02 32.247 S, 80 56.533 W
This morning we made a brief stop at Salinas. We were seeing a leak in the aft head and we wanted to check it out. It turned out to be a fitting on the top of the water heater was failing and leaking. Rich tightened it up but we will have to make a better repair in Callao. It is not a) life threatening, b) engine threatening, c) serious and d) something we can't live with. As we have been motorsailing so far, we thought we would quickly stop in and buy some more diesel. It was a good thought but when we went to the marina and found out that we had to have an agent and that we would have to check back into Ecuador, buy fuel and then check out again with at least a charge of $200 plus the agent's fee of $50 with no assurance that there would be no other fees and that this could be accomplished today so we could continue to Peru, we decided that we did not need the extra fuel and we could continue.
The whole stop cost us a few hours of time but we got to see one of the submarines of the Ecuadorian Navy. Now we are sailing across the Golfo de Guayaquil, conserving fuel and heading to Peru.
Cheers
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