On hold but not by the finger tips!

Mon. July 4/11. Up early RB came by and off to the alternator shop. Alternator confirmed dead. Shop guy said he could bring it back to life hopefully by the end of the day. Went and picked up some ice did some boat chores and  waited and waited to the end of the day.,,,,,,, Alternator fixed hooray good to go. Our friend Ttim came up from baddeck checked out the wiring and regulator confirmed it was dead so hooked up the old one went out for dinner and at 2130 cast off the lines. Left the wall motoring out of the harbour in the dark. turned East and raised the sails. A very nice sail with the wind from the south so we were making very good time.
Wed. July 6/11. early morning. Motoring no wind!! Lots of this,this trip. Transmission quits transmitting!! dive below and open it up. Can not see anything wrong. Adjust it anyway, no cure. So here we are East of St. Pierre Miqulon in the fog and very little wind with a bad forcast for the East shore of Newfoundland! Whooppee. At this point I decided to cancel the trip and get back to Sydney or further. We turned around and after 5 days of no wind, too much wind from the wrong direction and some wind from the right direction we managed to reach Gaspe. Kalinka1 is on a dock. The crew have all returned to their homes. The transmission is out. I'm back at home trying to find someone to fix it in a short time so that I and Sally can return in august and move the boat to a Winter storage yard somewhere down East so that I can get some of the other stuff done and continue next year! I'll post updates as they occurr. thanks for reading.

Still here not by choice!!

Well!!! Quick update. We're still here in Sydney after going to bed early last night after Sally and drivers left for home. Up at 0500 kettle on tea and got underway. Motoring out of the harbour when heard the alternator Kick in under a very heavy load. The tachometer actually saw a drop of 1000 rpm. Voltage went a way up to 16 volts and could smell the batteries. Not a good sign!! Immediately decided to head back to the wall at dobson. Just as an aside when we left we didn't have much reverse gear even after or inspite of the adjustments the other day. Returned to the wall motored in slowly and had the crew doing the leap of death onto the dock and we were secure. I emptied out the Sail locker then took apart the engine box and started trying to figure out the problem.here it is 2115 our/not your time and I still don't know what's wrong! Changed out the alternator works fine on one position and then goes nut on the other. I'm confused for once in my life.(no sly comments from the readers allowed) Refridge guy was at the bar came down had a quick look confirmed that the compreesor was cooked and then left. My friend RB offered to drive us around in the morning to get the alternator checked out and whatever else we need. Will probably buy a cooler fill it with ice and get to St. John's NF' where my buddy Wayne now lives and the good thing he is a refridge expert. Other than that. We're all doing well and melding. Hmm Melding I think is a clingon thing. Crew doing Pork chops for dinner and I'm doing Captain stuff. Staying out of the way!! no pictures today but who knows about tomorrow. by for now.

Quiet time at last!!

hello all!! Crew off doing crew stuff as good crew should be doing leaving me with not much to do. So a short update. The New crew of Carl,Peter with Sally and Eleanor and Glen arrived yesterday after a 24 hour drive. Jez and Jill drove up from Antigonish and the party started!! Good thing that what happens in Sydney stays in Sydney. We all went out to the Goverment for dinner to bad the Government didn't pay! I had the last Lobster caught. Everyone else had a variety of seafood,Mamals and fowl. I won. Spent the night in a Days Inn where the bed didn't move. Still slept well the rest of the crew stayed on board good thing they were all tired or the party could have gon on all night hymm maybe it did as they didn't look too fresh this morning. some are off doing groceries and laundry while others are off doing boat supplies We'll leave tomorrow with the tide and in 3 weeks or less we'll arrive in Ireland or someplace else depending on my navigational skills. though with three other sailors on board we should be able to find somewhere. So until the next time.