Departure from Oahu, subsequently delayed for weather.
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UPDATE: Thelonious II Completes Hawaii Cruise, 2021.
- Thread starter Christian Williams
- Start date
As Neil Young once wrote (and still sings) : "Long may you Run..."
Safe journey home Christian!
Guzzisailor
Member II
aloha.
Departure delayed. Awaiting favorable wind
Chris Mc.
Member III
Sounds like an excuse for one more Mai Tai!!
Safe travels and like many here, your exploits are enjoyed.
I set out at dawn despite SCWs because the gribs said 20 knots gusting to 22. By noon, reaching the open sea, I encountered steady 30 knots gusting to 40 over the deck. Th course is tight close-hauled to make North, but i figured tough it out and in a few days things would likely ease as latitude increased. However, the bilge pump was running too much. Way too much, as we bashed and plunged. I checks all thru hulls, dripless, and everything else. No water anywhere--this boat just doesn't leak. So it had to be the bow, probably the hole in t he stem for the chain locker drain. I have checked that visually many times, but it's hard to reach and touch. And e were buryin the bow every other wave, which is rare on the E38.
So in the crazy gyrations of going to windward in a near gale I crawled forward and -- yeah.
IN f act, so much water was coming in that the bilge pump couldn't keep up, so I manned the Whale. Could I fix the leak while hove to? Yes, somehow, definitely. But Oahu was only just receding behind me, a nd turning back would make repair easy. Also, I didnt savor A week or two of that kind of windward work, which is inordinately challenging for boat and skipper. sO I reversed course and by 5 p.m. had sailed 50 miles to nowhere except my former slip in Ko Olina.
I'll dig into the repair tomorrow. I hate turning back but the decision was correct. That is not always clear, but it was obvious this time. I'll depart again when the fix is made and the trades have returned to normal. By the way, you'd never know this hose was an issue unless the bow is burying forcefully. I believe the violent pressures blew the hose right off the fitting .Here is the evidence so far. Video is very useful in analysing a problem you can hardly see or which is intermittent. The video suggests that the hose came right off, I'll know tomorrow if that's what happened.
Here's the evidence video
vimeo.com
So in the crazy gyrations of going to windward in a near gale I crawled forward and -- yeah.
IN f act, so much water was coming in that the bilge pump couldn't keep up, so I manned the Whale. Could I fix the leak while hove to? Yes, somehow, definitely. But Oahu was only just receding behind me, a nd turning back would make repair easy. Also, I didnt savor A week or two of that kind of windward work, which is inordinately challenging for boat and skipper. sO I reversed course and by 5 p.m. had sailed 50 miles to nowhere except my former slip in Ko Olina.
I'll dig into the repair tomorrow. I hate turning back but the decision was correct. That is not always clear, but it was obvious this time. I'll depart again when the fix is made and the trades have returned to normal. By the way, you'd never know this hose was an issue unless the bow is burying forcefully. I believe the violent pressures blew the hose right off the fitting .Here is the evidence so far. Video is very useful in analysing a problem you can hardly see or which is intermittent. The video suggests that the hose came right off, I'll know tomorrow if that's what happened.
Here's the evidence video
Vimeo
vimeo.com
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1911tex
Sustaining Member
Christian:
“The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
You made the right decision to say the least!
“The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
You made the right decision to say the least!
I wonder if the top plastic fitting in the front of the anchor locker has a part of the rode sitting square on top, partly blocking the opening? (I used to ponder that, and along with wanting to let mud wash away easier, I put a section of "Dry Deck" plastic pieces in that locker under the rode and chain. I also had one plug from a sand/mud mixture.
Of course we never had your kind of 24/7 slamming into head seas to pressurize that little piece of tubing, either.
Of course we never had your kind of 24/7 slamming into head seas to pressurize that little piece of tubing, either.
