March 20, 2016. Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico. Voyeurs.

All week we have admired this large boat, which was tied up in front of our balcony.  From our third floor balcony, we were able to watch the boat and the people without them ever seeing us,  which made us true voyeurs.   Our attachment to the boat, which was named MY WAY, was such that we looked up everything about the boat on the internet.   It is 123 feet long and 23 feet wide and requires a crew of 4.  The boat was refurbished by a Russian in 2003 and now is available for charter.

When we first moved into our apartment in Paradise Village,  nothing was happening on the boat so we just admired it.  On Monday, two young men cleaned the boat inside and out, which continued on Tuesday.  That boat was spotless.  On Wednesday, one young lady with a pony tail and a clipboard wrote down lots and lots of words.  Along with her were two young men, one with her and the other with the boat.  They seemed to be inventorying each item on the boat.  On Thursday, two young women and another young man moved into the boat.  They left for dinner with two other friends, perhaps the two who wrote down all the words.  It would have been much easier for us had we been able to hear what they were saying!!.

At 4:00 on Friday morning,  I heard the boat motor, so I got up to investigate the action.  First the young men removed the electrical and water lines and stored them on the boat, a not insignificant event.  By now, the two young ladies were holding walkie talkies and standing at both sides on the rear.  Finally, a man removed the lines and the big boat slowly left the slip and slowly turned up the channel to the sea.  And they were gone.

We had decided that the young man in charge was not the owner.  He was too young.  We think the four were the crew and were either taking the boat to take to another harbor or to pick up the owners for an excursion.  We had great fun being voyeurs with the MY WAY.  Now the slip is filled with a smaller boat registered in Toronto.  We want to know how the boat got from Toronto to Vallarta.  But we will never know.