I'm starting to get some pictures of Strider's first real cruise.

See

http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/Sailing0608.htm

for a map and picture of my lovely crew.

One of the crew plans a more extensive gallery and web site that this
will link to so check back sometime for lots of pictures and stories
of this part of the coast.

The cruise was remarkable for having few learning experiences.
Despite some strong winds and long legs, there was almost no
excitement due to equipment failures or mistakes. The following
segment from another post bears repeating though. This method of
getting untangled from a lobster pot works very well. I'll try to
provide a picture later.

We did snag two lobster pots which made me a bit less sanguine about
that aspect of the boat. In both cases, however, it appeared to be
two pots that had tangled their lines so that they were stretched at
an unnatural direction.

My system for getting free worked so well that the snags were not much
more of an event than needing to reef.
I have a hookknife on board but chose not to used it and be left
wondering what might still be attached out of sight below. I'll use
it if I snag near a lee shore and need to restore control quickly but
the following method works very smoothly and quickly.

I have a large bronze snap hook tied to a line a few feet longer than
the boat. I fasten this to the end of a long extending boathook with
duct tape. If the tape is applied to the rope and hook properly, the
pole will guide the pot warp right into the hook. Once the line is
hooked, which was very quick and easy in both cases, the pole is
yanked free. Rolling up the jib and letting the main pull the warp
tight brings it up where it can be seen or felt with the pole.

Once the warp is clipped, the main is lowered and the line taken
through a bow chock and back to a halyard winch on the mast. This
pulls a bight of the warp forward and, in both cases, the buoy came
with it. It was then just a matter of winching the buoy aboard,
unclipping it, and getting underway again.

--

Roger Long

Interesting, well detailed pages. I may have miss details on what you have
done about the engine. I take it was raw water cool when you got the boat.
May be you can direct me on where to look on site to learn more on the
engine. TIA

"Roger Long" wrote in message
...
I'm starting to get some pictures of Strider's first real cruise.

See

http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/Sailing0608.htm

for a map and picture of my lovely crew.

One of the crew plans a more extensive gallery and web site that this
will link to so check back sometime for lots of pictures and stories
of this part of the coast.

The cruise was remarkable for having few learning experiences.
Despite some strong winds and long legs, there was almost no
excitement due to equipment failures or mistakes. The following
segment from another post bears repeating though. This method of
getting untangled from a lobster pot works very well. I'll try to
provide a picture later.

We did snag two lobster pots which made me a bit less sanguine about
that aspect of the boat. In both cases, however, it appeared to be
two pots that had tangled their lines so that they were stretched at
an unnatural direction.

My system for getting free worked so well that the snags were not much
more of an event than needing to reef.
I have a hookknife on board but chose not to used it and be left
wondering what might still be attached out of sight below. I'll use
it if I snag near a lee shore and need to restore control quickly but
the following method works very smoothly and quickly.

I have a large bronze snap hook tied to a line a few feet longer than
the boat. I fasten this to the end of a long extending boathook with
duct tape. If the tape is applied to the rope and hook properly, the
pole will guide the pot warp right into the hook. Once the line is
hooked, which was very quick and easy in both cases, the pole is
yanked free. Rolling up the jib and letting the main pull the warp
tight brings it up where it can be seen or felt with the pole.

Once the warp is clipped, the main is lowered and the line taken
through a bow chock and back to a halyard winch on the mast. This
pulls a bight of the warp forward and, in both cases, the buoy came
with it. It was then just a matter of winching the buoy aboard,
unclipping it, and getting underway again.

--

Roger Long

There isn't much about the engine on the site but here's the story.

It is a raw water cooled Yanmar 2QM20H installed in 1980 but was in
fresh water from at least 1985 until we bought the boat (according to
peeled off registration stickers). Judging from other things on the
boat, it never saw salt water except on sea trials and delivery.

The owner's put the boat away one year with fuel in the tank thinking
they would sail the boat the next year. The time on shore stretched
into six years before they put the boat on the market and we bought
it. When it came time to start the engine, all the fuel in the system
had turned to jelly and the fuel pump diaphragm had dissolved.

The Yanmar dealer out in Michigan told us that all the injectors
needed to be replace and probably the injector pump as well. We
negotiated a deal to have the engine work done in Maine after truck
delivery.

The yard here pumped out the tank and fuel system, flushed it, and put
in new fuel and a new fuel pump. The engine was reluctant to start
but, once we got it going it ran beautifully. No new parts needed
aside from the external fuel pump, a RW impeller, and zincs.

It's one of the best running engines I've ever known. When I started
it up this spring, it lit off just like it was warmed up in the middle
of a summer daysail. With the shaft line work described on the web
site, the whole installation runs smoother than I ever thought a two
cylinder diesel could be.

This is a great and reliable engine. I've seldom had more faith in a
piece of machinery (certainly not the one in the airplane I used to
fly) than this one and listening to it throb away on a long leg under
power is nearly as enjoyable as sailing.

--

Roger Long

"Roger Long" wrote in news:fMpGg.41465$1Z5.13235
@twister.nyroc.rr.com:

strong winds and long legs, there was almost no
excitement due to equipment failures or mistakes.

That just means you didn't have enough sail aloft. Was the handrail making
spray going through the water heeled over that far? No? Get back out
there! You weren't trying hard enough!....(c;

Nothing broke? Are you SURE you were out of the harbor??

--
There's amazing intelligence in the Universe.
You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.

"Larry" wrote in message
...
"Roger Long" wrote in news:fMpGg.41465$1Z5.13235
@twister.nyroc.rr.com:

strong winds and long legs, there was almost no
excitement due to equipment failures or mistakes.

That just means you didn't have enough sail aloft. Was the handrail
making
spray going through the water heeled over that far? No? Get back out
there! You weren't trying hard enough!....(c;

Nothing broke? Are you SURE you were out of the harbor??

--
There's amazing intelligence in the Universe.
You can tell because none of them ever called Earth.

He did say "almost."

--
"j" ganz @@
www.sailnow.com

Roger Long wrote:

I'm starting to get some pictures of Strider's first real cruise.

See

http://home.maine.rr.com/rlma/Sailing0608.htm

for a map and picture of my lovely crew.

One of the crew plans a more extensive gallery and web site that this
will link to so check back sometime for lots of pictures and stories
of this part of the coast.

The cruise was remarkable for having few learning experiences.
Despite some strong winds and long legs, there was almost no
excitement due to equipment failures or mistakes. The following
segment from another post bears repeating though. This method of
getting untangled from a lobster pot works very well. I'll try to
provide a picture later.

We did snag two lobster pots which made me a bit less sanguine about
that aspect of the boat. In both cases, however, it appeared to be
two pots that had tangled their lines so that they were stretched at
an unnatural direction.

My system for getting free worked so well that the snags were not much
more of an event than needing to reef.
I have a hookknife on board but chose not to used it and be left
wondering what might still be attached out of sight below. I'll use
it if I snag near a lee shore and need to restore control quickly but
the following method works very smoothly and quickly.

I have a large bronze snap hook tied to a line a few feet longer than
the boat. I fasten this to the end of a long extending boathook with
duct tape. If the tape is applied to the rope and hook properly, the
pole will guide the pot warp right into the hook. Once the line is
hooked, which was very quick and easy in both cases, the pole is
yanked free. Rolling up the jib and letting the main pull the warp
tight brings it up where it can be seen or felt with the pole.

Once the warp is clipped, the main is lowered and the line taken
through a bow chock and back to a halyard winch on the mast. This
pulls a bight of the warp forward and, in both cases, the buoy came
with it. It was then just a matter of winching the buoy aboard,
unclipping it, and getting underway again.

Roger Long wrote:
The cruise was remarkable for having few learning experiences.
Despite some strong winds and long legs, there was almost no
excitement due to equipment failures or mistakes.

That's not really cruising then, is it? Remember the
definition: "Cruising consists of fixing your boat in exotic
& inconvenient locations."



We did snag two lobster pots which made me a bit less sanguine about
that aspect of the boat. In both cases, however, it appeared to be
two pots that had tangled their lines so that they were stretched at
an unnatural direction.


Bummer... that makes it harder to miss 'em.

Since the advent of extremely cheap seafood flown in from
Asia, we've had far less of a crab pot & net problem,
cruising around here. But a summer cruise up your way sounds
like would be great fun.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

I am glad to hear about the diesel engine. The cleaning of the fuel tank was
a wise thing to do. The engine internal sacrificial anode must have been
replaced regularly and done a good job. Conversely I have heard that the
water jacket on some of the fresh water cool engine build around that time
had to be refurbished or replaced.



"Roger Long" wrote in message
...
There isn't much about the engine on the site but here's the story.

It is a raw water cooled Yanmar 2QM20H installed in 1980 but was in fresh
water from at least 1985 until we bought the boat (according to peeled off
registration stickers). Judging from other things on the boat, it never
saw salt water except on sea trials and delivery.

The owner's put the boat away one year with fuel in the tank thinking they
would sail the boat the next year. The time on shore stretched into six
years before they put the boat on the market and we bought it. When it
came time to start the engine, all the fuel in the system had turned to
jelly and the fuel pump diaphragm had dissolved.

The Yanmar dealer out in Michigan told us that all the injectors needed to
be replace and probably the injector pump as well. We negotiated a deal
to have the engine work done in Maine after truck delivery.

The yard here pumped out the tank and fuel system, flushed it, and put in
new fuel and a new fuel pump. The engine was reluctant to start but, once
we got it going it ran beautifully. No new parts needed aside from the
external fuel pump, a RW impeller, and zincs.

It's one of the best running engines I've ever known. When I started it
up this spring, it lit off just like it was warmed up in the middle of a
summer daysail. With the shaft line work described on the web site, the
whole installation runs smoother than I ever thought a two cylinder diesel
could be.

This is a great and reliable engine. I've seldom had more faith in a
piece of machinery (certainly not the one in the airplane I used to fly)
than this one and listening to it throb away on a long leg under power is
nearly as enjoyable as sailing.

--

Roger Long

On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 09:02:29 -0400, DSK wrote:

But a summer cruise up your way sounds
like would be great fun.

Your area of North Carolina is nice but Maine is absolutely the best
cruising on the east coast for my money. The only possible exception
is the Bahamian out islands but it's a bit of a stretch to call that
the east coast.

We were in Maine for 5 weeks last summer and might have stayed longer
except that it was starting to get cold at night in early September.

But a summer cruise up your way sounds
like would be great fun.


Wayne.B wrote:
Your area of North Carolina is nice but Maine is absolutely the best
cruising on the east coast for my money. The only possible exception
is the Bahamian out islands but it's a bit of a stretch to call that
the east coast.


Hey, if you call the Great Lakes part of the east coast, why
be picky?

Big rocks & big tides make me nervous, but it has always
been very appealing up there. The bugs are worse than down here.

We were in Maine for 5 weeks last summer and might have stayed longer
except that it was starting to get cold at night in early September.


Wuss.

In all honesty, I might not stick around even that late. It
would be nice to get to the other side of the overcrowded
part of New England for the season, then teleport back when
the weather began to turn.

DSK