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Facunda Ganesh
JJ Fetter is a two-time Olympic medalist (1992 & 2000) and multiple world and national champion in sailing. She has been inducted into the National Sailing Hall of Fame and is a four-time U.S. Sailing Yachtswoman of the Year.
After looking at a variety of things, Andrea opened the heat exchanger on the generator and discovered that it was completely solid with salt, sludge and 2 impeller blades. As the duo kept pulling things off, they kept showing us the poor state of things. All of our injectors were completely caked with carbon.
He introduced us to new tools, solvents, equipment and techniques that would make our lives easier and help us to maintain our engines. Day after day, for three weeks, Simon and Andrea laid on the floor cleaning and inspecting. Once the engines were clean, Andrea pulled off any corroded parts and showed Simon how to repaint them.
Previous to meeting Andrea our engines looked like they were old, exhausted and ready for decommission. In fact, engineers in Sicily told us that they both had to be replaced! Now, they almost looked brand new. The above picture show shows the before and after images of our generator.
Andrea also fixed our broken freezer latch, my Dyson hand-held vacuum (both shown above) that turned on and off intermittently and helped to get a stuck drawer unstuck. This will sound ridiculous, but having my Dyson fixed was better than any present I could ever received! After two years of having it go on and off as I vacuumed it now turned on and stayed on.
He was born on a boat (pictured above) in 1955 outside of Gibraltar coming from Brazil with both parents being from Italian decent. His father was an architect and decided to build a one-off sailboat.
Andrea put us in touch with Vittorio and his son Nico to help us with our rigging. Not only did they finally sort out a 3 times reoccurring issue, but they fixed some very low cost but highly sensitive issues we had on our rigging.
Is that idiots abroad or idiots aboard.
I have said so many times that the cruising community is a family and we all try and look after our own in whatever way we can. We feel privileged and honoured to call the people we have met along the way friends for life.
Like you we knew very little when we started out and still have so much to learn. We are lucky as well in that there are people out there who want to help and pass on their experience in what ever field they know about. Hopefully I will be able to help others with what I have learnt.
I love the honesty of your blog Kim and Simon but knowing you that honesty and genuine friendliness comes out in your personalities anyway and it is a privilege to know you.
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I have read there is a good selection of inexpensive blue water boats in the Philippines. Folks cross the Pacific then sour on the complexities of continuing west or circling back through the northern Pacific.
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The best of all is that, having the ability to be able to handle your boat alone, will also allow you to enjoy calmly even with a crew and will greatly increase the connection and knowledge you have of your own boat, and possibly of yourself ..
For me, more than the navigation itself, my fears have always been more about the departure and especially the docking at the port. Mooring alone in any weather circumstance has always been what has worried me the most and the barrier that is most difficult for me to pass.
I suppose that also the challenge of sailing will depend on the size of the boat. Me, with my 32 footer, can sail alone with confidence, especially when the real wind does not exceed 20 knots.. But I usually choose calm and beautiful days for solo sailing..
The rest, the basics. I always sail with a life vest when I am alone, in protected waters with a decathlons one that is a warm vest, but that also gives flotation, and in open waters with a self-inflating one with built-in harness.
As it allows us to listen to two channels at the same time, I always choose 16 and 11, which is the traffic control channel in my area, thus I anticipate the entrances and exits of large ships. The truth is that I am very happy with it, and I bought it on Aliexpress for 35 $, although you can also find it on Amazon for about 50 $. I recommend you take the cable to connect it to the computer and thus be able to load the channels you want comfortably.
Additionally, all information you have will be good for you, the plotter, if you have an AIS system, whether it is commercial or homemade like mine (With a Raspberry Pi and a TV tuner), they will allow you to anticipate the situations and traffic .. which is the key to navigating with confidence .. Anticipating what is going to happen.
But I learned a great trick, which is to put the minimum gear forward without releasing the last moorings, the boat leans on the front fender, and with the rudder thrown to the opposite side of the finger, I make the side stay close to the finger, supported on the defenses..
The more wind it gets (from the side, which is the one that bothers), the faster I get out .. because the bow will tend to fall downwind and it will be very difficult to fight against it .. so it is best to leave it to drift and based on where it blows, then walk the corridor in reverse, which in my case is usually the most common, or go forward.
Going from reverse to forward is something very easy and can be done with a lot of control, but going from forward to reverse is usually more tricky for me .. Since the stern resists me a little more .. like this I usually choose the maneuvers in which both the boat and I are most comfortable.
Out of the port and in a clear place, with the autopilot, I get against the wind with little speed and take the opportunity to remove the topping lift (I have the mania of tying it to the mast, I do not like to simply loosen it and let it hit the mainsail) , I open the cover of the main, I place the halyard in the halyard cuff, (all this can be also done before, at the dock) and I raise the main from the cockpit (it gives me more security than doing it from the mast, being alone).
When the genoa starts to load from the opposite side, I remove all the turns at full speed of the winch and hand-hunt the new sheet as much as I can, making sure that the sheet that I have released does not lock. Before going to pull with the winch, I correct the course a little, I almost put the rod on the track in the correct direction, and now, with a little more calm I finish pulling the genoa whatever is necessary (until almost the shroud upwind).
When the boat is already inside and before hitting the bow fender. a good push of reverse on the engine to remove practically all the movement .. and go to the bow with the boat hook to take the mooring of the bow that corresponds so that the boat does not leave its place .. Since the only exit is backwards. , that the finger and the fenders will not let him go to one side and the ship next door will not let him go to the other either.
There, a piece of advice, which is worth a lot to me in kitesurfing and which I try to apply on the boat .. It is that the wind is much stronger than you .. that you can face it for a while, but it will come out winning, So you better use him to your advantage .. If you know the bow is going to drift, then you can count on it and try to use it to your advantage .. Because the fight to try to defeat him with little speed is going to be very hard.
Without further ado, we encourage you to start trying and enjoying some days of sailing alone, without ceasing to enjoy your boat with friends, of course, that the social life of the sea is also very important and entertaining.
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