Date September 17, 2011 Day 80Departure Henry Harbor Marina, Henry, IL 8:45 amArrival East Port Marina, E. Peoria, IL 1:15 pm Miles 30.9 C…
Hair, Eyes, and Locks
This has been an interesting week of diversity. On Wednesday I started to see headlights in my right eye. I called my ophthalmologist in Houston and he said to come right in not realizing that we were half way across the country. Southwest airlines complied and got us here by Thursday night and on Friday […]
Bowthruster Buoyancy Impact
I’m considering adding a small bow thruster to my Freedom 33 cat ketch. In addition to the weight of the unit and tunnel I’m wondering if the water in the tunnel reduces buoyancy by the weight of the water given the volume of the tunnel or if I have to double that as if I […]
#55 Milestones and Mistakes
We gave each other an exuberant “high-five” as the Golden Gate came into view. We had completed our longest passage to date; 822 nautical miles in 100 hours, just the two of us. Our goal was to see if we could successfully manage multiple overnights maintaining constant watch without additional crew. Once again, weather became a factor. Compounding that, I made a critical mistake resulting in parlous suspense at a very bad time. As much as I swore never to let it happen to me, it did. In t…
The Montebellos
We arrived at the southern channel into the Montebello group of islands at 4pm and as we entered the reef between Dot and Daisy Islands we had a whale come right across our bow only just missed her!! It was then only a few mile north to Main Bay where we anchored for the night on the low tide. Because of the Nuclear Bombing back in the 50’s, we were unable to go ashore so the following day we moved south, very slowly to the Stephenson Channel, during the high tide. There isn’t a lot of …
#55 Milestones and Mistakes
We gave each other an exuberant “high-five” as the Golden Gate came into view. We had completed our longest passage to date; 822 nautical miles in 100 hours, just the two of us. Our goal was to see if we could successfully manage multip…
#55 Milestones and Mistakes
We gave each other an exuberant “high-five” as the Golden Gate came into view. We had completed our longest passage to date; 822 nautical miles in 100 hours, just the two of us. Our goal was to see if we could successfully manage multip…
The Montebellos
We arrived at the southern channel into the Montebello group of islands at 4pm and as we entered the reef between Dot and Daisy Islands we had a whale come right across our bow only just missed her!!
It was then only a few mile north to Main Bay whe…
Saturday, September 17, 2011
This is the shiny, new tank. (That’s Al in the background.)This is the corrosion on the inside of the old tank.This is the old tank.This afternoon John and I took a ride over to Al’s shop to see both the old and the new fuel tanks. When you look insi…
‘Round and ’round we go again
and again.One of the toughest parts of assembling one of these boats, other than falling on your head is bending the bottom panels around the forms at the bow.There’s a lot of tension built up in those panels when you ratchet them into shape. I’ve run …
