SV Panta Rhei Retirement Trip
| Vessel Name: | Panta Rhei |
| Vessel Make/Model: | Able Apogee 50 |
| Hailing Port: | Seattle |
| Crew: | Larry and Karen |
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18 September 2017 | Seattle
We are back in Seattle
It feels like home. Of course we are not in Silshole. Maybe we will be, someday, but there is a list and we are on it. In the meantime we are at Bainbridge Island Marina.
23 August 2017 | Prince Rupert
The dinghy holds air again
It wasn't very nice of the bear to tear the fabric across a seam. We were worried that we couldn't patch it but tried anyway. The glue had a job to do and it did it!
15 August 2017 | Anan Bear Observatory
A Grizzly Bear damaged our dinghy
We were visiting the Anan Bear Observatory south of Wrangell. It is one of the best places to visit in all of SE Alaska BECAUSE it has bears. But (as we learned) there is a dark side to this bear concentration. And of course, there is a story to tell.
19 July 2017 | Petersburg, AK
Moving On
"No matter where you go, there you are" (unknown reference). By now we have been there and done that. Most recently that included Cannery Cove on Admiralty Island. The photo shows the quiet grandeur of the setting with Ron and Suzie's boat SV Tango in the foreground. It has been like that for the last [...]
17 June 2017 | Hoonah, AK
We are in Hoonah, SE Alaska now
We got something resembling a high pressure ridge so we moved expeditously across the Gulf of Alaska. The crossing took three days and weather stayed as forecast. That was a very good thing. The weather changes in the far north far more rapidly and dramatically than we ever experienced in the more southern [...]
03 June 2017 | Seward AK
Crossing the Gulf of Alaska
We are still in Seward, AK. Now that spring has come, why not start south?
Left overs for dinner tonight
We're cleaning up loose ends of the refurbishment task.
While we were away Air Technology (Laurie) got the scuba compressor reassembled and re-installed in the engine compartment. It was a tough job. Key problems were that the second stage piston needed to be re-ringed and there were cracks causing leaks in the high pressure air/water separator. We've started qualification testing and found additional leaks in the installation controls. Most are addressed but there is one more fitting that we found leaking due to a crack (What's with all these cracks?) and that work may get done today.
We've also had our life raft disassembled, inspected, refurbished and repacked. They found a broken flashlight and of course all the expendables were replaced (flares, water, food, batteries). That gets us to the subject of our post: Dinner tonight will be supplemented by rations from the liferaft titled "SOS Survival Food Rations". Gotta be nutritous, right? Maybe they will be better than freeze dried camping food? We'll get a pizza to hold as a "plan B".
For the curious, the seasickness tablets that were replaced are boxes containing subpackages of 2 tablets of 50 mg size whose active ingredient is dimenhydrinate, an antiemetic. We kept them for our medicine chest so we have about 40 years supply aboard Panta Rhei now.
The picture shows the expendables that were replaced.
