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Alaska, United States
I am owned by Pauline and Mark Blasky. My hull was built at the Duncan Marine Yard in Taiwan and launched in Dec of 1980. It is a William Garden design based on the Pixie Design and called by Duncan Marine a Freedom 45. They are the fourth owners and have owned me the longest. They have done extensive refitting to me including replacing my entire deck structure and rig. My masts are roughly 10% taller than original and now are made of aluminium as opposed to the original wood ones, which, though pretty, were always problematic. You can read more about me under "MORE ABOUT SARI TIMUR"

May 30, 2019

Progress

Well, Sari Timur is showing her minders that she doesn't like sitting for most of the time for the last three plus years.  We are finding lots of little ways she is demanding attention.  And we are slowly knocking them off.  First, we found a diesel leak last year on the main engine when it ran.  Some investigation into that proved it was the injector pump front seal.  Injector pumps scare us so we hired a mechanic to help us get it off and sent to the injector pump rebuild people.  They completely rebuilt it and it looks shiny and new.  In January when Mark was battling those 70+ knot storms on the tug boat, Pauline was keeping Sari Timur safe.  There were only a couple of damages, the Maretron wind instrument got destroyed and a tang broke off the hawsepipe thruhull cleat.  An exact replacement wasn't available so we ordered a pair of brand new stainless ones.  This meant after removing the old ones, we had to modify the holes as the new holes were slightly longer and thinner.  Some grinding, glassing, epoxy, drilling and caulk and they are now in.  We still have to paint the hull around these but they look great and the painting can be done while in the Sound.

We went to hank on the head sail and found the roller furler jammed up.  So we hooked up the bosun's chair to pull Mark up top and found the windless didn't work.  A bit of trouble-shooting on that and he got the motor working again but some internal corrosion is making it weak.  So replacement parts are now on their way (should be arriving today) and we are struggling along with the old windlass motor in the meantime.  We replaced the wind instruments with an Airmar as Maretron no longer manufactures one.  And we really like having the full weather station option up there.  The furler problem seems to be the grease we had on there hardened and oxidized.  We finally have it all down.  A major chore with a damaged windlass.  Climbing the forestay is a real chore as it has such a large angle to the mast.  Many of you probably remembered Mark falling from the top of the mast while trying to work his way down the forestay many years ago.  He still needs to do a complete inspection of the forestay and clean it but he is pretty convinced it was just gunked up really badly and not a broken wire strand like we feared might be the problem.

We ordered a new freezer and instead of putting it under the chart table where we have flooded two other ones, we have decided to sacrifice a portion of the quarterberth.  This really hasn't been used for anything but storage since Roger helped Mark get Sari Timur back from Africa in 1995.  It looks good there and is actually easier to get at.  It does mean making another cushion cover for the cushion that is there and now only 2/3s the size but that can be done while cruising.

The dinghy outboard is at the small motor repair shop.  It is just a carburetor issue but may be the thing that holds back our departure by a few days.  Otherwise things are coming together.  We still have lots of work to do provisioning and stowing but things are coming together.  We are still trying to get out of here on the 7th but that is a Friday and probably the 10th is a more realistic target.

May 17, 2019

The Igloo Is Off

Sari Timur is looking much more like herself.  We got the Igloo off and now are starting to tidy up the deck from everything we had stored under it for the winter.  Will be a bit of fun!!!! getting everything stored before we begin cruising next month.


May 16, 2019

Success

Mark received his 500 ton master's license with the full oceans and international endorsements.  His sailing endorsement is limited to 100 tons only and his towing endorsement is still for a mate's position until he accumulates another year as a mate of a towing vessel.

He is extremely happy!