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Heading North - At Last!
Admiral 40 Oceans Dream - Hot hot hot18/11/2009, Coral Cove Marina
A mere 293 days since arriving in Trinidad and now has come the time to say our farewells. We've made many friends in our time here, some of whom we'll meet up with as we sail the Caribbean, others who make their living serving the cruising community who we feel privileged to call friends. Our thanks particularly go to Billy Wray (Surveyor and Friday Rum Buddy!) and to Dennis Moseley for all of their efforts with Oceans Dream.
19/11/2009 | Wayne Stone (waynets att comcast dott net)
Adrian and Jackie, we are just catching up on your latest saga sorry to hear about your boat issues. Fortunately we have had none of those problems. I am sure that when you finally get everything sorted out you will enjoy your admiral 40 as much as we have enjoyed ours. We still have not found another boat that has the lay out, room and comfort that we enjoy with ours. We would choose the same boat all over again. We have 16,500 miles on our boat in the last 15 months and the boat still performs great. Good luck we hope to see you in a harbor soon. Wayne
3rd Time Lucky
Admiral 40 Oceans Dream - Hot hot hot07/11/2009, On the Hard at PYS
OK, so what's the latest with regards to Oceans Dream? Well, having hauled last Friday we soon discovered the reason why we were taking on water in the port side. The culprit? Well, it turns out the trailing edge of the keels on our Admiral 40 were joined together with filler ... no sign of any fibreglass! It was possible to poke a wire in the exposed gap between the two halves of the keel in a number of places - as can be seen in the photo.
08/11/2009 | steve grycuk (stevegrycuk att aol dott com)
hi you must be pulling your hair out over poor build quality sound as though some legal adress is needed against builders,did u check other keel to see if filler was used as this could be problem in future regards steve
08/11/2009 | Adrian & Jackie (mail att oceansdream dott co dott uk)
Hi Steve. Great minds think alike! Our first action was to drill a hole to release the trapped water in the port keel, our second was to check the starboard keel. Fortunately it was dry although not surprisingly, only filler had also been used here to make the join. So we have glassed both sides. Regards.
History Repeats Itself - We've got a Leak!
Admiral 40 Oceans Dream - Hot hot hot30/10/2009, At Anchor in Chaguaramas Bay
What's the beeping noise - yes it was that all too familiar noise of the alarm alerting us to the fact that there was water in one of the bilges. We had heard this many times on our voyage up from Cape Town but did not want to hear it now. After much investigation we found where the water was coming from and it was not good news. It appeared that there was water getting into the keel and then up into the hulls. This meant that we would have to lift out of the water to further investigate.
02/11/2009 | Tony (antony dott hayman att wpa dott org dott uk)
She looked fantastic back on the water, lets hope it wont take long to patch up and get you back to sea.
02/11/2009 | Jackie & Adrian (mail att oceansdream dott co dott uk)
Awww, thanks Tone. We now know the extent of the fix, just need to work out timings - like you say ... hopefully not too long! Hope all's well at the ranch.
Houston Says we Are Go for Launch!
Admiral 40 Oceans Dream - Tropical Wave gives Heavy Thunderstorms28/10/2009, At Anchor in Chaguaramas Bay
Having been lifted from the water on 16 Feb 2009 after our trans Atlantic voyage from Cape Town to fix the long list of problems we had encountered, the day eventually arrived for Oceans Dream to be put back in the water where she truly belongs. The 28 October was scheduled for a pickup in the travelift at 1130 and a launch at 1300 giving us some time to put some antifoul paint on the small patches of the hull where she had been resting.
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