The day before yesterday, in the afternoon we docked at Whangarei marina. It was a long way up from the bay where we stayed overnight in the first bay on the east side just inside the mouth of the Hatea river. In the morning, we had strong winds when lifting the anchor but all worked…

Yesterday we started sailing north! As the company, I contacted for help with the new GA200 antennae for my Raymarine system didn’t even call me back on Friday and the weather window is good only for Saturday and Sunday, I decide to sail to Wangharei. The marina reserved a berth for us. Being there I…

… what Raymarine thinks about getting antennae cables inside a boat which means the cable has to go through a cable gland. Yesterday, I thought I can get the new cable through the cable gland of the old GPS antennae cable. However the new cable has a connector with an almost 20 mm diameter for…

It’s already the 22. May and almost noon again. Bread dough is autolyzing, Joe works covering the glasses for sources spices with light blocking filmi had to make a dozen of phone calls and write a bunch of emails. Sometimes I’m wondering if I’m a sailor or a one-person admin department. Now just a short…

Yesterday a Onan technician was here to fix a small electrical problem. I had him to come to also check the engine control board. Today I fixed a small seawater leak at the sacrificial anode of the heat exchanger. It was easier then I thought. About half an hour. Then came the moment of truth.…

Today the sea is very smooth. Wind waves of 1 (0 +10 cm high) and a swell which is hardly felt. With only 1700 RPM she runs almost 7 KN. The sky gets mostly likely fully overcasted. This the sea looks grey. Not as nice now compared to when we started this morning. There is…

As the genset doesn’t run yet I decided to go to Auckland for check & repair by the Onan service provider. I also want to a few other things in Auckland. As we had yesterday SE wind we had wind and current against us we reduced our speed. However my decision to have the bow…

Genset – I cleaned all contacts of the cable harness and built it in again together with three parts of the enclosure needed to test run the genset. In the meantime I gained experience with this work. Sometimes, during my work yesterday, I was thinking about my student days when I fixed my cars where…

Paul came by yesterday to have a look at the cable harness. Although all looked good, he removed the isolation of 4 cables being crimped to each other and crimped them stronger to make sure that there is not bad contact inside which can pop up any time. This triggered me today to look for…

…is the sound of a nicely running genset” I said to John after it was running for already 5 – 6 min, producing 220 V, and charging the batteries. The moment I finished my sentence the genset stopped showing the error code “not enough oil pressure”. I checked the oil out was at maximum, and…