Sunday, May 8, 2016Rather than fight the current, we opt to “sleep in” until 9. Then we’re back on the Grenville northward using any current in our favor. Gray turns to light clouds, then sun and wind as the morning becomes afternoon.In Nor…
May 6 – 8, 2016 Pensacola
May 6 – It was kinda chilly when we got up and it’s still just 65 after 9 am. We decided to ride our bikes to the Pensacola Hardware store because Josh needed a part and this hardware store has all kinds of things. Yup, it had what he…
[MVStarr] We Are Back Home at SBMC
Starr departed Kaneohe, Oahu on Friday April 10 and Arrived home at Salmon Bay Marine Center on Saturday morning April 23.
Details of the Passage: 13 days
Distance – 2430.nm
Hours running time: 313 hrs
Genset hours, 169 hrs
SOG average -7 .75 kn
Fuel – 1.15 g/nm
(This is higher fuel consumption than normal. Our standard cruising speed is 1450 rpm; 5 of 13 days,we ran at 1600 rpm in order to help drive into heavy head seas.)
Part I – Fixing Things: We hurried home in order to be ready to host Suma Yacht Club for Opening Day at Seattle Yacht Club on May 7, but we had some work to do to get Starr ready.
1. Locate and repair the water leak into our main guest stateroom:
Lexan Cover on Portlight
Don built a dam against the stateroom’s port light and flooded it slowly with a hose until the source of the leak became apparent. 
Don built a dam
Port light pad eye that caused the leak
The water test showed that a stainless steel pad eye was poorly bedded. When we did the refit, we used Sikaflex 291 bedding rather than 3M 5200.
We had also used fine threaded screws that were too small. After the water test Don removed all 14 pad eyes, cleaned them off, roughed them up with course sandpaper to give more tooth, re-bedded them with 5200, and then used #12 self tapping screws.
When Don turned the boat around to re-bred the starboard pad eyes he found that we were missing the 5 ft x 1ft x1/2 inch Lexan port light storm cover. YES, we had it on when we departed Kaneohe, Hawaii.
Missing the storm cover and 4 of 6 padeyes on the starboard portlight .
There is a 6-inch vertical scratch just below the front of the storm cover which suggests that we might have hit something that caused us to lose the stormcover.
2. Diagnosis of unfamiliar noise coming from the prop shaft:
While turning the boat around Don noticed a noise from the propeller. Upon inspecting the propeller and shaft, we found that the Spur F2 line cutting V block was torn apart. http://www.spursmarine.com
We had picked up nets in the prop twice on our passage home, but what is confusing is that the cutting blades on the Spurs don’t have any nicks nor do they show any other damage. We identified the problem, but will have to replace the broken holding block and the spur assembly when we haul out in the Fall.
Spurs
Trashed V block- missing a ½” thick section
The divers from Emerald City Diving
Then we spent a lot of time Cleaning and Polishing to be ready for the Main Event!
Part II – The Main Event: Seattle Yacht Club Opening Day with our friends from Suma Yacht Club It was as glorious day in Seattle on Saturday, May 7.
Sharry, Azusa (our Japanese daughter), Donna (Don’s sister), Captain Don
Summa YC Commodore Kodera driving Starr
Having a lot of Fun!
Everybody Wave
Summa YC decorated Boat – Escape to Kobe
Azusa with her new friends Erico and Kentaro
The Little Captain
Picture Time
A Boatload of Happy People
AND A GREAT TIME WAS HAD BY ALL!
[MVStarr] We Are Back Home at SBMC
Starr departed Kaneohe, Oahu on Friday April 10 and Arrived home at Salmon Bay Marine Center on Saturday morning April 23. Details of the Passage: 13 days Distance – 2430.nm Hours running time: 313 hrs Genset hours, 169 hrs SOG average -7 .75 kn Fuel – 1.15 g/nm (This is higher fuel consumption than normal. Our standard cruising speed is 1450 rpm; 5 of 13 days,we ran at 1600 rpm in order to help drive into heavy head seas.) Part I – Fixing Things: We hurried home in order t…
Boat Projects
Soverel Harbour Marina has been an excellent stop to replenish our boat spares and supplies, address Jennifer’s shoulder injury, and just relax and enjoy a slower pace. While here, we’ve also completed a ton of boat projects, ranging from battery replacement to canvas work to automation systems. Below are the majority of the projects we’ve…
No, not yet
Not really working on the boat full time yet. I’ve sold my soul to the Gubment till the end of the month. 🙂 I have been acquiring materials that’ll be needed to get some of the underwater hardware ready.Some of the stainless for skeg & rudd…
May 7 – Great Bridge, VA
Great Bridge Historical Park Free Dock
“A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.” —St. Francis of Assisi
We’ve spent the last two days moving through the ICW in a remote section of northern North Carolina. There isn’t a lot to see or do between Oriental on the Neuse River and Great Bridge, Virginia. It’s more than 150 miles through man-made cuts and open sounds and bays. Even on a sunny, nice day there really isn’t much to look at, but this time it was wet, cold and dreary. Stan drove from the lower helm most of the time.
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