Get up have some goodies like coffee and food. Sit around and chat. Remove canvas and start motor. Leave slip, go pump out and sail to la Play anchorage. Drop hook. Play guitar chat and read. Then up anchor showing off all the new goodies. Dock and go back home - boo ho to going back home😌.
June 2010 - Currently At Marina Cortez Harbor Island, San Diego, CA
We left the slip motor purring and were heading to the lovely pump out station when the engine died. Oh no! OK a nuclear attack is worst but not much. After a quick chat we realized each thought the other had turned on the fuel. We then decide it was time for a checklistt. No despair, the wind was pushing us down the channel towards the pump out station and we had lots or some room on either side. We tried a few tricks like the electric fuel pump. No good. Hay the starting battery I just hooked up was and did work fine! All twenty five times, well a bunch that we tried it. So we sailed back up the channel with the jib and called, who else vessel assist. It was going to take 45 min so we decide the wind was favorable so why not sail back into the slip? Debbie took the helm and I took the jib sheet. We did great. Now our slip is for a 35’ boat and is about 6 inches wider than out boat. Not that easy to get into without bouncing around and maybe out. Debbie has been doing a lot of the docking and is been spot on when getting into the slip. She nailed it this time also. The dock master’s (can be a grumpy guy) sail boat is across from ours and you know there are a lot of ways to look bad on this one. Any way we did great and of course there was nobody looking. Now if we had had missed… there would have been a huge audience, just that’s the way it is. I wish we could have had a picture of us high fiving our first sail into the slip.
Also:
We have a windward slip so that helps a lot. We have sailed into our slip a bunch with the Catalina 30 but the boat is smaller and lighter so easier to handle. Also we are just learning this boat so we would not have chosen to sail into the slip until we are better acquainted with the boat. As I said before a lot can go wrong and people can get hurt and or stanchions and bow pulpits can get bent etc. I just held onto the jib long enough to get into the slip. I almost did not power it enough to get into the slip. I let go of it and it started flapping around and then I walked to the bow ¾ up and stepped off onto our steps grabbing a bow line before leaving the boat. If we had not made that ten feet we would have been blown back into the boats across from us. It would have been ugly. Also if Debbie had not nailed the slip we would have been in trouble. For instance the boat next to us in stern in and has a bow pulpit sticking out or again we would have been blown into the other boats. Although it is a bit easier to backwind the main to stop. I think I like using the jib better. It seems we have more control over the speed of the boat while approaching. We now have a better handle on the boat. We also have finger piers on both sides of our boat at this marina.
Now for bleeding the Perkins 101 with a dock mate on Tuesday evening.
07/30/10
Last night I went to the boat and a dock mate helped me bleed the fuel lines on the Perkins. We cheated and bleed them from the injectors. Was not really hard to do, a bit messy but worked out fine. I will find out if it can be done that way all the time. We used an electric fuel pump installed by the PO and the hand pump on the engine. Also turned the motor over several times with the throttle wide open.
Now on the Beta engine there is just a little valve you turn to bleed the fuel line and it is located on the right front of the motor where it is easy to get at.
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