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Microbe wrecks holiday.
Any boat on the water using a diesel motor can be stopped dead if microbes turn your fuel into a black stringy sticky mess that gums up filters and feeder tubes. It happened to me and I fixed it by … Continue reading
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Tagged biocide, Diesel bug, diesel contamination, diesel tank, Hum bug, inspection hatch, microbes in diesel, water in fuel
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While sailing from Gibralter to the Canary Islands we were becalmed off the coast of Morocco. Sometimes, we just cut the motor and lay adrift until wind came our way, voted by the family who preferred this to the noise … Continue reading
Once a year The Admiral and I get to work on our boat out of the water. This is the annual dry docking when heaps of money is spent and we engage in some good honest hard work. It’s not … Continue reading
Leaking toilet
The marine toilet can be a leaky affair after a while. The problem is confined to manual toilets where the plunger that is used to pump ‘stuff’ into a holding tank for disposal later. Salt water will bubble out just … Continue reading
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Tagged Jabsco, leaking toilet gland, manual toilet leaks, marine toilet, oil seal, seal imports, Wild Bird
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Simple but tasty no knead bread.
This was written before we took up caretaking jobs on the coast. Today we make bread in the breadmaker, but sometimes revert to this recipe using dough that has to be panned in an oven. Warning: Before you read on, … Continue reading
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Tagged batter bread, colin lowe, easy bread, moist bread, quick bread, stir bread, Wild Bird
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Cetacean encounters with Wild Bird
I wrote this ditty but it was never published. Might as well put on cyberspace and see what happens. No use keeping it on a thumb drive, so here it is. I have read or heard somewhere that … Continue reading
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Tagged Cetaceans, colin lowe, dolphins, Orca, whale pod, whales, Wild Bird
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Well, blow me down mate!
It is indeed a small world. A Suzuki outboard in the cockpit was half way reassembled after a good stripping and clean up, when an associate was aboard looking at our boat. He was a Bermudian, where the Admiral had … Continue reading
Free fish!
Today’s brag is about the half dozen fish, some of which are shown here. These are not record beating, but they sure were tasty… and being small (but of legal size), they were not loaded with roe. I am beating … Continue reading
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Tagged bait, colin lowe, Fishing, free bait, piper, pipis, pre dawn start, snapper, Wild Bird
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Occasionally I get melancholic about old boats, especially the one I built in the early seventies when I was in my twenties. Wild Honey launched the Admiral and myself into a fun ten years of cruising. It was as … Continue reading
Eccentric sailor rinses anchor chain!
I sometimes see stainless steel link chain these days, especially on visiting overseas boats. We can purchase the stuff in NZ, but probably at a price beyond me. Years ago, before we set off on a Pacific jaunt with the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anchor chain, Avon Industries, colin lowe, Galvanized anchor, galvanized chain, Wild Bird
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