After all this time of preparations and re-fits, the boat seemed ready to be taken out to sea. Sunday September 8 we set up sails in the direction of Playa Santa Cristina, Spain with intention to anchor there for a…
Re-fit is moving along.
Since June 2018 ‘Jemm of the Sea II’ was on the hard at Port Napoleon (Port Napoleon on a map) She’s been worked on extensively: new engine, new genset, a new range and all those other things that EMEK…
Wine bar!
Nothing special to write about it, we just enjoy it!
Alternator
After two day work I finally replaced my stinky 55A stock Hitachi alternator with a powerful 150A Balmar 6-series paired with MC-614 external smart regulator. It came with the Balmar own AltMount serpentine belt conversion kit as a single V-belt…
New electronics
Just wired some addition to my nav electronics, from Furuno. Class B AIS (L) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Identification_System Weather Fax and Navtex (M) – Radiofax aka Weatherfax and Navtex Ethernat marine Hub (R) – to interconnect them to the laptop In the…
Snow, South of France, really…?
This afternoon, around 1PM or so I started to snow and it keeps coming down. Temperature being slightly above freezing so not much accumulation. So we’re hunkering down inside our boat with both shore power electric and the boat’s own…
Comfort food.
Since we’ve got our propane system fixed, tonight I was able to satisfy our craving for some Southern, comfort food. After visiting 2 supermarkets we gather all ingredients and then I could get down to cooking. Taking into account the…
Fire, fire!
A motor boat that was stored on the hard at the Port Napoleon marina caught fire this afternoon. Nobody was on board and it was connected to a shore power. It was put out by the local firefighters. Once more…
Got gas?
Yes, we’ve got it. This was my propane locker after I removed it this past December and I tried to fix it. It was leaking both into and around it, to the inside of the boat. Some good folks at…
Autodidact
Self applying to learning the Furuno 1715 radar system.