- Joined
- Jun 25, 2008
- Messages
- 10,123
- Location
- Australia
- Vessel Name
- Now boatless - sold 6/2018
- Vessel Make
- Had a Clipper (CHB) 34
Coming in late on this, but a hearty welcome. The boat looks like a cracker, love the layout, and a Gardner to boot! Lucky you.
Pete ,sorry to hear of your travails............if only you had twins.
Well, you're right Andy. The part that failed was one engine issue that would have allowed a limp home on a second engine. We're pretty sure it is the lift pump, not bad fuel or flat batteries or anything else that would affect both if twin engined.
As to my single engine docking skills. Thanks for the vote of confidence Bruce, and yes, I have found I can handle virtually any docking situation as long as that one precious engine is running, so would hardly ever have a need now for a thruster. But I can tell you, coming in under tow, with a honking 20kn south-easterly Wednesday afternoon, the thing uppermost in my mind was how in heck can we safely dock with no power for steering or, more importantly, stopping power..? The latter was solved by the skilled VMR Jacob's Well folk shifting from a front tow to side on tow, when we stopped temporarily outside the marina, then taking us in that way, and that allowed a reasonably straightforward docking on the fuel dock which is reasonably long, as there was no way they could take us into our berth finger. However, even though the marina staff walked her along to a nearby visiter berth the next morning, they obviously want us out of there asap. Hopefully the part will not be hard to get.
