16 Nov - We woke to a lovely morning in Ensenada with the sun shining bright - taking this as a good omen we packed up the boat and headed out around 09:00. Once clear of the harbour we noticed that we were in quite a gathering of people heading for this weather window. At least 8 other boats were heading out from either cruiseport or Coral Marina.  Therer was a bit of a breeze to start with so we started to put out the Mainsail - only to have it jam on us  (!!!!).  We had tried to furl the mainsail with a higher boom the last time and this had obviously not worked!   For the next trhee hours, as we motored towards the gap between the mainland and Santos Todos islands Heidi and I worked to free the sail and finally, as we passed through the gap and the wind died, we managed to unfurl it fully, adjust the topping lift tension to lower the boom again, and furl the sail properly.  First problem solved. 

Of course, she is be ture though and as soon as we sat down and congratulated ourselves on sorting that out, there was another ominous dip in revs from the engine.    We carried on, hoping that it would clear andover the next several hours we crossed our fingers and toes.  No such luck, the fuel starvation issue got worse and worse and we ended up changing course and heading into St Tomas, arriving just as the sun was setting.  The anchorage was very rolley but at least we managed to (gently) set the anchor.  It was then time to tear apart the whole fuel system to look again for our problem! Before that though we had to launch the dinghy and set it up to tow us if needed - the swell was pushing us towards the rocks and if the anchor started to slip when we had the engine in bits we needed a back up. 

That done we dove into the engine cleared the pipe from the fuel tank to the primary filter, and then took apart the primary filter.  It was completely blocked up with crud!  Having cleaned this out and put it back together, we cleared all the rest of the hoses in the low pressure system (they were all clean) and, after successfully starting and running the engine again, we eventually got to settle down to a meal around 8pm.  We're really hoping we have solved all the fuel issues now! It was an early night for both of us after diner occasionallyl disturbed by the boat 'getting her roll on"  It was good to see another boat that pulled in too though and that they were rolling just as badly (what is it about misery loves company?)