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?
Leaving tomorrow
We got the new Jeppesen C-Map charts installed on both computers, just like Rose Point navigation people said we could. It took $30 USD worth of phone calls and an internet connection to get it done, but we did succeed. I'm not going to say that it was difficult, but the passcode for unlocking the charts was to type the bible in (in reverse) with a few special characters added in the third psalm and in Genesis.
Karen is ashore getting more chicken. Yesterday was eggs. Day before yesterday was milk. I need to go ashore and get an ice cream bar. Then I need to return to the boat and take a nap!
We had difficulty with overheating of our generator. The fix turned out to be easy. We primed the water intake with pressure water from the fresh water system routed into the salt water intake and then blead the salt water pump to eliminate an air bubble that was inhibiting flow. We have also removed half the engine cover and stored it separately from the gen set. The additional cooling seems to be needed in this hot environment. It is louder now when we run the gen set, but the gen set makes electricity. We need it to work more than we need quiet.
You can see that the further we get from Seattle, the more willing to make compromises we become. In the BIG world, we do the best we can and hope that something critical doesn't break in a way we cannot jury rig a fix. One reason to move on is that the longer we stay in one place, the more likely that the vessel will not be able to leave due to a necessary repair (either to the vessel or to the crew). But for now the stars are aligned in a good way and we should leave tomorrow.
