to La Cruz/PV with short overnight stops in Turtle Bay, Mag Bay, Bahia Asuncion and Cabo. The trip down the outside was pretty mild with a lot of 8 to 10 knot stuff so the motor got a pretty good workout. We always want to get past the Isla Cedros bite while the getting is good so we motored sailed to that point. Once we passed Cedros we got some wind an were able to sail. It's a good thing because we fouled a fuel filter and needed to sail while I resolved that little issue. I noticed that the engine started to surge but the vacuum gauges were indicating that the filters were OK. I changed from the primary to the secondary filters but it didn't make any difference. By the time I did the switch and screwed around wondering why it wasn't doing any good the engine quite. I was faked out because of the gauges so started looking around for an air leak or fouled air intake. Finding neither, I changed both of the filters on the primary and then thought about the filter on the engine. I changed it as well, Now I had to bleed the engine and this was taking longer then usual so I started wondering if I was over looking something. I was about ready to give up when I heard the first sign that the engine wanted to start. I was afraid I was going to burn out the started it was taking so long. She finely fired and it sounded like an angle singing! Here we were on the outside of the Baja California peninsula with a broken down engine. Not a happy feeling! All was good for a day and then the engine started to surge again. Of course I figured it was fuel but then I noticed that the tachometer was turning on and off. That had to be an alternator issue. I said "screw it" and unplugged the regulator and plugged in the regulator to the port alternator and off we went. We have two alternators and run one at a time and use the other as a back up just in case something like this happens. We were running along fine for a day until about 2 in the morning when the belt broke to the port alternator! Geez, come on!. Now I had to change the belt except when I got into the spare parts to get the belt I found that both of the spare belts were for the starboard alternator. Shit! Now I had to trouble shoot the problem with the starboard alternator at sea rather then at the dock in PV like I was going to do. It turned out to be a bad voltage sense wire so I jury rigged a fused jumper past the bad wire and we were off again. All this after living on the hook for a month prior to departing for Mexico. Add to that, my knee is giving me fits so I'm going to have to see a doctor down here to find out whats going on with that! Welcome to cruising. "Fixing your boat in exotic places" needs to be changed to "fixing your boat and your body in exotic places". Hey, we're sitting here with a Cuba Libra in Banderas Bay so it's all good.