First of all I would like to thanks the panel of decydents and then my dogs, and the fishermans and powerboaters (for buying so much fuel), and at last to that person on the port bow .... in that small dighy ...uppsss! to late for him. Anyway, Thank you
hey! I will share it with all of you who will sail with me (if any sailing will happen to begin with!!!!) to Bermuda and VI sometimes in November ... lol
thanks for congrats, and can someone nominate me to the Academy ?
I have some rum, we can celebrate!
:-)
RockDAWG,
Before we practice it would be good if you can surf and study the following: http://www.ukhalsey.com/LearningCenter/ssIndex.asp
It is few very good video lessons, but you need to consider that many times we dont have this many hands to help.
It is good to see it for everyone as well.
Have fun
capkris
Hey, interesting thread. I have been gone for a couple of weeks and while catching up I check in once in a while. I usually see what Alex has been up to because I know he will be stirring the pot somehow.
I read Alex's response to CaptKris about the slave like conditions he put his crew through in June. You know, I forgot just how bad it did look when I first got there. Stuff everywhere, lots of it waiting to be put on the boat, lots being fixed by workers scrambling everywhere, and the owner in his straw hat waving his hands and gesturing to anyone that looked his way.
It was kind of over whelming at first glance, knowing that we were leaving the next morning.
Like good captains everywhere, Alex just filled me with caffeine and alcohol and put me to work. When I found a problem he just said "No Problem!" and got it fixed. I arrived at about 9:00 AM to find a boat that looked like an explosion had happened inside. Stuff everywhere. By 6:00 that evening everything was set up for cruising, that beautiful dodger was on, his beautiful wife had brought us provisions, everything was stowed, and all we needed to do was wait for Val to arrive to fix the head. Oh, and we spent two hours painting a shark...priorities you know.
Holiday Inn? No, food was way to good. I do think that my berth was larger than the room I had in Paris last week. We had a great trip, learned a lot of Portuguese history, and made good friends. Were we worried about sailing with Alex? Not in the least! We knew that Fred could handle any problems if his father could not. Always good to have back up.
CaptK I hope that your crew can say the same good things at the end of your trip. We sailed, we ate well, we laughed, and we made good friends. Whats not to like?
You silly man you....that was nice of you, thanks.... altough you took $30 to say nice things about me...Val did it for $15 ans an old Playboy magazine....
Hey the ST60 book showed up...you were right, it would surface once we stripped her...nice...it was at the end of the book shelf, inside another magazine I had there. Cool, thanks for the copies though...
And you were right about the auto pilot. What happens is because I point at less than 25º Deg, the autopilot thinks we will gybe and does not allow the auto tack to do the tack. It first steers the difference to lee, then you can hit the auto tack again...or simply just do it twice and it will auto tack...THANK YOU...
I also changed the factory preset tack angle from 100º deg to 60 degº and works like a charm.
There's a vast difference between having to spend a single day getting the boat prepped for a voyage, and spending the better part of a week doing same. Working 9:00 to 6:00 and taking two hours off to paint a shark on the keel, means that less than a standard business day was spent working on the boat. From Kacper's thread, located here, seven full days were spent cleaning up the boat and doing routine maintenance, versus prepping the boat for a voyage. Installing a new engine and re-building the exhaust system for it does not qualify as prepping a boat for a voyage—that is pure boat yard work, pure and simple. Comparing a day's work of prepping the boat—stowing the supplies and putting on the anchor roller, windlass and dodger—to re-powering and repainting a boat isn't really sensible. Anyone crewing on a boat would expect to help stow supplies, mount dodgers, and such, but repowering and repainting the entire boat is way beyond what is reasonable to expect.
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Very soon we learned that the engine wasn't installed yet, and the prop shaft, a new engine was coming and a new prop shaft, prop, zincs, whole deal.
We spent a whole week putting in a new engine, and rebuilding the exhaust system from scratch, the water exchange system.
We re-painted the whole boat. We unplugged throughulls, re-organized the whole boat.
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her going when she oughta fall down, tells you she's hurting 'fore she keens. Makes her a home.
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Actually SD, 2 weeks before that, you and I met in Portsmouth remember?
And before Tom and Val arrived, I had spent the 2 weeks the boat was in the dry, painting it (not me but the yacht service company I hired), fixing stuff, the keel and rudder were modified, remember?, Installing the new boom stuff, etc.
So there was in reality 2 weeks of 12 hour day work. Tom and Val, arrived on the last day, after I confirmed with them the date of arrival so they didn't have to work, as they travelled for fun.
They did however work hard, specially the first day at sea, when I had to install the spreader lights, as when the boat was in the dry I could not do for safety reasons
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