Well we are on the hard on our new to us boat and then we start our lifestyle. We are brand new and are amazed how exhausted we are every night! Loved this video!
The sea air and motion of the boat will leave you feeling tired but fulfilled at the end of a good days sailing. We were a little jaded with it at that time and happy to stop for a while. Everyone experiences it differently based on alsorts of variables but the only way to find your path is to get out and give it a go! Exciting times for you guys 😍⛵️
Really relatable video and enjoyed this episode!! Nobody will even comprehend what goes into this lifestyle and us cruisers are learning along the way! Love the honesty ⛵️
😁 I can understand that. Just picked up our new boat Ben Oc 40 lots of great feeling. Loaded kit and started to run through the boat and found broken electrics for windlass. Cleaned all the green now to sail back to Plymouth but there is a low coming in. 🤣
Hi yes indeed the 391 is a lovely boat, she’s looked after us very well. We did list her for sale late last year then took her off again as we decided to at least sail her back to the U.K. However that journey is getting close to completion and we are likely to be listing her again very soon. Drop us a line if you are interested 😊⛵️followintrepidbear@gmail.com
Hi 😊 Well it’s bit beyond my full understanding but apparently inside the diesel injection pump is something called a fuel rack. It controls the speed of the engine but is not directly connected to the throttle. The throttle tells the fuel injection pump what you want but the fuel rack in conjunction with the governor actually controls how much fuel gets to the engine. Apparently it’s not uncommon for that fuel rack to just get gummed up with dirt and age over the years. According to the guy who took the injection pump off it can also result in diesel runaway where the engine revs itself to death unless you shut the fuel off 😱 So he thought we were lucky it was only poor throttle response and cutting out that we suffered! Anyway the mechanic sent it away to a specialist who stripped it and cleaned it all out and it’s fine now. I’m fairly mechanically minded but the inner workings of the fuel injection pump (which is not the same as the fuel supply pump) are a bit of a mystery to me so I was in the hands of others but luckily they did a good job 👍🏻😊
I heard very little whinging. A bit of realism, and the fuel rack and consequently engine issue must have been a worry. Presumably it wasn’t evident and so no option to ‘do anything’ while at anchor, as no idea what might need some ‘anything’ doing to it? Glad you got in okay. And was that a preventer going over the port rail to the midships cleat?
@@iainhunneybell hi….i tried all I knew at anchor to resolve the engine issue, raised the idle a little and made sure the fuel filters were clear but it took a mechanic and diesel specialist to take the injection pump away to discover that it was gummed up inside which was causing fuel rack issues. It was all sorted and good as gold once we left Almerimar bound for Gib. Yes that’s a preventer line on the port side however we’d hardened up onto the wind a bit but hadn’t de-rigged it so it’s just slack in that clip. It wouldn’t be any good pressing on the rails like that under tension. Once we go more downwind then we can tighten it up.. 👍🏻😊⛵️
The 'gummy fuel pump' was bad diesel, or just age @@FollowIntrepidBear? Just a useful lesson on what to watch for and try and prevent 🙂 And yes, quite so re the preventer 😁
@ as far as I know mainly age. According to the Spanish diesel specialist it’s not uncommon on Yanmars of that age. However I have my suspicions about the brown goo at the bottom of the tank because it didn’t look like your usual diesel bug. There is a relatively recent phenomenon call “sticky diesel”, give it a google, which could gum up an injector pump. I’m not saying we had sticky diesel necessarily but the brown goo in the tank was a mystery and didn’t look like what I understand diesel bug to look like…who knows! 🤷🏻♂️😬😂
Your sails look good and clean given the long season. Anyone who liveaboard cruises understands what you are saying. Your faux par, as you identify clearly, is rushing because you seek to go to too far in the time, and this brings the wrong sort of stress.
Thank you…I’m not sure the sails bear close scrutiny and have never fully recovered from the mud rain in Gibraltar a couple of years ago but they’re not doing too badly. And yes, for various reasons, we’ve ended up doing too many miles each season. Schengen doesn’t help but we’ve also made tactical errors along the way. Would love a WHOLE season just floating round the Ionian but we’re headed home now where the weather might be worse but we’ll never have that visa time deadline to worry about. There’s just the small matter of 1100 miles home! (Although in real time we’re currently in Porto so only about 5 days sailing from home 😊🇬🇧) There are changes coming but we’ll chat more about that as we get into season 4 and the voyage home 😊
Well we are on the hard on our new to us boat and then we start our lifestyle. We are brand new and are amazed how exhausted we are every night! Loved this video!
The sea air and motion of the boat will leave you feeling tired but fulfilled at the end of a good days sailing. We were a little jaded with it at that time and happy to stop for a while. Everyone experiences it differently based on alsorts of variables but the only way to find your path is to get out and give it a go! Exciting times for you guys 😍⛵️
Great season, but good choice on calling a halt. When the fun meter is pegged it is time to take a break. We have all been there.
“When the fun meter is pegged” That’s a great way to put it, I may steal that phrase….thank you 😊⛵️
Really relatable video and enjoyed this episode!! Nobody will even comprehend what goes into this lifestyle and us cruisers are learning along the way! Love the honesty ⛵️
Thanks guys…yes it’s definitely not all sunshine and cocktails eh?! 😬😂⛵️
I used to live near Torrevieja and still own a house there. We used to go to Cartagena for Paella and shopping.
Nice part of the world and you can’t beat a good Spanish Paella! 😍
No wonder you were exhausted, you covered an awful amount of miles. And there was a lot of challenging conditions along the way. Well done 👍🏻
Thanks Lynn….yep way too many miles! Going home for a rest this season! 😬😂
😁 I can understand that. Just picked up our new boat Ben Oc 40 lots of great feeling. Loaded kit and started to run through the boat and found broken electrics for windlass. Cleaned all the green now to sail back to Plymouth but there is a low coming in. 🤣
Aha! That’ll be the same low that’s currently currently halted our northwards progress on the Portuguese coast! Safe passage to Plymouth 😊⛵️
Hello... the N391 is an amazing boat... you had yours for sale, right?... not anymore?
Hi yes indeed the 391 is a lovely boat, she’s looked after us very well. We did list her for sale late last year then took her off again as we decided to at least sail her back to the U.K. However that journey is getting close to completion and we are likely to be listing her again very soon. Drop us a line if you are interested 😊⛵️followintrepidbear@gmail.com
What's a stick fuel rack Iain, or did I mishear? A sticky fuel pump? Why was it sticky - do you know? Ta
Hi 😊 Well it’s bit beyond my full understanding but apparently inside the diesel injection pump is something called a fuel rack. It controls the speed of the engine but is not directly connected to the throttle. The throttle tells the fuel injection pump what you want but the fuel rack in conjunction with the governor actually controls how much fuel gets to the engine. Apparently it’s not uncommon for that fuel rack to just get gummed up with dirt and age over the years. According to the guy who took the injection pump off it can also result in diesel runaway where the engine revs itself to death unless you shut the fuel off 😱 So he thought we were lucky it was only poor throttle response and cutting out that we suffered! Anyway the mechanic sent it away to a specialist who stripped it and cleaned it all out and it’s fine now. I’m fairly mechanically minded but the inner workings of the fuel injection pump (which is not the same as the fuel supply pump) are a bit of a mystery to me so I was in the hands of others but luckily they did a good job 👍🏻😊
I heard very little whinging. A bit of realism, and the fuel rack and consequently engine issue must have been a worry. Presumably it wasn’t evident and so no option to ‘do anything’ while at anchor, as no idea what might need some ‘anything’ doing to it? Glad you got in okay. And was that a preventer going over the port rail to the midships cleat?
@@iainhunneybell hi….i tried all I knew at anchor to resolve the engine issue, raised the idle a little and made sure the fuel filters were clear but it took a mechanic and diesel specialist to take the injection pump away to discover that it was gummed up inside which was causing fuel rack issues. It was all sorted and good as gold once we left Almerimar bound for Gib. Yes that’s a preventer line on the port side however we’d hardened up onto the wind a bit but hadn’t de-rigged it so it’s just slack in that clip. It wouldn’t be any good pressing on the rails like that under tension. Once we go more downwind then we can tighten it up.. 👍🏻😊⛵️
The 'gummy fuel pump' was bad diesel, or just age @@FollowIntrepidBear? Just a useful lesson on what to watch for and try and prevent 🙂 And yes, quite so re the preventer 😁
@ as far as I know mainly age. According to the Spanish diesel specialist it’s not uncommon on Yanmars of that age. However I have my suspicions about the brown goo at the bottom of the tank because it didn’t look like your usual diesel bug. There is a relatively recent phenomenon call “sticky diesel”, give it a google, which could gum up an injector pump. I’m not saying we had sticky diesel necessarily but the brown goo in the tank was a mystery and didn’t look like what I understand diesel bug to look like…who knows! 🤷🏻♂️😬😂
Your sails look good and clean given the long season. Anyone who liveaboard cruises understands what you are saying. Your faux par, as you identify clearly, is rushing because you seek to go to too far in the time, and this brings the wrong sort of stress.
Thank you…I’m not sure the sails bear close scrutiny and have never fully recovered from the mud rain in Gibraltar a couple of years ago but they’re not doing too badly.
And yes, for various reasons, we’ve ended up doing too many miles each season. Schengen doesn’t help but we’ve also made tactical errors along the way. Would love a WHOLE season just floating round the Ionian but we’re headed home now where the weather might be worse but we’ll never have that visa time deadline to worry about. There’s just the small matter of 1100 miles home! (Although in real time we’re currently in Porto so only about 5 days sailing from home 😊🇬🇧) There are changes coming but we’ll chat more about that as we get into season 4 and the voyage home 😊
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