What Did You Do To Your Boat This Week?

Pineapple Express said:
Where are you and where are you heading?
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lol. currently just off the coast of france at an island called yew or something.
when you do 200 miles every day everything blurs together,
anyway im headed across the atlantic to bermuda as soon as i get a good weather window that is.
got pretty beat up in 25 foot seas and 35 kt winds so making repairs to the boat as well.
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zurk said:
lol. currently just off the coast of france at an island called yew or something.
when you do 200 miles every day everything blurs together,
anyway im headed across the atlantic to bermuda as soon as i get a good weather window that is.
got pretty beat up in 25 foot seas and 35 kt winds so making repairs to the boat as well.
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I remember mountain biking in Argentina and waiting for the “weather”. Might have had something to do with a gorgeous brunette but I never seemed to get on the bike to leave town.
 
trophywife said:
pics or it didnt happen
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The a women from Argentina especially Bariloche the “Banff” of the Andes are worth finding pictures of. Only eclipsed by the beef and Malbec wine. My new British soldier friend and I fell in love with Laura an Argentinian biology student who still loves to fish 22 years later. Fortunately I was already in love with a Welsh girl from Buenos Aires who flew out to visit. It was like Groundhog Day, every morning we would get up hung over go to the lake, see all the beautiful women, head back to the hostel and cook up a feast including tons of beef while drinking Malbec. Party well into the night and scrap our plans to summit a mountain in the morning. Recent photo.
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scott craven said:
How did the boat hold up ?
No major structural damage obviously .
Looks facking scary 😨
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it was worse at night.
pitch black and looking at lighted channel buoys flying 10 feet above the boat. interesting times.
anyway boat flexed 1/8" between the hulls. seems fine though.
engine bay on starboard had a factory installed hand shower. wave tore it a new one and opened a 6" hole in the engine bay. starboard engine crapped out and wiring was soaked by the 3 ft of water in the engine room. i smacked a seal into place which held and moved with one engine to the island. both bilge pumps crapped out. main router in the boat - a peplink failed. that knocked radar offline. one chartplotter died as a result with no GPS fix. DC to DC engine battery charger died. inverter died due to low battery on the house bank. i manually wired a DC to DC bridge from engine batteries to house bank and drained half the engine batteries so i could make the island. dinghy engine got ripped off - i had a dyneema safety line attached which kept it going overboard. rear canvas covers got ripped off. dinghy backup supporting line got sawn in half. fortunately dyneema is strong. metal shackle in front of the dinghy got ripped apart and was lost. front trampolines got shredded from water pressure.
ive got new trampolines on order. replaced hand shower hole with fiberglassed in 1/4" thick patch. shower needs engine bay open to use it which is fine. peplink just got replaced with an asus bd4 ooutdoor model. dc to dc charger got replaced with a pair of victrons. now i have a 3rd spare charger if everything goes out. dinghy engine got retightened on. i will likely just bolt it thru the transom. stbd engine wiring got corrosion sprayed on and cleaned and a layer of nooxid on it. engine works fine now. i have 2 spare portable bilge pumps on order. and existing water got pumped out of the engine bays. took her out for a short 5km spin and landed a few good waves on her bow and stern. no issue with patches and no leaks in engine bays. both engines work great. still some repairs to do but overall she held up well considering the pounding. need to complete a bunch of stuff including programming the new router, fixing the victron dc to dc boxes etc etc. but overall steep learning curve and im much more confident in the boat now.
 
zurk said:
it was worse at night.
pitch black and looking at lighted channel buoys flying 10 feet above the boat. interesting times.
anyway boat flexed 1/8" between the hulls. seems fine though.
engine bay on starboard had a factory installed hand shower. wave tore it a new one and opened a 6" hole in the engine bay. starboard engine crapped out and wiring was soaked by the 3 ft of water in the engine room. i smacked a seal into place which held and moved with one engine to the island. both bilge pumps crapped out. main router in the boat - a peplink failed. that knocked radar offline. one chartplotter died as a result with no GPS fix. DC to DC engine battery charger died. inverter died due to low battery on the house bank. i manually wired a DC to DC bridge from engine batteries to house bank and drained half the engine batteries so i could make the island. dinghy engine got ripped off - i had a dyneema safety line attached which kept it going overboard. rear canvas covers got ripped off. dinghy backup supporting line got sawn in half. fortunately dyneema is strong. metal shackle in front of the dinghy got ripped apart and was lost. front trampolines got shredded from water pressure.
ive got new trampolines on order. replaced hand shower hole with fiberglassed in 1/4" thick patch. shower needs engine bay open to use it which is fine. peplink just got replaced with an asus bd4 ooutdoor model. dc to dc charger got replaced with a pair of victrons. now i have a 3rd spare charger if everything goes out. dinghy engine got retightened on. i will likely just bolt it thru the transom. stbd engine wiring got corrosion sprayed on and cleaned and a layer of nooxid on it. engine works fine now. i have 2 spare portable bilge pumps on order. and existing water got pumped out of the engine bays. took her out for a short 5km spin and landed a few good waves on her bow and stern. no issue with patches and no leaks in engine bays. both engines work great. still some repairs to do but overall she held up well considering the pounding. need to complete a bunch of stuff including programming the new router, fixing the victron dc to dc boxes etc etc. but overall steep learning curve and im much more confident in the boat now.
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fkn hell
Inquiring minds want to know, What did @zurk learn from this?
 
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