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[DownWest]

i believe it is possible to anchor off at Cascais ? ( save a few smackeroonies )

Would be a bit exposed & bumpy out there, but possible further up river. Not to mention that if it did get windy outside Cascais, he would be on a lee shore with no engine...
He is resigned to sitting it out until a fresh engine arrives.

 

[FlyingGoose]

I'm no friend of Webby's, but I am confused by the way you guys are helping him.

From what I see you can download his book for free, or you can download it for £4.99. Those that do the latter are probably contributing literally a few pence to Webby, the rest will go to Amazon/Kindle or whoever.

Surely if you want to help the man, download the free version and send him £4.99 direct.

Webby can thank me later

Amazon prime book members can get it for free, and others pay me thinks,
but he will get a royalty from the prime members subscriptions , just like spotify every time there is a download
Also the more we buy on this forum and give it a review , more people, who are more sane and intelligent than most on here will see the book has good reviews and lots of downloads, as Amazon prime and their e books are worldwide, it could sell millions , and we could see WEBBY up for the Booker Prize .
It could be a sensation , and he will get loads of dosh and buy a new boat in the 65ft range and waves as he sails past us who put him there

 

[cherod]

Would be a bit exposed & bumpy out there, but possible further up river. Not to mention that if it did get windy outside Cascais, he would be on a lee shore with no engine...
He is resigned to sitting it out until a fresh engine arrives.

Ok thank you , was just wondering , i am sure he has his reasons

 

[Beneteau381]

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He could do as I once did when my inboard engine was out of action.

Make up a bracket using cheap timber and materials from a DIY store, then mount an outboard motor on it and away you go.

Ive suggested using the 2hp as a backup to get to Faro backup

Amazon prime book members can get it for free, and others pay me thinks,
but he will get a royalty from the prime members subscriptions , just like spotify every time there is a download
Also the more we buy on this forum and give it a review , more people, who are more sane and intelligent than most on here will see the book has good reviews and lots of downloads, as Amazon prime and their e books are worldwide, it could sell millions , and we could see WEBBY up for the Booker Prize .
It could be a sensation , and he will get loads of dosh and buy a new boat in the 65ft range and waves as he sails past us who put him there

He told me that the Prime download, he "gets about thruppence" so not as good as the £4.99 one, however yo make a good point, we on here are a drop in the ocean BUT the story of a butterflies wings causing a storm holds true, us buying his book had boosted him to the top selling sailing book yesterday, could we be the start of an authors success?
PS apparantly it is important to leave him feedback, if you like his witterings then good stuff is even better

 

[zoidberg]

Well, I'm more than halfway through the Kindle Edition and have had all the 'cheap Canary wine' and 'fried calamari' I can manage. It's quite an exhausting exhaustive travelogue and, having read through Basil D'Oliveira's recent book about much the same stuff and same places, I'm turning my back on such travails for a while, reaching for Raban and Chatwin.

Mind you, I have gleaned a couple of good seagoing ideas from Nick's tales of woe and 'doing interminable boat repairs in exotic locations'.... Clouds and silver linings, I s'pose..... and I've got to the bit where, bored, he takes up his 'distance learning' RYA Ocean astro studies again, and brushes the cobwebs off his virginal Astra IIIB sextant, in Lanzarote....

 

[greeny]

Started reading the book and am quite enjoying it. Bringing back lots of good memories of one of the more leisurely trips down this coast that I did with my Dad some 35 yrs ago. The places and the weather bringing back good memories of him.

 

[Beneteau381]

Started reading the book and am quite enjoying it. Bringing back lots of good memories of one of the more leisurely trips down this coast that I did with my Dad some 35 yrs ago. The places and the weather bringing back good memories of him.

Exactly the same for me, my trip down mirrors his but we did a quick one, swmbo still working then and we had a time constraint

 

[25931]

i believe it is possible to anchor off at Cascais ? ( save a few smackeroonies )

Not advisable at this time of the year, let's all buy the book or help in some other way.

 

[zoidberg]

Rumour has it that Webby has found, in Cascais, a series of 'free' unlocked wifi accounts to piggy-back on and, as readers of his book will know, he haunts and hunts the harbours of several Atlantic archipelagos to find 'em. One suspects he's 'fat, dumb and happy' stuck in rather equable Cascais, with a daily promenade of svelte young Danes and German heading for the showers and, later, the clubs, to keep him on the 'qui vive'. Besides which, he's earning money hand over fist doing what he's quite good at..... cobbling together websites.

One suspects many of his commercial competitors are stuck 'working from home' with pisswilly connectivity, and he isn't/hasn't/doesn't. Make hay while the sun shines... And he's making enough 'shekels' around the marina/harbour to pay for his enforced stay. Perhaps enough to pay for his shiny new red engine..... but not, I suspect, his bar bill.

Nevertheless, I wish him well and an 'Appy Chrissie. He's probably having more fun than we are.

 

[DJE]

Webbie is from south of the border but has had the good sense to escape. Find another excuse for your parsimony!

Dutch ancestry?

 

[awol]

Dutch ancestry?

I have heard other words used to describe his ancestry!

 

[PlanB]

You can do without extra complications when you are missing an engine - I know (although it was a TAMD71B)

 

[webcraft]

And he's back..

Many thanks everyone who has helped us out by buying the book, another 1500 copies and the cost of the new engine will be covered!

Seriously though, every little really does help, every 6 copies sold pays for another night of our enforced and expensive marina stay and we are grateful and heartened by the interest, offers of help and general goodwill that our predicament has triggered.

Hope everyone has enjoyed the book. If you did get in on Kindle Unlimited don't forget to read it!

To answer a few questions, we are not in the anchorage because we have no way of getting in and out of the marina except by very expensive tow. We don't trust our aging 2hp Yamaha enough to tow out with the Avon, and anyway the front section of said dinghy has taken to randomly deflating. So far this has only happened while we have been ashore, but the thought of it happening while trying to tow ourselves in or out of the marina does not bear contemplating! Anyway, the anchorage is great when the wind is in the North, but the weather is changing and there are more days of S-Westerlies now.

The old 2GM20 has apparently been suffering water ingress periodically for some time - it looks as though the exhaust was inadequate. It is definitely not worth rebuilding, looks like we were lucky to get this far. Second hand 2GMs are thin on the ground, and though we were finally offered one we had already ordered the Beta by then. Beta have been very reasonable, and I am only having to sell one kidney.

Re. The suggestion of jury rigging an outboard - our very small transom and windvane really don't lend themselves to it, and we feel that we already have one foot in the incident pit.

(The Incident Pit)

The new engine should be here in a couple of weeks. It will be mostly fitted in the boat, but we will need a lift-out to fit a new raw water inlet seacock and also to see why the prop is apparently loose on the shaft. (see incident pit reference above).

Thanks again everyone, especially Beneteau381 for starting this thread in my absense. Do get the book if you haven't already, it's kind of like low-key crowdfunding I suppose, and not entirely without interest. Even Kindle Unlimited sales provide a small royalty on a pages read basis. And if you enjoyed it, please leave a review.

I'll report here occasionally on progress.

- W

 

[Stemar]

(The Incident Pit)

Been there a few times, too. Fortunately, not at sea, so far.

I like the Critical Incident Technique

The application of CIT relies on five major steps:

1. structured incident review
2. Fact finding from the participants
3. Identification of the issues
4. Decisions to take affirmative action to resolve the issues
5. Evaluation of decision’s probability of getting to the root cause

My management invariably added two more steps:
6. Indefinite procrastination of actions from 4
7. Punishment of those who caused the issue by warning of them in time to fix them

 

[Deleted member 36384]

...I like the Critical Incident Technique

My management invariably added two more steps:
6. Indefinite procrastination of actions from 4
7. Punishment of those who caused the issue by warning of them in time to fix them

Superseded by Causal Investigation. Worth reading up on if interested in root cause analysis. Your Management's additions are very common because they know at heart that Causal Investigation eventually arrives on their desk as the cause of loss to company (-;

 

[Poignard]

Re. The suggestion of jury rigging an outboard - our very small transom and windvane really don't lend themselves to it, and we feel that we already have one foot in the incident pit.

I had in mind mounting it on the side, not on the transom, but if you can't rely on it then that's out.

Anyway, good luck!

 

[webcraft]

I had in mind mounting it on the side, not on the transom, but if you can't rely on it then that's out.

Anyway, good luck!

Thanks. Would have had to buy another more powerful longshaft outboard.

- W

 

[wully1]

Thanks. Would have had to buy another more powerful longshaft outboard.

- W

I just lash the dinghy /OBM (lashed so it can’t swivel)alongside mid ships, set the revs to get some manoeuvring speed and climb back aboard. When I want to stop I use the boat hook to pull off the kill cord.

 

[SaltIre]

I just lash the dinghy /OBM (lashed so it can’t swivel)alongside mid ships, set the revs to get some manoeuvring speed and climb back aboard. When I want to stop I use the boat hook to pull off the kill cord.

From #73...

To answer a few questions, we are not in the anchorage because we have no way of getting in and out of the marina except by very expensive tow. We don't trust our aging 2hp Yamaha enough to tow out with the Avon, and anyway the front section of said dinghy has taken to randomly deflating. So far this has only happened while we have been ashore, but the thought of it happening while trying to tow ourselves in or out of the marina does not bear contemplating!

 

[wully1]

From #73...

An Avon doesn’t need a long shaft?

Lashed alongside it doesn’t matter much if the front goes soft.

I wasn’t saying he should, just what I have done.