get back to blogging every day or so as we voyage across the Pacific.  I’m trying to get the position reporting program to reliably work.  If I can, great, but if not, I’ll add Lattitude/Longitude numbers and with a little effort on Google Earth, you’ll be able to track us if the program won’t.

Our Zarpe