The boat is on the hard at KKMI and the repairs to the steering may take a few weeks. If anyone is game for helping deliver the boat from San Francisco to Vancouver please let us know. We had a busy few days in San Fran cleaning up the boat and finding new homes for the food we had left on the boat. Greg was handing our cheese and salami to the street people and the boat yard workers went home with the last of the frozen catered dinners.
The 3-4 days after our steering failure were very uncomfortable. We were on the edge of a gale and the waves were very confused and large. We settled into a new watch system with 2 people on deck at at time for 4 hours on and 8 hours off. Everyone was trying to catch up on much needed sleep. The situation below decks were getting a bit messy. The ice box drain plugged and was emitting a horrid smell. Our foul weather gear were constantly getting soaked with splashing waves and not drying out. Somehow we acquired a lot of water in the bilges and it got to the point were I had to put my boots on to use the head where the bilge water had a yellow (yuck!) tinge. We got to work and cleaned out all the bilges and discovered (my fault) that the tin cans of perrier, coke, and spritzers in the bilges were corroding and leaking contents into the bilges.
Be sure to checkout photos on this site that I will be posting over the next few days. Here we are sailing under the Golden Gate bridge.
......Alice
Nice to see the update. I had stopped checking for a few days, so was thrilled to read an account of this experience...one that I hope never to have to face. Like adventures from the days of old or something. Are you all still friends? I hope so. Sounds like one of those human experiences you'd have to be there for to truly understand. Definitely character building and illuminating I'm sure. Im so glad no one was injured. You must be too Greg.
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ReplyDeleteJust realized that you must be the writer here Alice.
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