Contigo is now our boat

The closing on the boat happened on Thursday around noon and the paperwork was sent out on Friday. It hasn't gotten here yet, of course. And there are still things to finish setting up. The U.S. Coast Guard paperwork got submitted but will take at least a couple of months to process. Then we can use that to apply for our Ship Station License for all the electronic stuff on the boat. WE already got our online FCC radio license. We'll also have to register all the emergency radio buoy stuff with yet another U.S. govt organization. Then we also have to process the paperwork in Colorado for buying the boat, our home port is listed as Del Norte, Colorado...... I think we'd need a MUCH deeper river to sail the boat up to the house. :D

We still have to set up for dry storage and work on the boat while we move forward from home with no way to get there to work on it. :D So I'll contact the sales guy at the Marina so I can get properly hooked up with the folks that own the boatyard where Contigo currently sits. And we have to work with the Marina down in San Carlos for the Temporary Import Permit that lets us keep the boat in Mexico for 10 years for the whopping sum of about $75.

We have to purchase insurance for it, required by Mexico to be on the water, it's liability insurance and not too expensive each year. And we have to get started working on our Temporary Mexican Citizenship application. Yes, there is such a thing.

There are several things we want to do to the boat for cruising and comfort there in the Sea of Cortez: Air conditioning, a blizzard of choices for that. We might go with something a little more expensive that uses half the energy so we can still use it judiciously while "on the hook"; I want a bow thruster on it for better/easier parking and that'll have to be done in the boat yard; and the boat needs an antifouling "bottom job" to keep the marine growth off it while sailing. We've found a place that does a copper treatment of the hull that has reliably lasted 10 years as opposed to the usual 2 years you get from ablative paint; I have to replace the house battery bank and perhaps upgrade the solar; and we'll have to install the fancy "MacPack" sail storage system that the previous owner (Chris) bought but didn't have time to install yet.

Of course, virtually none of that can get done while we're all on "lock down". So we'll get stuff in place and prepare. I'm taking an at home navigation class, we're both working on a Spanish class and there's a docking class we're studying for in May that we'll take on the water.

So we're sitting home but not sitting still.

How Y'all?