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Showing posts with label repairs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label repairs. Show all posts
Tuesday, 17 June 2025

And we're off! (Summer 2025)

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After weeks of plumbing repairs 😢 on Pelagia by David, we're finally off. Headed up to Pender Harbour yesterday (Monday),...
Saturday, 6 August 2022

Mainland coast: south from Chapple Inlet, to Sointula (North Vancouver Island)

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Heading south: Chapple Inlet to Sointula   Our stay in Chapple Inlet after our long daytime sail across Hecate Strait turned into a 3-n...
Thursday, 26 May 2022

Week 1... ending in Sointula

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Desolation Sound: Towards Prideaux Haven We've made fast progress North.  Ballet Bay on night 1, Then Prideaux Haven (Desolation Sound) ...
Tuesday, 19 April 2022

Haulout in Nanaimo 2022 -- bookended by great sailing

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Nearing completion...   We booked a haulout at Stone's Boatyard in Nanaimo for 8am on April 5th. (Why Nanaimo? Well, we had an excellen...
Friday, 25 June 2021

Repairs and more delays...

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June 25, 2021 Decided to head up to Ha'thayim/VonDonop... a little closer to the rapids but still in warm water (swimming in the s...
Monday, 29 June 2020

Windlass woes (and eventual win)

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Windlass motor with broken "up" stub (circled)     June 16, 2020: Can't always be fun and games....  Windlass problems occur e...
Wednesday, 6 February 2019

Some serious wrist bling!

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Bionic wrist bling Six weeks post surgery, Michelle's wrist is making good progress. Xrays show some pretty substantial bling in he...
Monday, 31 December 2018

2018: A very "bumpy" year!

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Hiking in Bavaria, 2018: on top of the Shottelkarspitze Quite the year....  Started 2018 with Michelle's knee in a brace recover...
Friday, 2 February 2018

Mid-(ski)season Progress Report

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"Triumphant" return to Winter sports: Snowshoeing February 1 Two months of steady recovery for Michelle, diligently doing her...
Monday, 19 December 2016

Back skiing!

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3.5 weeks after tearing his right calf muscle, David is finally back on the mountain. Just in time as we received 31 cm of powder in ...
Friday, 2 December 2016

Instant old man...

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  Tons of snow for opening days at Whistler (November 23rd) and Blackcomb (November 24th) -- over 200 cm new snow in a week. Unfort...
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Thursday, 13 November 2014

Pelagia back in the water...

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Pelagia "splashed" Tuesday.  All went well until we tried to start the engine. Nothing. Yet we had brand new batteries. Looked f...
Monday, 20 October 2014

Back to Mexico (Mazatlan)

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After three wonderful weeks in our home at Whistler, we are now back in Mexico. At the Mazatlan airport, Michelle got the "green light...
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Wednesday, 15 January 2014

Free to pee again...

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Middle of the night, an unpleasant surprise: the head (toilet) has stopped working. Plunger jammed; will not go down. 2 am and David is tak...
Sunday, 22 September 2013

VANCOUVER to SAN FRANCISCO: The culprit (of our steering problems)

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Here it is, the cause of our steering problems: Bad seals on cylinder shaft The seals on our Wagner cylinder were nearly gone -- espec...

A short sail out in San Francisco Bay (sea trial of steering fix)

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Yes, it is true, we went sailing yesterday! Our hydraulic steering was deemed (and seemed) "fixed" by Svenson's late Friday,...
Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Repairs in exotic places... we must be cruising!

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OK,  Alameda is not exactly "exotic" (but it is a nice,  friendly and relaxed place). We have done a number of fixes/improvement...
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Monday, 9 September 2013

VANCOUVER to SAN FRANCISCO: (recap) Neah Bay to San Francisco Days 5 to 7: Gales, steep seas & steering problems

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We had 48 hours of gales and steep seas off of the southern Oregon/northern California coasts. It was not fun, and made much worse by concer...
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