PA

In the morning I head up to the marina office to speak with Ryan the harbormaster about the situation and ask if there is a mechanic he can recommend. I offer to pay the day’s moorage and he’s says that we better wait and see how long it takes. I make a joke about leaving broken boats in his marina that has a 5 year wait list to get into. This is a bad idea because I guess he forgot that the 44 foot Pearson I left for the owner to pick up after he got the fuel issue taken care of last year is still there. He tells me the owner said he would get it out of there the last time he saw him when he settle up for his previously accrued transient moorage but hadn’t heard from him since. Ryan went on to say that it was going to be a surprise when he came to pay again. I felt especially responsible because Har Rai was on that delivery too and it was looking like we were in a similar boat with a bunch of deferred maintenance to contend with on top of a challenging coastline.

I call Jon Palmer who is a shipmate I’ve spend many hours with offshore who lives in PA and he lends us a drill and drives us around to get parts. He is still in a cast which is the reason he couldn’t join on this delivery.

The mechanics show up at by noon and get to work trying to diagnose the issues with the gauges and coolant leak while the crew get to work on the other issues.

Tom gets into the anchor locker to diagnose if it is the port LED light that is only working intermittently or if its hat wiring. There are several short wires with non waterproof butt connectors used in the short run from the anchor locker bulkhead to the exit at the deck. The through deck fittings are leaking on both sides. The windless wires are the best looking part of the electrical system we have seen. That said the ground tackle is minimal. A 45 pound CQR is on a 50 foot run of chain. I told the owner that this was minimal and consistent with the boats history as a race boat and would be something he would want to remedy before going cruising but that we could adapt our plan to on the delivery. This is meaning we will plan to dock instead of wait out weather at anchor.. if we had to do so. (Something that was a consideration later in the passage. Tom and I discussed the possibility of weathering a blow at Port Orford and that the ground tackle would not be reliable.

We had been using the water speed indicator to guess cruising RPM and found that it was off so Max and I removed it and see if it had growth. We had Madison our resident filmographer document this as it is a harrowing thing to behold seeing how much water can come in through a 1.5 inch hole in the hull three feet below waterline for the few seconds it is out and before the dummy plug is in.

The “speedo” showed no growth to speak of so there is some other issue with it.