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

..Local Trinidad Mobile nr: 00 1 868 757 1524

More then a week in Trinidad now, weather better as expected, it is warm, and if it rains it really rains. But then the sun shines again AND I have a cover over the entire boat now. Thisway the boat stays more or less dry, I do not have to worry that the hatches are open if it rains (only some water comes in) and the direct sunlight stays of the deck.. So simple blue Gamma sail does the trick..
Tomorrow I move to Powerboat where I'll be in calmer water, here at Peake it's rocking and rolling. There I'll be able to do some work on the mast etc..
Yesterday I was with friends at Maracas beach, nice drive to the otherside of the island though the rainforrest. and then perfect big beach with hte palmtrees and nice waves to play in.

Weather nice if you are swinging under cover...

Position of Condor is nice, 30sec walk to restaurant and arconditioned pool tables.. We made sunroof over entire boat and a hammack under it. Even in the boat it is very good now. I've biked to TTSE yachtclub yesterday, where laser sailing etc is, but the summer is of season here, it start in novenbre again..

Tomorrow work starts again, the clutch is slipping, the diesel pump to daytank keeps running (leek in line somewhere?), mainsail lost all battens, so take it off and have repaired, find the rigger and see when he has time to have a look, find some one to have good look at my engine.

I already found some one called David (local plummer) who can fix my cooker, but first appointment satureday.. NO SHOW.. I made appiontment 1 hour before and he knows the place where I am.. very strange ..

And much more to do.. I'll tell all about it later..

cheers Han

Kiki and Thomas

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