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Boat maintenance – Part 6 - HR54 Cloudy Bay – Apr-Jun'21. S21 Ep6
Series of videos which covers maintenance jobs during a 7 week visit to Cloudy Bay in Spring’21
This Part 6 is mostly about servicing the rudder and reinstallation.
- Addressing severe corrosion on the bearing housing
- Modific...
Series of videos which covers maintenance jobs during a 7 week visit to Cloudy Bay in Spring’21
This Part 4 has a rather strong plumbing theme.
- Replacing seals on the hydraulic outhaul cylinder
- Replacing impeller on the deck wash pump, and re-plumbing
- Replacing pressure safety valve on the d...
Series of videos which covers maintenance jobs during a 7 week visit to Cloudy Bay in Spring’21
This Part 3 mainly covers aspects of mast maintenance:
- Re-installation of Selden gooseneck and vang mast fittings
- Installing Selden mast spinnaker pole traveler
- Rebuilding all 6 Selden spreader bar...
Series of videos which covers maintenance jobs during a 7 week visit to Cloudy Bay in Spring’21
This Part 2 covers:
- Re-installation of the Aquadrive System: thrust bearing, CV joint and PSS shaft seal
- Rebuilding all the Selden Furlex hydraulic furling motors (genoa, cutter & mast)
- Rebuil...
Boat maintenance – Part 1 - HR54 Cloudy Bay – Apr-Jun'21. S20 Ep1
Series of videos which covers maintenance jobs during a 7 week visit to Cloudy Bay in Spring’21
This Part 1 covers:
- Removal and servicing the Aquadrive system
- Changing a heat exchanger on the Whisperpower generator
- Chang...
Sailing through US Virgin Islands. Enjoying the delights of St. John beaches, the charm of Charlotte Amalie and an interesting road tour of St. Thomas.
From Soper’s Hole, Tortola, British Virgin Islands, we motor the short distance across to the island of St. John, US Virgin Islands, where we check...
Perfect Caribbean sailing to the stunningly beautiful Anegada island, in the north of the British Virgin Islands. Scooter tour around the island and wonderful drone footage of the unspoiled natural environment.
Following our exploration of Anguilla, we sail 80nm west to the British Virgin Islands a...
Sailing to the joint Dutch-French island of St. Maarten (St. Martin) where we stayed for 1 month, doing maintenance, attending a multihull regatta, exploring and trying kite-foiling.
After our short stay in St. Barts, s/v Cloudy Bay (Hallberg-Rassy 54) set sail to St. Maarten. First anchoring in Sim...
Sailing to St. Barts, the St. Tropez of the Caribbean. Exploring the beaches, nightlife and the exotic town.
With an unfavorable forecast, s/v Cloudy Bay (Hallberg-Rassy 54) departed St. Eustatius earlier than anticipated and motored the short distance NNE to the French island of St. Barts. We ancho...
Series of videos which covers removing the rig to replace the standing rigging and service all the rig systems, plus some other winter maintenance aspects.
This Part 3 covers removal of vang and goose-neck mast fittings; servicing winches; dismantling the spreaders; changing the cutlass bearing in ...
Lots of challenges on this 2nd leg of our passage: setting a 24hr mileage record; caught-out in the gulf stream; an accidental gybe; lightning storm and a thunderous leg to the infamous Hatteras shoals.
Following on from part 1: after a brief stop in West Palm, Florida, we continue our passage up t...
Part 1 of our 1,200 miles passage from Grand Cayman to the Chesapeake, on our Hallberg-Rassy 54. A long spinnaker run to Cuba, then lively sailing in the gulf-stream to Florida.
After 2 months of Covid-19 lockdown in Grand Cayman, with the hurricane season approaching, we needed to move. Due to all...
2 days of lively off-wind sailing from Jamaica to Grand Cayman.
With Covid-19 starting to cause concern, we departed Jamaica and headed for the medical security of Grand Cayman, which we hoped to explore before any restrictions were applied. We left Montego Bay on a fast beam reach, aiming to arri...
Always wanted to visit "Mo-Bay" area and the famous Montego Bay Yacht Club.
From Ocho Rios we motor-sailed to Montego Bay, our last stop in Jamaica. Anchored off the quiet Montego Bay Yacht Club, where we sheltered from a strong NE weather front for 3 days before exploring the local area...
From our anchorage in Oracabessa we sailed the short distance west to Ocho Rios, a major tourist center in Jamaica. Ocho Rios is the place where Glen’s parents had their happiest holiday, back in 1967. By record of his Mum’s diary, we visited their hotel and all the places they enjoyed during their ...
Exploring east end of Jamaica and Kingston, then sailing west to Oracabessa.
After a 3-day (450nm) sail from Bahamas, we arrived into Port Antonio on the lush green coast of NE Jamaica. From our berth at the Errol Flynn Marina, we visited the town of Port Antonio and explored the eastern end of Jam...
On passage from Bahamas to Jamaica, flying the Parasailor and passing the notorious windward passage at the eastern end of Cuba.
After several days in George Town, Bahamas, we found a narrow weather wind to start our 700nm passage to the Cayman Islands, via the Windward Passage to the east of Cuba....
George Town (aka Chicken Town) was our last stop in the Bahamas.
From our exquisite afternoon anchored behind Boysie Cay, we motored 10nm SE to Emerald Bay Marina to refuel. We were tempted to have a day pass in the adjacent Sandals Resort but decided to stick to our plan for once.
So we continue...
We discover the unique Boysie Cay then have a sunset spa on the aft deck.
From Rudder Cay, our intention was to go directly to George Town, 25nm to the SE. But after just 5nm curiosity got the better of us and we diverted for a lunch stop behind Boysie Cay.
Boysie Cay had several unique features: ...
Exploring Rudder Cay and abandoned research center on Lee Stocking.
From Musha Cay we had a 3nm bouncy ride in deep water, before heading back on the bank and anchoring behind Rudder Cay, next to a beautiful beach and a very interesting cave. After snorkeling over David Copperfield’s sunken grand p...
Rum punches at Black Point and visit Musha Cay, David Copperfield's Island.
From the regatta at Little Farmers we had a fun race with friends while sailing north to Black Point community. Sheltering there from strong easterly wind, we did laundry, had some nice walks and a great evening out at...
Can Pigs fly? No, but they swim in the sea at Big Majors Cay Exumas! Tour of Thunderball Grotto, ran aground and stuck for 4 hours, and attend Little Farmers “5F” Regatta.
From our beautiful anchorage behind Pipe Cay we went back to Staniel Cay to see the swimming pigs on Big Majors and have a dram...
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