But, there is always a but, sometimes even more than one. What happened today? As assumed, the battery went flat yesterday. Charging until this morning from 240 V shore power filled the battery sufficiently to bleed the 2nd fuel line. Happy moment No. 3. Then I pushed the start button to with the intention to…

… delays the happy moment I’m working for since quite a while. Since quite a while my main work and my main brain occupation revolves around the genset. All is assembled and connected except of the right part of the genset enclosure which I keep open to be able to see if all hoses are…

Right now the rain shower and wind gust is so strong that I can’t even open the engine room hatch to go in quickly and close it again. Wind today is typically around 15 KN, but guys reach 22 – 23 KN. In this weather, it would be nice and cozy in the cabin, reading…

Yesterday, during the day the wind was pretty strong. Most of the times in the 30 KN range with gusts up to 40 KN. MaRe rocked in her 8 docking lines but was always safe. In the late afternoon the genoa of an about 40 ft mono hull broke open. The cause of unknown to…

The wind grew stronger during yesterday and last night. During the day, wind speeds went up into the mid 20 KN range with frequent guest in the 30 KN range. Then later it increased into the high 20 KN range with gusts in the mid 30 KN range. During the night it might have been…

Since yesterday late afternoon the wind increased. For most of the times I see 15 – 20 KN at the display. However, I also saw wind speeds towards 30 KN. On top of this, a lot of rain pours down on us poor people. Outside, at sea there are wind speeds of up to 50…

Yesterday, MaRe was relaunched on a very short notice. Now she back in the berth were she was before. I missed Terry’s helping hands on the floating pier when I had to dock against a rather strong wind from about 45 – 90 deg PRT. But she is safe against winds from all directions. 3…

Since yesterday morning it’s raining and raining and raining sqand will continue until tomorrow morning – if the GFS forecast is right. We’ll see! Today on the way back from the supermarket. It rained cats and dogs and we got pretty wet despite rain jackets we used. When we left the supermarket we met our…

My OBM is finally back again. On Sunday I picked her up at Auckland airport. The day before I stopped working at 1300 to pickup the ordered rental car and drove to Auckland to spend the evening with friends. One of them I haven’t seen since the earlier 90s. A very nice evening! From the…

Coppercoating is done! – I wanted to pull the upper line of coppercoat 20 cm higher above the normal waterline. This because experience shows that there is fouling growing even above the waterline when sailing long distances and staying in bays. Removing this fouling on the normal gelcoat surface is pretty difficult to impossible. I…