We've been cruising the San Juan islands all week with 3-5 other boats. Mostly it's been Deborah and I in Verboten, Bill & Sue in Windsong (Mk I Capri 22, WKSR), Scott S in a Catalina 22 Mk II, all sailing in company. In addition, Scott R has joined us most evenings in his Catalina 22, and Lou and Rochelle have met up with us once in their Mac 25. Surprisingly good wind means way less motoring than last time we were here.
While there have been a few minor mishaps, mostly it's been great. I've had a few "issues"
The mainsheet block came off the traveler when I raised the sail the 2nd day. My guess is I hadn't done a good job of tightening the screw. Unlike the viagra commercial, I didn't have to use a lifejacket strap to put it back together. Just some mighty quick work to get the pin in with a somewhat flappy sail.
The second day was also when I discovered a leak in the forward locker. We kept finding water in the portapotty well which I initially thought was condensation from the ice chest. Turned out it wasn't. The @!@#$2 through hull for the old paddle wheel is leaking - apparently the 5200 or whatever they use to seal the actual fitting has gone bad. I patched it up as best I could with some MarineTex that Scott R had along, but it's still leaking about a cup a day. Grrrr.
Anchor dragged as the tide came in and the wind came up in Shallow Bay on Sucia Island. Relocating and resetting was a pain because the Admiral and I were not communicating well. Second set held, which was good, because the wind was blowing like snot and we were sailing all over the place.
Dinghy failed to start the morning of the 4th day, figured out that evening that it had run out of gas at about the same time I shut it down. Whoops.
Yesterday (Day 4) I had the most worrying failure. In the middle of our sail from Shallow Bay to Reid Harbor on Stuart Island my chart plotter died. Borrowed a multimeter from Lou and figured out that one of my crimped connections had come apart (I'd fire the electrician if it wasn't me) which had blow the fuse in the breaker panel. Luckily I had a spare fuse.
No major issues today.
Poor cell signal here so I'll have to post photos tomorrow when I have better throughput.
While there have been a few minor mishaps, mostly it's been great. I've had a few "issues"
The mainsheet block came off the traveler when I raised the sail the 2nd day. My guess is I hadn't done a good job of tightening the screw. Unlike the viagra commercial, I didn't have to use a lifejacket strap to put it back together. Just some mighty quick work to get the pin in with a somewhat flappy sail.
The second day was also when I discovered a leak in the forward locker. We kept finding water in the portapotty well which I initially thought was condensation from the ice chest. Turned out it wasn't. The @!@#$2 through hull for the old paddle wheel is leaking - apparently the 5200 or whatever they use to seal the actual fitting has gone bad. I patched it up as best I could with some MarineTex that Scott R had along, but it's still leaking about a cup a day. Grrrr.
Anchor dragged as the tide came in and the wind came up in Shallow Bay on Sucia Island. Relocating and resetting was a pain because the Admiral and I were not communicating well. Second set held, which was good, because the wind was blowing like snot and we were sailing all over the place.
Dinghy failed to start the morning of the 4th day, figured out that evening that it had run out of gas at about the same time I shut it down. Whoops.
Yesterday (Day 4) I had the most worrying failure. In the middle of our sail from Shallow Bay to Reid Harbor on Stuart Island my chart plotter died. Borrowed a multimeter from Lou and figured out that one of my crimped connections had come apart (I'd fire the electrician if it wasn't me) which had blow the fuse in the breaker panel. Luckily I had a spare fuse.
No major issues today.
Poor cell signal here so I'll have to post photos tomorrow when I have better throughput.
