Sardinia Summer 2015

Hurricane said:
Thanks Derek

It was the experience that we (both SWMBO and I) gained with you that gives us the confidence to do the longer passages.

Although I say it myself, we are now getting quite good at handling JW with just the two of us.
Admittedly, there was very little wind when we arrived yesterday but we parked on the visitors berth and then went straight to our berth without any commotion.
In these circumstances, we use our new DIY headsets which really work well.
You can chatter between each other about stupid things that you otherwise wouldn't say.
So, when an important decision has to be made, it can be done with the least amount of hassle.
You just stick them on your head and talk as if the other person was right next to you - even conversations with the dock masters can be heard by the other person.

I've done a "write up" on them which might appear in the next issue (July I think) of MBY.
Believe me, if you have never tried them, you wouldn't appreciate just how good they are.
We even had some of the yachties using them at Sant Carles before we left!!
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Thanks Mike, the DIY headsets sound interesting, look forward to reading about them. I hope they are not that sensitive that they would transmit what is being said under my breath sometimes:):) I really do smile to myself when a boat comes in to moor (invariable driven by the husband) who them shouts to his crew (invariably his wife or partner) to JUMP. I look across and see a 6 foot gap and on occasion the crew member replys 'you come and f**k**g JUMP'. :):)
 
djefabs said:
Thanks Mike, the DIY headsets sound interesting, look forward to reading about them. I hope they are not that sensitive that they would transmit what is being said under my breath sometimes:):) I really do smile to myself when a boat comes in to moor (invariable driven by the husband) who them shouts to his crew (invariably his wife or partner) to JUMP. I look across and see a 6 foot gap and on occasion the crew member replys 'you come and f**k**g JUMP'. :):)
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Yes, they are very sensitive - full duplex - the only description I can make is that they seem just like being on the telephone.
However, the point is that by talking between each other (even over silly unrelated things) any tension is immediately removed so anything important can be discussed rationally without any resort to raised voices.
In fact, we are probably the wrong people to test this technology because SWMBO and I do manage the boat well anyway but we find using the headsets just makes the whole situation much easier.
One drawback - I now have to listen to her complaining about how I've curled and stowed the mooring lines!!
 
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djefabs said:
.... I really do smile to myself when a boat comes in to moor (invariable driven by the husband) who them shouts to his crew (invariably his wife or partner) to JUMP. I look across and see a 6 foot gap and on occasion the crew member replys 'you come and f**k**g JUMP'. :):)
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Seen that once in Sant Carles, skipper approached a hammerhead over the other side of the marina to us, wife takes a leap of faith and missed, splash, skipper panics, instead of keeping off the throttles he wildly runs forward, then astern, spins and speeds back towards his pontoon, then, not having seen his wife make it onto the pontoon, as we had, he runs at speed down between two pontoons then throttles back wildly as he reached the end. He then saw his wife was OK, thank goodness.

I frightened the daylights out of me and Medskipper of this parish. We could not believe he span the props wildly whilst his wife was unseen and in the water off his stern; next day his wife, whom had seen us looking on and heard us say 'oh no, he's panicking' said she didn’t know why we were so concerned, he is an experienced skipper and knew exactly what he was doing……

Glad the trip went OK Mike, keep the reports coming....
 
John100156 said:


Seen that once in Sant Carles, skipper approached a hammerhead over the other side of the marina to us, wife takes a leap of faith and missed, splash, skipper panics, instead of keeping off the throttles he wildly runs forward, then astern, spins and speeds back towards his pontoon, then, not having seen his wife make it onto the pontoon, as we had, he runs at speed down between two pontoons then throttles back wildly as he reached the end. He then saw his wife was OK, thank goodness.

I frightened the daylights out of me and Medskipper of this parish. We could not believe he span the props wildly whilst his wife was unseen and in the water off his stern; next day his wife, whom had seen us looking on and heard us say 'oh no, he's panicking' said she didn’t know why we were so concerned, he is an experienced skipper and knew exactly what he was doing……

Glad the trip went OK Mike, keep the reports coming....
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Credit where due, he's certainly a trier. He may be luckier next time. ;)
 
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djefabs said:
Thanks Mike, the DIY headsets sound interesting, look forward to reading about them. I hope they are not that sensitive that they would transmit what is being said under my breath sometimes:):) I really do smile to myself when a boat comes in to moor (invariable driven by the husband) who them shouts to his crew (invariably his wife or partner) to JUMP. I look across and see a 6 foot gap and on occasion the crew member replys 'you come and f**k**g JUMP'. :):)
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Why on earth would anyone order their crew to JUMP?

Very early on I learned the value of lassoing the cleats on the pontoon from the deck of Sea Dweller. I think a jump would have probably resulted in a couple of broken legs:ambivalence:

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Hi Hurricane. Many thanks for that. Gets you in the mood early in the season! JW looking excellent. Yes please post from Mahon. I agree re internal stairs, N up plotter and H or C up radar, and hot swappable throttles! I've berthed in that exact spot in alcudiamar several times- nice place and handy for the chandlery. The sq78 a few berths to your starboard is Gemmi, the one that was also a few berths to your starboard in the last pictures you posted from Mahon. 2013 LIBS boat She has had fin stabs retrofitted over the winter
I hope all goes well on next leg
 
Nice report hurricane. Enjoy alcudia, I'm normally their for the tri but for some strange reason find I'm in Dartmouth for he weekend... Anyway we keep a boat across the bay in colonia sant Pere, lovely place worth a visit, for a bit of chill time. Good luck to your son.. Didn't think it was a full iron man, only a 70.3.
 
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Hurricane said:
I'll post another report next week from Mahon if people are interested.
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Please do, of course we are!
I'm curious to give your BT device a try, when we'll catch up in CF. It really sounds effective, from your descriptions.
Actually, it's not so much the onboard usage I'm interested in - by now, with swmbo we almost developed the capacity to read our own minds, while maneuvering... :)
But at home, sometimes such device would be handy while doing stuff at different floors, for a change vs. shouting up/down the stairs!

Re. electronic throttles, funny that you should call the "swappability" a "big feature".
I mean, nobody would have accepted anything different, back in the days of cables/hydraulic throttles!
That was obviously quite an oversight, from the producers of the first electronic throttles...
 
AIDY said:
Didn't think it was a full iron man, only a 70.3.
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Correct - it is a Half Iron Man - there is also another one here in the autumn which will be a full one.
For those who don't know a 70.3 (Half Iron Man)
1.2 mile swim
56 mile bike leg
13.1 mile run
Simply double for a full Iron Man - in that case the run would end up as a Full Marathon (26.2 miles - the distance from Marathon to Athens).

I didn't realise quite how big this event here is - I believe that there 3800 competitors registered for the event on Saturday.
Some serious organisation - roads will be closed and the whole of the beach around the lagoon is fenced off for the stage transitions.
 
it's huge.... the bike pen / interchange area in the high street is massive.... some really nice bikes in their too... I've only done the bike course but a family member does this event every year. tell your son to watch some of the hair pins and descents on the bike ride, if you get it wrong you've had it. we normally trundle the boat across the bay for the weekend but sadly not this weekend.
 
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Thank you for posting the report. Makes for very interesting and enjoyable reading.

Please post more from where ever your cruising takes you.
 
MapisM said:
Re. electronic throttles, funny that you should call the "swappability" a "big feature".
I mean, nobody would have accepted anything different, back in the days of cables/hydraulic throttles!
That was obviously quite an oversight, from the producers of the first electronic throttles...
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Are you sure MapisM? If you hot swap a push-pull cable-controlled boat @20kts, can you stop the boat and put her in neutral from the new helm, while all the time the old helm has the sticks jammed forward?

With children on board, one of the benefits of electronics is that you can disable the throttles at the helm stations you're not at
 
jfm said:
With children on board, one of the benefits of electronics is that you can disable the throttles at the helm stations you're not at
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This must have been a comfort when Clarkson was on the flybridge and you were "down below"!
 
Was more a necessity than comfort! We (Nick Barke and I) hot swapped to the lower helm on one occasion to avoid an incident. Would have been handy to have electro hydraulic valves to turn off the fly steering wheel too! :D

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Referring toward earlier chatter about inter spouse communications, try a pair of "marriage savers" from www.cruisingsolutions.com . They seem to be temporarily sold out at the mo but they may save a marriage or two!
We will have a pair in Carloforte end of June if anybody wants to try them.
 
jfm said:
Are you sure MapisM? If you hot swap a push-pull cable-controlled boat @20kts, can you stop the boat and put her in neutral from the new helm, while all the time the old helm has the sticks jammed forward?
With children on board, one of the benefits of electronics is that you can disable the throttles at the helm stations you're not at
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Not sure to understand your point, J.
I mean, of course I agree that you can't disable one station with cable controlled throttles, but why should it be a problem to put the boat in neutral on station 2 (or do anything else for that matter), after leaving station 1 with the sticks hammered forward?
What happens with mechanical controls is that any stick movement on any station is "mirrored" in real time on the other one, so after leaving station 1 you will find station 2 in the very same position, and you just do whatever you please, as if you would be still on the old station.
Or am I missing what you actually meant, maybe?
 
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