tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36857629712991318142024-03-18T11:29:56.804-07:00ELEPHANTS CHILDUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger712125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-36113654018261590832019-09-17T09:12:00.003-07:002019-09-17T09:12:59.081-07:00Forever sailing in the Caribbean.Hi <br />
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My name is Hope Jack and I am John Dunckers niece.<br />
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I am sorry to post this but unfortunately John was found dead on his boat on the 18th August 2019.<br />
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Dizzy who has been a main feature of this blog is now with a lovely lady where he will spend the rest of his days on dry land.<br />
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John will now forever be sailing the Caribbean which is what he loved to do as we spread his ashes in the sea of the coast of Martinique.<br />
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RIP John you will be sorely missed.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-18561072273082542102019-08-02T19:11:00.000-07:002019-08-02T19:11:02.217-07:00Good news on the stormI t looks like it is going more to the North and Antigua is getting worried.<br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-30304801685977180862019-08-01T07:05:00.002-07:002019-08-01T07:05:55.518-07:00HIP SURGERY ?Looks like I am heading to the orthopedic clinic next week. What ever I have is crippling me and I can not risk any sort of passage at the moment. The good news is that if it is a hip joint problem the fix is a routine op and I will be up and walking in a day. Possibly out in three.<br />
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Kart racing climbing scuba skiing stockcar racing hang gliding sailing across oceans scrambling trials riding general looning about on all sorts of motorcycles have stressed my skeletal frame over the years. I count myself lucky to have made it this far with no joint replacements.<br />
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Why am I waiting well this is heading my way.<br />
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NOAA is up to 70% on it making to storm status.<br />
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Most of the tracks show it going North of us.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-14416866821122609192019-07-23T19:34:00.001-07:002019-07-23T19:34:24.492-07:00THE BEST LAID PLANSI had planned to sail down to St Lucia from Marin in Martinique on Wednesday 24 th July. Went to lift the anchor but the windlass was dead. <br />
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IT IS A SOLDERED JOINT 3 DISSIMILAR METALS AT DECK LEVEL. I SLATHER IT WITH GOOP REALLY GOOD 3 M 4200 GOOP BUT AFTER A YEAR OR SO THE JOINTS TURN TO GREEN GOO AND STOP CONDUCTING. <br />
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i WILL TRY TO POT THE NEXT ONE IN EPOXY BEFORE I FIT IT.<br />
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ANYWAY Fixed that, topped off the tanks at the fuel dock and checked out at the same time. The French islands have this sorted with check in .out computers in docks and bars. Back at anchor and just thinking about lifting the dinghy when I was felled by a wild pain in my back.<br />
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Grrrrh A couple of hours later and it is mostly OK.<br />
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I will see how I feel in the morning.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-20968392555496919522019-07-15T18:23:00.000-07:002019-07-15T18:23:01.227-07:00THINGS THAT GO BANG IN THE AFTERNOONSomething went BANG close by rousing me out of my sleepy afternoon book. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Dglf4QWQ2txSSv5-fLopx0ADjzXtIgdNQH0taYycl5VwrR6IDWzR_-J8myYgLMJui0DPEbKxNTIOM4Tma_WKmdXLeIBGEp-VCu8ttMdgV9EZ5AadF1a3TavBUmiEESsr684703QpQjA/s1600/2-IMG_0301.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Dglf4QWQ2txSSv5-fLopx0ADjzXtIgdNQH0taYycl5VwrR6IDWzR_-J8myYgLMJui0DPEbKxNTIOM4Tma_WKmdXLeIBGEp-VCu8ttMdgV9EZ5AadF1a3TavBUmiEESsr684703QpQjA/s320/2-IMG_0301.JPG" width="320" height="240" data-original-width="640" data-original-height="480" /></a></div><br />
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A big ferry had broken loose and hit a boat near mine. <br />
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A French fire drill followed. The biggish local boat got itself tied alongside for a hip tow but managed to get a rope around it's prop. Someone on the ferry deployed a stern anchor but just upwind of an anchored boat. <br />
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By now we had a small squadron of dinghies full of arm waving shouty cruisers and locals. Random dinghy pushing resulted in the ferry drifting sown on the bowsprit of an adjacent boat. <br />
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This was followed by some sideways pushing random anchor deployments and lots more shouting. Finally someone official arrived issued instructions to tow the boat from the bow which worked.<br />
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Meanwhile I had prepared to drop my anchor and chain if it dragged down on me which looked pretty likely at one point. The chain was buoyed so I could retrieve it. My second anchor was as always ready to go with the rode flaked out on deck. Fortunately nothing was required and I could return to my adventures in time. <br />
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Going to treat myself to this shirt<br />
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By lunchtime I felt I was getting somewhere.<br />
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The drains got fixed and no obvious leaks, more importantly the outlet is supported so if there is a failure it will not sink the boat.<br />
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New fan belt fitted, I watch the belt tension closely as it is a single belt system on a 100 amp alternator which is pushing it. If the belt is at all slack it slips if it slips it has to be replaced.<br />
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While I was doing this work I spotted 2 hose clips that needed replacing which I did.<br />
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Sealed the center board tube to deck fitting.<br />
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Sealed the leaking through deck fittings for mast shrouds.<br />
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Removed dismantled cleaned and crack tested my inner forestay deck fitting. Paying particular attention the eye fitting the blacksmith had worked on.<br />
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It maybe time for an afternoon snooze. <br />
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We are getting large amounts of Sahara dust.<br />
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Enough to drop the visibility and to give anybody with respiratory problems a hard time.<br />
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Also time to swab the decks me boy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-33100597787252280572019-06-12T13:51:00.001-07:002019-06-12T13:53:30.868-07:00OUTBOARD AND BATTERY TROUBLES.Ever since I got back I have had outboard problems. The frustrating thing is it runs well for a few minutes everytime I do ANYTHING to it then it starts coughing and spluttering and stopping. It has always got me back but it runs so badly it clearly has a problem. <br />
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New fuel. More new fuel. New fuel line. New fuel connectors. New fuel tank. New fuel filter. New plugs. The carb has been cleaned multiple times.<br />
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Well I have admitted defeat, I am waving the white flag. My big 18 hp outboard is relegated to the rail as I can not trust it to run reliably and I can not find the problem. I think I have tracked it down to the fuel pump but it won't come apart and I need new diaphragms and nobody stocks them down here. My next 5 anchorages are very open to the west and an outboard failure could lead to me being blown to Panama. In the last year 4 people have disappeared this way <br />
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So we have a new egg beater to see me down to Grenada. <br />
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My battery bank has developed a bad cell and I run a series parallel set up with all 6 interconnected it pulls down the other 5. I can reconfigure the bank to run on 4 and did this but it looks like they are about done so it is break out another boat buck and buy 6 new ones. <br />
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The local dealer had 6 and they were fresh so I humped 372 lbs of new batteries out to the boat. Lifted them aboard. Pulled 372 lbs of old batteries out and humped in 372 lbs of new. Wired everything up and woke up next morning slightly sore but glad to hear my fridge running normally and not cycling through it's low battery routines. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-67866255083190935732019-04-29T14:20:00.001-07:002019-04-29T14:20:53.102-07:00BACK ON THE BOATAfter a long and very tiring overnight flight I am back on the boat.<br />
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Following the pattern of the last few months I am back to fixing boat problems. This time it is the dinghy engine. I have had failures of the fuel hose connections both ends and the tank pickup. I thought I had fixed all of them with a new tank and a bodge at the motor where I removed the complex push on metal connection and just connected the hoses together with clips and held them in place with zip ties. <br />
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I drop the dink in and check that the engine starts. NOPE Deader than a dodo. My engine is a Nissan [ Badge engineered Tohatsu ] 18 hp 2 stroke and generally starts first pull.<br />
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I remembered that the last high speed run before I left to go skiing had been punctuated by a couple of coughs which is often a sign of a fuel problem.So I pull the hose off the lift pump and sure enough what comes out is not petrol but water.<br />
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So I drain the tank into a container using a Baja filter which can separate the water from the petrol. <br />
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This was what was caught by the filter. Initially it was an emulsion but it settled out overnight with some interesting stuff on the interface between the two liquids. <br />
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Poured the good stuff back into the tank drained the carb and pumped the fuel line clear of water.<br />
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I needed the dink in working order because I was due to pick up Dizzy. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-87611760258125657652019-04-25T13:17:00.001-07:002019-04-25T13:17:32.571-07:00LIGHTNINGSuper scary time. Riding the long chair up to the top of Snowbird when it all goes black and the lift cables start buzzing. <br />
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A minute later we get the first lightning strike.<br />
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I was glad when I got off the lift and was advised to shelter in the resturuant. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-64325040795381473112019-04-24T13:20:00.000-07:002019-04-24T13:20:16.734-07:00Sunny days at SnowbirdThe heavy snow clouds and strong winds have blown away. So no more ice in my beard, <br />
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So Alta is closed but Snowbird has some steep North facing slopes that hold the snow and they may make it through to the 4th of July.<br />
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Meanwhile there was some Easter going ons.<br />
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It was a little weird driving down into the valley and seeing the cherry blossom out.<br />
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As soon as I got on the chair it started snowing.The viz was not to bad so I practiced styling for a while on an easy slope. <br />
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Much less beard ice build up.<br />
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-78983036394048968962019-04-11T20:29:00.003-07:002019-04-11T20:29:45.684-07:00ICE BEARD WARRIORI missed a day because the road up to the ski resort was closed most of the day because of avalanche work. <br />
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The winter storm which gave my ski resorts 2 feet of snow has carried on to blast Colorado and Minnesota shutting down airports interstate roads and knocking down power poles. <br />
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I got to Alta and decided to ski even though it was snowing and colder than expected. <br />
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This is not from that day but represents what I looked like before. <br />
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This is the after shot, note the 1 inch of ice on my beard.<br />
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Some people will have to do some serious digging before they get to drive down. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-70201640337925060122019-04-11T11:06:00.000-07:002019-04-11T11:06:33.668-07:00ALTA SKIWell that first chair up the mountain gives me time to enjoy snow on the trees, the jewellery tree and the marmot tracks in the snow.<br />
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The first run down makes it all worth while. The hassle of getting here and the guilt of boarding Dizzy although this is an all cat home he is with.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-27471985215664069942019-04-06T11:22:00.001-07:002019-04-06T11:22:27.194-07:00LONG TIME NO BLOGWell this is the longest gap in my ongoing story of my wanderings.<br />
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REASONS<br />
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I felt like a break then I broke both my laptops -- well that will teach me to try and do something clever with Windows 10<br />
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Then I had some guests who specifically asked that I took no photographs and made no blog posts that identified them. Mind you they were a bunch of shit HOT girl musicians and their mum. Amongst others they played the flute and bullied me into more practice and I have improved enough to produce some recognizable riffs. <br />
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MY ADDICTION TO THE WHITE STUFF<br />
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Well I am sitting in Barbados airport waiting on my next leg of my roundabout itinerary to Utah and some skiing. After all the trials and tribulations and the two cancelled flights it all came together and I am on passage with rental car booked despite my bank deciding they were some scam organisation, my usual hotel being full and my cat sitter doing a runner. But I won't believe it until I am sat on the chair lift in the ski resort of Alta.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-22578193035840539352018-12-24T14:00:00.001-08:002018-12-24T14:00:25.620-08:00Merry christmas to all<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsRAZQlNDFtXr1SgdZa5ojYuXUwQmpI1AQrNqRPAyWhYoqxnlgrAVtE1yRCiqnwg-5plYGtv6gorb3n50r6DP2mL2RF04Nqq21A5TUg3LRWq0TJLT5Nm48Vm3tnS7M30e-Hp0cnp4ZrmQ/s1600/xmas+card.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsRAZQlNDFtXr1SgdZa5ojYuXUwQmpI1AQrNqRPAyWhYoqxnlgrAVtE1yRCiqnwg-5plYGtv6gorb3n50r6DP2mL2RF04Nqq21A5TUg3LRWq0TJLT5Nm48Vm3tnS7M30e-Hp0cnp4ZrmQ/s320/xmas+card.jpg" width="320" height="247" data-original-width="900" data-original-height="696" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-83061627427504516362018-12-20T14:14:00.001-08:002018-12-20T14:14:11.507-08:00Why all the expensive dredging?For the last month or so there has been a dredging operation in and around the fisherman's dock in Deshaies Guadeloupe. A big barge with a mobile crane. A big spoil barge and a little pushboat tug. All in the company of a much larger tug. They have been at it for about 6 weeks and must have cost a fortune. Nobody knew what it was all in aid of as the actual interior was not dredged just the area around the entrance.<br />
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Well today it was all made clear. <br />
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I suppose the T shirt sellers will be happy.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-17842539860066675032018-12-08T12:56:00.001-08:002018-12-08T12:56:17.039-08:00WASTING AWAY IN MARGARITAVILLE well Guadeloupe Not been on the internet much but my domino skills are improving and I am the backgammon champignon.<br />
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Time to finally move South maybe to Martinique for Christmas. <br />
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Providing some volcano does not get in the way. One of the known warning signs on an impending eruption is a ' swarm ' of small earthquakes,<br />
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During the period Dec 6th - 4:28pm to Dec 7th - 9:50am, a burst of 54 earthquakes occurred north of St. Kitts. <br />
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I have been helping out with a boat stuck on the mud near the canal. WHile I was wading around I saw some fish action but as we get lots of mullet working the shallows I ignored it Turns out they were baby hammerhead sharks, lots of them. One of the locals managed to pick up two about this size <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWvtMJ9KMhuht5syJvK1MEJclw2DvS8DV_h66G02pNrlzmfVD50Zekr5ohFdSW-IZxlRbYY8MGPDAbIYIuBdP5jp2PC104-il-jrdQq0JhW8NrFQOXNPOVoWAPmMQ3y3fcjwOYX_C2O7M/s1600/hammerhead.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWvtMJ9KMhuht5syJvK1MEJclw2DvS8DV_h66G02pNrlzmfVD50Zekr5ohFdSW-IZxlRbYY8MGPDAbIYIuBdP5jp2PC104-il-jrdQq0JhW8NrFQOXNPOVoWAPmMQ3y3fcjwOYX_C2O7M/s320/hammerhead.jpg" width="320" height="179" data-original-width="300" data-original-height="168" /></a></div><br />
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I think they were destined for the pot but someone reminded him quite forcefully that we were in a marine conservancy area and he returned them to the water. <br />
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Dizzy says HI!<br />
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And I am back on the gin, having run out of good Antiguan rum <br />
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The charter boats are still arriving. This despite being told VERY FIRMLY at the chart briefing that there was to be no movements by sail or motor after 4 pm. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-57790106561048511462018-11-06T12:30:00.001-08:002018-11-06T12:30:34.459-08:00HANGING OUT IN GUADELOUPEI have been lotus eating in Guadeloupe. It is my favorite Caribbean island. <br />
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But a couple of people have asked why stay there in hurricane season. Well I was beating feet South when we got the first real scare of the season a while back.<br />
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It was a hurricane that could not make up it's mind. Normally as they spin up they curve to the North. Not this one, it wobbled and went South a bit, wobbled a bit more and went more to the South. As I was North of it's current track it did not seem a good idea to head into it's path. <br />
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I was in the Saintes and the closest good hurricane hole was the canal between the wings of the butterfly.<br />
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Tied to the mangroves you can survive most hurricanes. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-15021487045383292832018-11-06T12:02:00.000-08:002018-11-06T12:05:55.203-08:00The story of my inner forestay failure and repair<br />
Short version the fitting between the threaded Norsemen and the overcenter lever failed and I got a similar fitting and adapted it to fit<br />
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We were sailing up to Guadeloupe from the Saintes on a fairly boisterous day. Just off the Southern tip of the high island the wind speed increased which I was expecting because of the compression and the seas got a bit higher and definitely more confused. I was bot worried as I had been in similar conditions before and had had the rigging professionally inspected by a rigger 3 months ago. There was a big bang, the boat lurched and the staysail luff developed a large belly. We were a 100 yards from getting into the lee of Guadeloupe so I just kept going but let out the staysail sheet a bit. In the lee I dropped the sail and rolled some genoa. <br />
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We dropped the hook at Anse La Barque and had a look. The forestay terminates at the bottom in a male thread Norseman. With a female threaded eye which attached the forestay to the overcenter lever. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinRJYzeHweQohHyhf_53-8nFopjNrcChilTyCTLS4kD84W3vSVFKZNG9P-g7tQq5CYek5gWifJ_HkWOTcURSr5fkD1k2NefsBrld-jjhN-47GpN0BPQMg-hQjHnmqQ44eN4kXX3c49iGg/s1600/1-DSCN0658+WITH+TEXT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinRJYzeHweQohHyhf_53-8nFopjNrcChilTyCTLS4kD84W3vSVFKZNG9P-g7tQq5CYek5gWifJ_HkWOTcURSr5fkD1k2NefsBrld-jjhN-47GpN0BPQMg-hQjHnmqQ44eN4kXX3c49iGg/s320/1-DSCN0658+WITH+TEXT.jpg" width="320" height="240" data-original-width="640" data-original-height="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSQmvpc7PfOUo-JRLoABYPFpf4c5oPA8AZ_Tk8hYEyfMfUbnHjLW9XdneU32KbdH9Frm3M5aDACmng5Rj0HSQTjbLNLL4Nu-NwWLCxRppPgB3-hfY-qM32YGCTx7U2twWl0JCuhhVbAkw/s1600/2-DSCN0664+WITH+TEXT.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSQmvpc7PfOUo-JRLoABYPFpf4c5oPA8AZ_Tk8hYEyfMfUbnHjLW9XdneU32KbdH9Frm3M5aDACmng5Rj0HSQTjbLNLL4Nu-NwWLCxRppPgB3-hfY-qM32YGCTx7U2twWl0JCuhhVbAkw/s320/2-DSCN0664+WITH+TEXT.jpg" width="320" height="298" data-original-width="640" data-original-height="595" /></a></div>It was obvious that the head of the eye fitting had come off the stem. There was clear evidence of corrosion at the break with only a little ring of bright metal near the surface. So it looks like it has corroded from the inside out. My inspection also came up with three cracks in the head. All of this should have been spotted by me and certainly I feel the expensive 'expert' should have found them <br />
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Anyway I need a new one. Calipers and thread gauges establish that it is a 7/16th UNF thread and the eye diameter is 9/16ths. <br />
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A search on the internet comes up empty. I post some forum queries with pics and go to bed thinking that someone somewhere will know where I can get a new one. <br />
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On the internet no one has come up with a definitive answer but a couple of people suggest that it might be a swage end. We drive over tp Pointe a Pitre and visit the rigger and other machine shops. Now they talk metric here and I am somewhat sanguine about my chances of getting an oddbal Imperial fitting but it is a nice day for a drive and we will stop off and do the tourist rain forest things on the way back. <br />
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So no worries Antigua is the next island and they have a good rigging shop there. <br />
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We sail up to Antigua and go visit the rigging shop. Now I have been cruising the Caribbean for 15 years now and always found the engineering shops to be very knowledgeable resourceful and willing to help out in any way possible to get you back sailing. I was surprised to find disinterested staff who did not see how to help me and told me to wait and see the boss. When I eventually got to speak with the boss he said that he had not seen an overcenter lever like mine for 25 years had nothing that would fit and he would not use his machine to swage down my new fitting. <br />
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No big deal I thought as I was due to fly out to Salt Lake City for my annual holiday off the boat to go skiing. Someone in Salt Lake City will sort me out. On arrival I got the Yellow pages out and went looking for an engineering shop with a metric swaging machine or at least an imperial one that might do the job. Nope nobody could swage that size.<br />
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It was time for some lateral thinking. I had grown up with blacksmiths shoeing my sisters horses and had recently seen how a blacksmith using just a hammer anvil and forge could turn a piece of flat bar into a gunbarrel [seen on youtube]<br />
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https://youtu.be/qTy3uQFsirk<br />
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so as my new eye had to be malleable perhaps a smith could reduce it down to the point I could get it tapped to the size I needed. <br />
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The first two I spoke to only did decorative scrolls but then I found a real blacksmith Matt Danielson at Wasatch Forge Initially he was somewhat reluctant as he said stainless was often brittle and would crack when forged. I said I thought this piece would be malleable as it had to flow when swaged He agreed to have a look at it and maybe give a go and we arranged a time. He looks like a smith and must be around 6' 6”. He decided it did not look brittle and when I said if it breaks or cracks so be it I would not hold him responsible in any way. So he got the forge up to forging heat and started. <br />
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The machine shop did a good job with a nice clean thread and I set it aside and went skiing. <br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-77196526209601000132018-10-16T14:38:00.001-07:002018-10-16T14:38:09.746-07:00CUL DE SAC MARIN GUADELOUPEI have been lotus eating in Marin.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyd9Br-6KHZJQV1uCCHPgjk4ynbv18DQNvQYIi7eN8MvdmCmP2BsQnezZsARmBly9fIu1ZzYz4blr_pP7MLdNelxuEtTFulDj5OmBv8c5or1jTaa4Bl4QEKCMmN7T_PSo5lIFXo5xdGLs/s1600/marin+g.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyd9Br-6KHZJQV1uCCHPgjk4ynbv18DQNvQYIi7eN8MvdmCmP2BsQnezZsARmBly9fIu1ZzYz4blr_pP7MLdNelxuEtTFulDj5OmBv8c5or1jTaa4Bl4QEKCMmN7T_PSo5lIFXo5xdGLs/s320/marin+g.jpg" width="320" height="198" data-original-width="600" data-original-height="372" /></a></div>It is just the best gunkholing in the Caribbean outside of Los Roques. There must be hundreds of possible anchorages here.<br />
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Great snorkeling in crystal clear water.<br />
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Pelicans on patrol everywhere I look.<br />
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Wind finally got strong enough for the expert kite surfers who were all out on foils.<br />
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The only downside is the weekend influx of motorboats that can come up the canal from Point a Pitre. However most go home at 5 pm.<br />
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But it was this lot kept me awake as they squabbled all night long. <br />
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So I moved next day.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-41767580105086448232018-10-06T11:30:00.001-07:002018-10-06T11:30:33.478-07:00KICK'EM JENNY IS RESTLESSAlong with all the other seismic activity there has been a swarm of tremors associated with the undersea volcano between Grenada and Carriacou. The University of the West Indies says an eruption is possible. <br />
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The last eruption was in 2017.<br />
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SERIOUS SHAKY PUDDING.<br />
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It even has a caldera.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-72743180969264080102018-09-28T12:01:00.001-07:002018-09-28T12:01:54.532-07:00SHAKY PUDDING AGAINMagnitude 6.5 this time and fairly close according to the Montserrat center.<br />
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Some structural damage reported from the quake alongside the wind and water damage from tropical storm Kirk<br />
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Mind you some damage is self inflicted, anybody who leaves a sail bent on a roller furler when a wind storm is forecast deserves to get it shredded. His insurance ma not pay as Kirk was a named storm. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-41078530076189841942018-09-27T12:23:00.000-07:002018-09-27T12:26:07.362-07:00KIRK IS A RIGHT YOYOHe was a tropical storm then briefly a hurricane then he totally decayed back to just being a tropical wave then suddenly cranked up to a storm again<br />
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I am still sitting in Deshaies and watching the remnants of Kirk who is getting the stuffing kicked out him by some strong shear winds.<br />
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But friends of mine to the South have been worried enough to put hurricane prep 5 into gear and have moved into the mangroves tieing lines ashore with stern anchors laid out .<br />
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But as Kirk is to the North it is sucking all the wind from Carriacou and it is totally windless in the mangroves. One comment from a prepper says " EVEN MY EYEBALLS ARE SWEATING".Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3685762971299131814.post-75707604198610273402018-09-24T17:53:00.000-07:002018-09-24T17:53:02.125-07:00TROPICAL STORMS AND HURRICANES EVERYWHERE I LOOKAfter a very quiet start the Atlantic has gone crazy. Everytime I look another wave is threatening to get organised and start the circulation. <br />
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While I have been tempted to make a run south on a couple of occasions there has always been the Azores high pushing a ridge out and forcing the storms South.<br />
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So just hanging out in Guadeloupe and getting a little gentle hiking in. Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0