This is the view from our "apartment" window...and I use the term apartment very loosely too!
This is also taken from our apartment window. This would be the local coffee vendor...neither sleet nor hail...well you know the rest!
Take a look at the current going over his foot...this would be the road in front of our marina complex.
After the rain! This is all the plywood panels for our boat headliner. They all had to be painted and then we've covered them with thin foam and then vinyl.
They will all be installed and then trimmed with teak strips. They will look great, but a fantastic amount of work. We had to do this because we had to remove various deck fixtures for repair and replacement during our new gel coat.
These are some of the guys beside Fortuitous getting ready to start the day. We have 3 Jorges, Carlos, Willi, Blake, and Flavit, plus Tuty usually working on our boat...a big crew!
This is Flavit and Jorge applying gel coat to the cabin sides.
This is Carlos.
This is Willi, which is short for Wellington...a good Spanish name.
They use whatever is available to mix up paint etc. They are all very resourceful.
Here are the sheets of plywood ready for vinyl covering...oops, missed one.
Willi and Jorge applying gel coat to the back cabin sides. What a crummy job this would be!!
Flavit and Carlos hiding in the shade and contemplating what's next!
This is why I say it would be a crummy job!!
So...we had holes cut in our aft cabin so we could install our new hatches. They were covered with a tarp...and it rained like hell overnight!!! When we arrived at the boat the next morning, I thought Ralph would have a heart attack!! Over the large hole, the tarp had filled with water, then finally pulled away from the tie and dumped all the water (and the rest of the rainfall) over and into our nav station!! Amazingly, the nav station top is unbelievably water-tight!! Unfortunately, it was full of about 3" of water! Ralph lost it; I sent him away, bailed and cleaned up. These are some of the things drying out in our room.
Window/port painting number something or other...it took at least 3 tries to get the right colour or deal with rain ruining the right colour. This is not it!
Blake and Jorge taping to paint the bowsprit.
Just when we thought we were getting somewhere, one of the Jorges thought the deck felt a bit spongy...we explored and guess what??
He was right!! We found this big ugly mess...more to repair!
This is the view from inside the lazarette...take by someone much smaller than Ralph!
One of the Jorges grinds down all the fibreglass to a nice smooth finish. Another terrible job to do!
Meanwhile, on Fortuitous' aft deck, the new propane locker is being constructed.
An Tuty works hard teaching us how to install vinyl on the plywood panels. These will be installed in the ceiling.
Flavit looks on as Carlos tries to find out how bad the new-found hole in our deck is.
We have such a great crew, and the yard workers are so great, we decided to order in pizza for a thank you meal. Maurice, the manager of Manzanillo supplied the drinks for the festivities.
These are a few of our crew having a well deserved break.
This is the new arrangement in our cockpit. No more doors going into the aft cabin, a new seat and small lazarette instead.
This is me checking out all my varnishing. These are about half the teak strips needed to put our new ceiling in place. Two coats of varnish-minimum.
Here are some more of them and our bow decoration (which needed 8 coats of varnish).
This is the new arrangement in our cockpit. No more doors going into the aft cabin, a new seat and small lazarette instead.
This is me checking out all my varnishing. These are about half the teak strips needed to put our new ceiling in place. Two coats of varnish-minimum.
Here are some more of them and our bow decoration (which needed 8 coats of varnish). 
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