Month: August 2012

Alternator Chronicles – A Happy Ending

August 29, 2012

So you recall a few weeks ago we “blew up our alternator” while trying to do diagnostics on a suspected charging problem.  That was a big bummer, requiring ordering a new alternator and regulator, shipping from the West Coast of the United States, and import duties into Spain.  Ouch, ouch, and ouch again. Well, this

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Video – Landfall in the Azores

August 20, 2012

Here’s our third video.  Days 10-14 up to landfall in the Azores. Landfall in the Azores    

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Alternator Chronicles

August 14, 2012

When things go wrong on a boat they can go very wrong. It pains me a little that despite owning a sailboat and being a lover of the sailing aspect of owning a sailboat, since taking ownership of Shearwater, most of our effort, time, frustration, and a great deal of our funds have gone to

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Video – Crossing the Atlantic – The Windy Days

August 12, 2012

This is the second video, days 6-10, where we had a lot of strong breeze. Crossing the Atlantic – The Windy Days  

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Video – Crossing the Atlantic – First 5 Days

August 11, 2012

We shot about 8 hours of video during the crossing.  Trying to distill that down to a few watchable bits takes some time, but it is quite fun.  Since we are quite new to video editing we are taking a two-pronged approach.  First, we are making 3 or 4 short videos for the ADD types.

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Salty dogs

August 9, 2012

This past weekend we brought our dogs with us, as we needed to take care of some small maintenance tasks on Shearwater.  Jordan and Haley travel really well – they love hearing that there is going to be a car ride, and when we hook them up and take them outside, they seem to check

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Snapshots from Porto

August 7, 2012

Shearwater is currently at the Douro Marina in Portugal, where we have been quite happy with the helpfulness of the marina staff and the pleasant town of Vila Nova de Gaia, which is right across the River Douro from Porto.  We spent this past weekend cleaning up a bit, as well as collecting some items from

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