The last hurrah

two marvellous nail-biting instalments - Excellent stuff, Thank-you.

I'll look forward to seeing you enjoy her even more when she reaches these shores.

I wonder what the scriptwriters have dreamt up for the final leg to Sparkes? - you'll be hoping for less drama..... but we want more, more more!
 
marvellous tale

Excellent stuff as other say.

Really very interesting how a simple failure causes a major event. All the more fun when language and different emergency proceedures rule!

As a matter of interest why did you stop attempting to restart the failed engine even when you where under escort? I assume the running engine was charging the batteries.
 
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We did keep trying, but it was difficult to hear if she was going to start over the noise of the working engine.
When it did eventually start in Kalimnos, we still couldn't say if the fuel would hold out, so either way it was 'game over boys'...
 
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two marvellous nail-biting instalments - Excellent stuff, Thank-you.

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You may have missed one. There were three instalments. Unless, of course, you found less than marvellous. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Re: marvellous tale

Excellent report, well written, full of drama, tension and humour. have you signed a contract with ybw yet /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
Re: marvellous tale

I have justed noticed the title of your post.

Can't be the last hurrah - the bl@@dy boat ain't home yet.

We are looking forward to part 4 (and 5 and 6 and...........) /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
excellent stuff.

Very frustrating this "remote boating" with airflights etc - you have to make fixed decisions perhaps a bit earlier than otherwise in order to be able to leave the boat.

I understand the fuel issue a bit more now and it sounds very much like the sort of thing i had on a prolonged trip - any cack in the fuel gradually causes a blockage but then -mysteriously- sorts itself out after a bit of downtime. But with no inkling that it was one of those self-curing issues, you had to turn back really.

Whatever work you get done on the boat i wd try and make sure you watch and learn if at all possible so you can try and effect a fix yerself if it happens again, maybe? If the blockage is upstream of the filters (ie in the tank then you need to be abble to change filters and have something to blow up the inlet pipe praps to clear that blockage. I used an compressed air line up the inlet pipe but had an electric compressor. No i dunno why the generator ran but the main engines were ok.

Idea for cleaning tank: You can buy (in uk) a hand-powered bilge pump. Think also known as a "gusher" pump. You can pump anything really withem, and they are quite cheap. You're sposed to nail these to a boat but i have one screwed to a piece of half-inch plywood, pltywood long enough to stand on the wood with yr legs apart and operate the pump on the floor. Now cnect two pieces of hose (i have bout 1inch hiose on circlips) either end and you have an ace non-electric pump that can be used anywhere on the boat either for emergency pumping with dead batteries, or pumping out tank at quite rate - 10 galls a monute with sinking boat or 5gals a minute after several lagers and not-sinking boat. Set the outlet to run back into tank via a funnel- but initially fill up containers to avoid recirculating and disturbing the cack at the bottom. Get the inlet to be wafted around at the bottom of the tank near the outlet pipe and you might not need to take out too much before removing most of the cack. And you can use this pump for argh immediate pumpout of freshwater tank having accidentally put fuel in it or a hundred other emergency things. I have 5m of hose either side but that's a bit much for a 30footer. I didn't have one of these with my fuel probs but it wd've been good. Also, you can make the thing before flying and dismantle, and no electric to go wrong or be all hm damnit etc.
 
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