11 September 2015 | HOME - Vancouver WA
24 August 2015 | 46 11.4'N:123 51.4'W, Port of Astoria Marina
22 August 2015 | 46 42.0'N:132 09,4'W, 330 West of CR Bouy, Astoria
21 August 2015 | 46 41.8'N:136 13.8'W, 500 West of Astoria
20 August 2015 | 46 22.82'N:140 28.00'W, East end of High
20 August 2015 | 46 22.80'N:140 28.32'W, Middle of High Same as Fish
20 August 2015 | 46 22.79'N:140 28.57'W, Middle of High
20 August 2015 | 46 22.7'N:140 30.2'W, 675 Miles West of CR
20 August 2015 | 45 57.6'N:144 54.0'W, East End of the High
18 August 2015 | 44 38.2'N:147 57.0'W, 1000 NM to Astoria
18 August 2015 | 43 31.0'N:150 28.0'W, 1126 NM to Astoria
17 August 2015 | 41 40.1'N:153 00.1'W, 1200 miles West of Astoria
16 August 2015 | 39 30.1'N:154 53.1'W, West end of the North Pacific High
15 August 2015 | 37 34.5'N:156 00.0'W, 1011 North of Oahu
15 August 2015 | 37 04.5'N:156 23.0'W, 983 North of Oahu
14 August 2015 | 34 12.3'N:157 26.1'W, 800 North of Oahu
13 August 2015 | 31 50.0'N:158 06.5'W, 650 North of Oahu
12 August 2015 | 29 02.0'N:158 51.0'W, 330 North of Oahu
11 August 2015 | 26 32.0'N:158 59.0'W, 330 North of Oahu
09 August 2015 | 23 44.1'N:158 49.4'W, 140 N of Oahu
Out of Papeete (maybe)
14 July 2012 | 17 30.3'S:149 49.3'W, Moorea
John
On Tuesday I chased down a medical oxygen bottle and proceeded to try and find a regulator for it. Michael the Cook Island taxi driver was helping me chase it down. The day passed without finding a source so we gave up. When I woke the next morning he had texted me that he thought Tahiti Marine had one so I took a taxi there and sure enough they had the regulator.
We pulled away from the dock on Wednesday the 11th at the Quay in downtown Papeete for the final time after a final trip to the store and Tahiti Marine. Headed towards Taina Marina on the South end of Papeete for fuel. Got to the dock at 5 after noon and all was closed for the next hour so we strolled over and had lunch at the Marina Restaurant. After lunch we fueled up and headed for the South pass and on to Moorea. Just before we went through the pass we got an idiot light that indicated overheat on the starboard engine. Shut it down and ignored it until we got closer to Moorea.
Half hour before we enter the pass to Cook's bay I dropped down into the starboard engine compartment to chase down the overheat problem. Not a good sign. We have a very large muffler on each engine and when the water pump impellor went it overheated the hose connector to the muffler and destroyed it. I yanked the muffler and the impellor out then took a shower and we all met some other boaters in town for pizza. Now it will be an early departure by taxi to the ferry for a trip back to Papeete.
I catch the taxi at 0600 and the ferry at 0700 and arrive in Papeete at 0730 where I catch another taxi to carry me around to several marine stores in pursuit of a muffler fitting. This fitting is special and I fear there will not be any to be had. After three marine stores, the most likely ones, I go to a specialty store that deals in much larger marine items. They had the same brand mufflers but they were all much smaller or larger and they said there would not be any in the islands and that it would take at least two weeks to have it shipped in. An alternate plan had to be improvised. Off to the Ace hardware store. Now I am chasing down PVC plumbing parts to fabricate a suitable substitute. I grab what I think I need and have the taxi driver take me back to the ferry. It is 0915 as we pull up to the ferry terminal and are watching the ferry pull away from the dock. Next ferry is 1200. I pay the taxi and then off to have some breakfast hauling all my parts and the n walk up to the Tahiti Marine store to look for some additional scuba gear. Now here I sit on the steps of the ferry terminal and it is 1100. Pull out some of the PVC parts a pen and a hacksaw and proceed to measure, mark and cut my pieces to fabricate the fitting. Got it all ready to glue together when the ferry arrived and it was time for me to board. Got back to the boat by 1300, had lunch and glued the pieces together and installed the fabricated piece and installed the new impellor in the pump and she was fixed and running well by 1600.
I attacked the other engine impellor the next morning figuring that both engines have had the same number of hours since the impellors were last replaced so odds were good they both needed it.
We orginally were planning on leaving Moorea today for Huahini but after down loading the weather we decided to hold off until at least tomorrow and that may slip to the next. Will have some gale force gusts tonight and in to tomorrow. When we get to Huahini it is only a four hour sail to Bora Bora and should be able to get Walt to the airport in time. Huahini has several good dive site so we should still be able to get a couple of good dives in before he has to leave.
The final episode of the diving incident ends with some real closure to the problem I encountered. It is called Immersion Pulmonary Edema (IPE). It happens to divers and swimmers who have over excerted themselves. For those who want to know more about it, I suggest you look it up on the web. Diver's Alert Network have had several articles on the subject and have also done a study to try and determine the real cause. My final visit with the cardiologist gave me a clear bill of health to include my blood work up which came out very good. There was one slight indication of elevated triglycerides indicating border line diabetic but there was another indication that showed the borderline to be false. So I am sitting here with a toddy writing this blog to all. The cardiologist that did the angiogram said I shouldn't do any deep diving for at least 3 months and that no doctor in France would certify me to dive but at the same time the cardiologist I first saw and recommended the angiogram told me to keep the diving to shallow 10 meter dives for the next month or two. He also told me to get to the surface at the first sign of hacking up my lungs as that is one of the first signs. Now you see the reason for the medical oxygen.
That's all for now.
John