Sunrise: Chasing the dream

Life filled with adventure, both actual and spiritual.

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The check list begins

24 April 2013 | Shelter Bay Marina, Colon, Panama
Isobel off Isla Linton

We are in a Marina (09 22.029'n:079 57.073'w), getting ready for the Canal and a passage to Salinas Ecuador. Here is our "Pre-Passage check list"

Passage departure checklist:

Clean dinghy
Wire tie shackles
Drogue in aft lazerette
secondary chain in aft lazzerette
Engine check
RIgging check
Fuel and Gasoline
AIS functional
Steering cables
Clean bottom
Water? Jugs or water bag.
Food
Snacks
Nav lights test
Mast head light dial to Nav
Lee clothes set up

Aft bunk ditch supplies:
-Isobel's Type I accessible
-thru hole plugs
-Med kit
-first aid kit
-Secondary ditch bag
--guys
--Earth shaking music
--fleeces and hats
-flare box accessible and secure
-Type one PFD checked/lights

Carbide in hack saw
drive bit in screw driver
Monitor autopilot ready
flares and horn accessible
ditch bag accessible
EPIRBs test if not in past month
Charged IPAD
Charged Radios
Charge headlamps
Charge Computers
Charge work light and spot light
Handheld in Ditch bag

Ditch check list posted
Monitor wind-vane set up
Work all sea cocks
Tris'l rigged with blocks
secure trash can
Life sling
Throw line
MOB block and tackle preped
Computer GPS in place
Paper charts
screw floor
Bimini straps

Waypoints in GPS or plotter
clearance out
Destination entry procedures
Jacklines and tethers
preventors
Book case fiddles on
Anchor lashed and blocked
Dinghy on deck and tied
Dingy engine drained and stowed
shades off and stowed
Drawer straps and stops
Eye and sun Glasses clean
Main cover off
Jib Halyard tensioned
clicker in cockpit
Hatches and ports closed
Instruments on
Anchor alarm off
Windlass and washdown on
Wheel lock off
Engine neutral
Comments
Vessel Name: Sunrise
Vessel Make/Model: Hallberg Rassy 38
Hailing Port: Dorset, VT
Crew: Bill, Lara and Isobel Calfee
About: We left Lake Champlain September 18th, 2009. Isobel was 7 months old
Home Page: http://www.sailblogs.com/member/beherenowii
Sunrise's Photos - Main
1 Photo
Created 8 September 2016
5 Photos | 1 Sub-Album
Created 5 August 2016
An amazing day out with two local guys on Moorea, Polynesia
30 Photos
Created 27 September 2014
22 Photos
Created 27 May 2014
2013 trip to Peru
4 Photos
Created 15 August 2013
4 Photos
Created 6 June 2013
E-dock community
8 Photos | 2 Sub-Albums
Created 27 May 2013
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Created 4 March 2013
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Created 2 March 2013
Repairs to the teak deck
No Photos
Created 21 July 2011
The survey and other early photos
1 Photo | 3 Sub-Albums
Created 22 February 2011
1 Photo | 2 Sub-Albums
Created 22 February 2011
3 Sub-Albums
Created 18 February 2011
A new crew member joins Be Here Now II
13 Photos | 1 Sub-Album
Created 17 February 2009
44 Photos
Created 15 December 2008
A 20 day journey across the Atlantic Ocean
48 Photos
Created 14 December 2008
During the summers 2005-2007 we sailed Lake Champlain on Be Here Now, our 23' Seafarer Kestrel
30 Photos
Created 20 January 2008
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