Well done! The straight forward way you overcame the steering failure was a valuable lesson. Your planning and the team work of official, and volunteers was great. Well done and another subscriber joins you on your journey. Lee
I done that trip from Whangarei to Suva single handed on a very basic 27ft sloop in April 1999, took 10 days. Having arrived off the reef entrance after dusk I had to hove to all night waiting for daybreak before passing through the entrance to Suva harbour. In this video they are quoting the wind speeds at up to 30 knots. To my eye they were much less than that, say moderate to fresh. They had so many gizmos on that cat it would rival a luxury cruise liner. I did have a wind vane to steer which are much more reliable than those electro mechanical devices which in my experience are going to fail, its just a matter of when and where.
Glad to see I’m not the only one that lost my steering chain in the middle of the night on my Leopard. I carry a drimble small grinder and I ground the link connectors and shortened it enough to lengthen the cables at the rudder stocks and got back sailing
Don't want to be a wiseguy but an item so constantly in use like to chain should be checked and/or have a replacement schedule after x days at sea. Cover off and wind rudder through full port and full starboard. That should expose full length to scrutiny
you guys have a lot of knowledge in sailing and life. Just need create a story behind your videos (not just segments of what you do). not EZ at all but it will be more interesting best to you two!!
I enjoyed watching this meticulously prepared voyage and it’s successful outcome despite the steering challenges at the end.
Well done! The straight forward way you overcame the steering failure was a valuable lesson. Your planning and the team work of official, and volunteers was great. Well done and another subscriber joins you on your journey.
Lee
Awesome thanks are you guys still sailing ⛵.
I done that trip from Whangarei to Suva single handed on a very basic 27ft sloop in April 1999, took 10 days. Having arrived off the reef entrance after dusk I had to hove to all night waiting for daybreak before passing through the entrance to Suva harbour. In this video they are quoting the wind speeds at up to 30 knots. To my eye they were much less than that, say moderate to fresh.
They had so many gizmos on that cat it would rival a luxury cruise liner. I did have a wind vane to steer which are much more reliable than those electro mechanical devices which in my experience are going to fail, its just a matter of when and where.
Glad to see I’m not the only one that lost my steering chain in the middle of the night on my Leopard. I carry a drimble small grinder and I ground the link connectors and shortened it enough to lengthen the cables at the rudder stocks and got back sailing
That was a great (very interesting) video. I'm not keen on rough conditions at night, much rather see what's coming. Glad you arrived ok.
Hey thanks for posting this. Just wondering did you need to do a cat 1 inspection, or was it not necessary as it was a foreign vessel?
Don't want to be a wiseguy but an item so constantly in use like to chain should be checked and/or have a replacement schedule after x days at sea. Cover off and wind rudder through full port and full starboard. That should expose full length to scrutiny
Interesting trip! Add links and partsfor steering chainsto check list. Murphy,s law never rests!
I enjoyed the video very much. But pls do something about the auto focus.....(i am 68!)
Great vid. Thanks for sharing
All those checks and still something went wrong! Were you in auto pilot when it happened?
you guys have a lot of knowledge in sailing and life. Just need create a story behind your videos (not just segments of what you do). not EZ at all but it will be more interesting
best to you two!!
That was a very interesting video thank you :)
Great video
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seems that people sailing need to be ready to fix any thing
mooi so good vid guys
Horrible background music.