New Winch

The New Mizzen Halyard Winch Mounted and Loaded

Pauline arrived back on Sari Timur last week.

Mark just arrived back to Sari Timur on the 23rd of April.  The last five days of the trip they ran into system after system creating enough seas that they had to slow the barges down to sometimes under a knot in forward speed.  Frustrating when they were so close to the destination.  

They were several days over the original estimate and therefore earning a bit more cash.  Mark decided to take some of this cash and purchase a winch for the mizzen mast halyard.  Fisheries Supply in Seattle was selling them at a reasonable price so once they passed 22 days offshore he ordered it and one of the guys shoreside picked it up for him.  It is a two speed Andersen 34 and is self tailing.  The winch it replaced was a single speed 16 and not self tailing.  So we now have more than double the power to deal with the mizzen and the ability to use both hands.  Not to mention it is a pretty piece of boat jewelry.