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Lots of sweat!
It took lots of sweat to get it fixed. Also it took 20l/5gal. of diesel oil and 6l/1.5gal. of transmission oil to get rid of this ‘strawberry milkshake’ out of transmission. Al in all I had to flush it 14…
Broken down :-(
:Last night, while motorsailing to our next anchorage at Puenta de Espato all of sudden my transmission started to slip.At first I was thinking I got a fouled propeller as we were just passing some net’s floaters. Since it was…
Along Spanish coast.
This Sunday we cast off from Almerimar and started our further journey up the Spanish coast. Initially the weather was very nice with winds around 3-5 on Beaufort scale so we were able to sail along pretty comfortably with the…
Reached Alicante.
After 5 days at sea and almost 500 NM under the keel, at around 1100 on April 14, 2015 we reached Marina Alicante in Alicante Spain. Great passage with moderate to strong winds (25 kts). Got sea sick pretty quick.…
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…
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.