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?
Laundry day
So we started the gen set. It happened that at the time we were moving briskly (over 8 knots and heeling to starboard.) This raises the salt water pump in the engine several inches higher than normal for a level vessel. The pump didn't prime (again) and we shut down for overheating. DRAT. Later, when the engine had cooled and the boat was substantially level, we primed the pump with fresh water and restarted the gen set. It runs and continues running when we do this. So....after 12 years...I conclude that the gen set is mounted a little too high above the waterline. Can you believe it? The middle of the ocean is not the best place to figure this out. But we know how to work around the problem so we'll manage until we get to the next boatyard (probably New Zealand).
We also have a new tear in our mainsail. It is in the luff, just below the third batten and opens a hole about a foot by a foot. We'll patch it this morning after breakfast.
We've been getting wind and are shortly entering the region of the trade winds (according to the GRIB files). It is really amazing to sail continuously for days without running the engine. The thunderstorms are affecting the wind though. We get winds of over 20 knots, winds from forward of the beam (say it isn't so!) and short periods where the wind is not blowing. I'd call it superposition of the trade winds plus the thunderstorm winds. It's working for us in a region where we thought we might have to motor for days. No one aboard is complaining! But we are looking forward to the trade winds that are shortly going to be moving us to the Marquesas.
Trip log: 11676 Distance to go: 2827 nm Current heading 225M Current speed 6 kn Distance from Galapagos: 324 nm
