Category Archives: broken things

The Benefits of a Broken Autopilot

By Kathy Woodruff | Published May 21, 2014

For several years I’ve been trying to get other family members to come post on the blog, I finally succeeded!  Give Kathy a warm welcome as a new blog author.   – B.J. Some might look at a broken autopilot as thousands of  miles of grueling hand steering and misery… but Read On..

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Day Three – So Much for Uneventful

By B.J. | Published May 17, 2014

Well the last twenty-four hours has proven an interesting course of events. The Bad News First In brief, last night around midnight just after I took over watch we lost the autopilot, it failed for what we think is good. It is tough to tell, we have an e-mail into Read On..

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Anonymous Minor Delay

By B.J. | Published April 8, 2014

Names have been changed in this article to protect the innocent…if any of them can be found. Recently a vessel had to had her mast removed in a foreign location to service a main sail furling system.  On returning the mast to the boat, it was decided that the masthead Read On..

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Well THAT Was Interesting

By B.J. | Published March 30, 2014

We’ve taken the mast off of Evenstar before.  A couple of times in fact.  When storing on land in the winter her mast is so tall that the windage is dangerous, so to avoid shaking, rattling and damage to the boat we pulled the mast when we did it. It Read On..

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The Main Problem

By B.J. | Published March 27, 2014

This has been an extremely difficult post to write and I’ve been putting it off even though we’ve been aware of this problem for some time.  It has been hard not because the awfulness or severity of the problem (but it is severe, awful and expensive), but rather how the Read On..

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Mr. Fixit’s Update

By B.J. | Published February 22, 2014

Progress is being made on our repairs, but not fast enough. We’d planned to be in Costa Rica some time ago.  Will was scheduled to spend a couple of weeks interning at Robert H. Perry Yacht Design (and see Bob’s blog in the blog roll) so we booked a flight Read On..

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The Week of Broken Things

By B.J. | Published February 13, 2014

This is the week we discovered a few more major things were broken and needed to be dealt with. And we also paid the price for not addressing some of these things the second we noticed them, and for not being aggressive enough checking things out before we left. If Read On..

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Generator Blues, the Refrain

By B.J. | Published February 3, 2014

Well my Gen’rator ain’t working, and I ain’t got me no power No, no my Gen’rator ain’t working, and I ain’t got me no power We done fixed the Stator and its makin’ juice But the heat exchanger’s broken, ready to cut it loose ‘Cause it’s leaking sea water and Read On..

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Generator Blues

By B.J. | Published January 24, 2014

Long time readers may remember our adventures with our generator shortly after we set out cruising in the fall of 2012.  Well, this is a lot worse.  Back then I was considering setting the story into epic verse just to keep an overly technical post interesting.  I’m thinking maybe this Read On..

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Farewell to Trinidad

By B.J. | Published December 10, 2013

As much as we loved Trinidad, the time to leave came much more quickly than we wanted it to. To a cruiser schedules are an anathema.  This is something that is hard to convey to the non-cruiser, after all they rarely commit themselves to the land-bound equivalent of a passage Read On..

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