To Grenada again

9 dec I wil go up north, the best way I learned is to leave here at 1400, so I will be out and north of Trinidad at 1600, and current will take me up east a little so it is easier to make it to Granada, up wind.
I will probably be there at 0500 or something like that, so no hurry. Will be rough ride 20-25 knots, maybe more..

No Curacao

I will slowly move up north from Trinidad, my visum here ends 14 dec, so I have to go before that date...

Moving on

Simon the diver cleaned the bottom and the prop of the Condor today, it was totally covered with hard shelled sea animals.. It was an hours work, but essential here because the Orinoco 40 miles south puts a lot of things in the water making sea live growth abundant here..
What next, well I probably will leave Tuesday and go to Curacao. It is not the best plan there is, because it will be long upwind to get to St Maarten or something like that later.... Time will tell.

Back at Peake

Moved, but now my outboards do not work anymore.. read http://www.teamhan.com/ (I can not copy it here)

Project engine head

New head, got in 12 oct..

A push rod bus was pulled out, removed side of engine...

Injectors are hard to get tight

We made a special tool, but still one is blowing small bubbles.. not perfect

Thanks to Wiro Bakker (and Ester) and Jan vd Bollemaat...

Maybe see them in Curacao if I get there.. zeezwervers.waarbenjij.nu/reisverslag/?page=messages&intTravelId=140219

one year

27 Sept 0700, it's 1 year ago that I left Scheveningen... 8.5 days to Cascais, later 4.5 days to Lanzarote, 1 day to Las Palmas, 25 days to St Maarten, 4 days to Grenada and then 1 day to Trinidad... = 44 days sailing.
on shore.. Cascais 20+8, Las Palmas 20+8= 56 days living at 4m high..


Now place between 2 metal things in water and shore, palm tree 1m from my boat until 26th of October... Waiting for engine solution

NY was good to be, 55 FD's, and a lot of people I know, 8 nights in a normal bed, nice temperature... very good..
5-14 sept I was in NY to sail Flying Dutchman races on the Hudson, next to the Statue of Liberty. All part of 400 year NewYork ..
www.ny400.org/events.php I sail with Peter van Veen in FD 69 (bownr 33)
more pictures and stories on http://www.sailfd.com/

No news.....???

no news... it really is no news, even the only 12 month old and hardly used NEW Mercedes engine ......... guess what .........

no news

Here you see the crack in the cylinder head, and metal parts found in the rest of the block..

bey bey Mercedes om 636. The bill was dated 30/07/08, a fully revised block from Drinkwaard Rotterdam.... Since then only 94 hours used

What next