We finally finished the boat. Well almost. We need to put some hardware back on it and install an engine. A new top end for our engine was shipped to Honduras several days ago but it’s still in San Pedro. Apparently the person picking it up needed some sort of paper work that he didn’t have. I think someone from Paya Bay went to San Pedro with some paper work in an attempt to get the motor out of customs. If they are successful, the motor will be trucked to La Ceiba and then ferried to Roatan. If all that works, we’ll try to get a mechanic to install it onto the lower unit.
Not that’s an entire new story. The drug police showed up a few days ago and want to confiscate our old engine. We don’t have any paperwork for it and they believe it was used for running drugs. There’s a boat on the dock that was used for drugs and they confiscated it yesterday. They sent 6 guys here to repair the boat just so they could haul it away. The police were told we have a public dock and someone just left the boat at our dock one day. Sounds good to me. Frankly, I have no idea about any of this so I keep my mouth shut and stay out of the way when the police are here. They were here for at least 8 hours yesterday and I never said a word to them. I just kept working on our boat.
If they take our old wrecked motor, we may be in trouble. We need some of the parts from it to use for our new top end. We have 11 guests coming including the owner, his family and my wife and as of Friday morning we have no engine.
Hurray, Gerri is arriving tomorrow. Even if the dive boat isn't running, we'll have a great time just being together.
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