Position 15 d 58.71 N 142 d 03.10 E Well we are over two hundred and twenty
miles closer to Okinawa. The weather is pretty calm. We are motorsailing now
for the next couple of hours. As the wind and waves were making the boat toss
more than she needed to do. We are hand steering as the hydraulic valve the
controls the back flow into the wheel etc kept sticking and would stick with the
autopilot turning us hard to starboard. I believe I have a spare on board as
this valve has gone before nad i refurbished the old one, but hey seem to be
undersized for big seas and full sails as that is how both went. I think we
will just hand steer to Japan and figure out how to get bigger ones there or
else go for a beefier autopilot. we certainly do not want to hand steer to
Alaska. Good news is Sari Timur is a good boat to hand steer. Note the font on
this is pretty small and Chris has informed me she won't correct grammer so
doing this outside with a converted Jap-anese keyboard where only half of the
keys are where they are supposed to be is a challenge. So if this is hard to
read imagine how it is to type and send. Plus I have always been grammatically
challanged
Cheers 0800 Chamorro Standard Time
About Me
- SY Sari Timur
- Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
- 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"
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