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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"

August 13, 2019

Pelican, Alaska

Position   N 57d 57.50
                W 136d 13.70

A guy and some friends established a cold storage along the Lisianski Inlet and named it after his boat, The Pelican.

As we were coming up to Pelican we could not raise the Harbormaster since it was Sunday and they were not working.  So we came in slowly and found there was an empty end berth.  The wind was 20 knots, only wind we have seen in nearly four days but as we were coming along side a couple of guys jumped out and helped us with our lines.  Just as we were coming alongside we lost our tachometer.  Once we were safely tied up, Mark began investigating to find that the tach wire got snagged by a loose fan belt.  The fan belt had split a layer off and had a flappy piece of cloth, which snagged the tach wire and pulled it into the pulley.  We noticed a couple of missing cable ties on the wire harness so this probably left the tach wire a bit more exposed.  We fixed a new one and then decided we would stay two days in Pelican in order to change the belts the next day.  So off we went for a walk.  Pelican is a boardwalk town, most of the houses and buildings are built on stilts.  They are serviced by lots of floatplanes, so part of the entertainment is watching float planes take off, land and taxi right next to your boat.  The next day we checked in with the harbormaster and purchased a couple of spare Racor filters before taking on the task of changing belts.  Belt changes on this engine are never easy so we decided to do some changes to make it slightly easier.  It is still troublesome but a bit easier.  We then went up to have a late lunch at the café we were told about, that is run by Matt and Dana’s friend.  We were too late, she only does breakfast and lunch but we had a brief conversation with her and said we would be back for breakfast the next day before we departed.
Pelican is a really neat experience and well worth our small detour after crossing the Gulf of Alaska.

view from the dock

the main street boardwalk

another view of the main street


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