your so right on this vid.. nice way to stay away from yacht sales, don't say anything :) the 800 a day 100 ton charter guy was funny also. What license do you hold ? The knots was another good one! I'm most interested on the Lee statement. The Viking that beached was running in the Lee or Windward ? You have Sailing Roots ? I run in the Lee often and if it's blowing good it's my favorite "ESE" "East" "ENE" wind while in Naples Florida. I can still get into the Gulf and go north and south in nice calm seas. If there was a Full Propulsion failure the worst that would happen before dropping anchor if needed to investigate would be I'd start drifting with the tide Mostly North or South and the wind would push me further offshore ? I actually got lucky exiting the Gordon Pass a couple years ago with a strong outgoing tide and an Easterly wind when both Diesel engines failed within seconds of each other. I'm not sure dropping anchor would have worked in the Pass so I let the boat drift out before dropping the anchor ( lucky ) It turned out to be the gasket material used to cap the fuel tanks where the hoses and shutoffs were mounted. The material would degrade from the fuel over time ( 12-24 months ) and turn into tiny beads that would accumulate in the ball area of the Racors. So even thought the bowls looked perfect and the fuel looked clean danger was lurking. Although taking all the parts of the Racors apart and cleaning was on a maintenance program depending on what glass bowl would tell me I now break them down more frequently regardless of what the fuel looks like just in case there's something building up in that area that isn't visible otherwise.
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Petoskey, MI ( Pe-tos-key)
How a coward like Francesco Schettino became a captain of a boat with 290m with 3,700 passengers?
your so right on this vid.. nice way to stay away from yacht sales, don't say anything :) the 800 a day 100 ton charter guy was funny also. What license do you hold ?
The knots was another good one!
I'm most interested on the Lee statement. The Viking that beached was running in the Lee or Windward ?
You have Sailing Roots ?
I run in the Lee often and if it's blowing good it's my favorite "ESE" "East" "ENE" wind while in Naples Florida. I can still get into the Gulf and go north and south in nice calm seas. If there was a Full Propulsion failure the worst that would happen before dropping anchor if needed to investigate would be I'd start drifting with the tide Mostly North or South and the wind would push me further offshore ? I actually got lucky exiting the Gordon Pass a couple years ago with a strong outgoing tide and an Easterly wind when both Diesel engines failed within seconds of each other.
I'm not sure dropping anchor would have worked in the Pass so I let the boat drift out before dropping the anchor ( lucky )
It turned out to be the gasket material used to cap the fuel tanks where the hoses and shutoffs were mounted. The material would degrade from the fuel over time ( 12-24 months ) and turn into tiny beads that would accumulate in the ball area of the Racors. So even thought the bowls looked perfect and the fuel looked clean danger was lurking. Although taking all the parts of the Racors apart and cleaning was on a maintenance program depending on what glass bowl would tell me I now break them down more frequently regardless of what the fuel looks like just in case there's something building up in that area that isn't visible otherwise.