Sailing things right

Dafuck and how to deal with it.
:(

Departure is closer and closer

Stormy night results:
- Minus two fenders
- Minus leech line on port-side
- Minus three mooring lines

Two guys from the marina came to me and told me that some motorboat owner saw my troubles out from his window at home and called the marina to relocate my boat to his place while his boat was serviced ashore.

Now it's much better. The only risk left is losing bimini to the 40±5kn gusts.

And it really revives the faith in humanity. Some quite rich guy saw another random guy in trouble and offered very valuable help.
Thank you, unknown guy. Thank you very much.

Facing upcoming storm, had to get to the marina. Occasionally, this one "wannabe Olbia", was the closest one with the price of €58/night for the 11.9m boat at the lowest season.
Tho, ⅔ births are occupied.
...
Walked around, humiliated by local restaurants prices — ~€20 for risotto and up, — and then luckily found a pub with "men's food, half-a-kilo".
Now I'm a really happy man.

Anchorage today at 360°

Ready for the very first passage as a captain!

Preparing the dog for the journey. She's definitely not happy about kid-size life-west. Hoping that this unhappiness will hold her still while on the move.

Also did my first soup onboard.
Did you ever try a soup with the ketchup and a mustard? :)

Please, welcome the new European Union citizen!

I asked may I get the same passport for the same €36, but was told that they would have to sterilise me and do all the necessary vaccinations.

Here is the 360° photo of the Teuldada marina surrounding.
Beautiful place.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/jewAnNdgMBxZSKEa6

Take a closer look at the second photo: gale 6 at least, closer to 7. Three meters waves with a 5 second period. I was really happy to not be there at the moment.

Disclaimer: brutal aggression, bloodbath, tearing apart!

#bobaka

Was trying to fix the speed sensor. Later found that it's unfortunately not working at all. I don't even want to know how much this thing costs. :(

Arrived at the anchorage at Majorca.
Tailing Mistral wasn't the best idea. Short swell over 2 meters, sometimes 4+, autopilot wasn't working, falling into error with the every other wave, so 26 hours of manual steering.
Moreover, the wind was very unstable and since my friend got severe sea sickness, we didn't use sails much. So half-tank of diesel is burned away.

Anyway, first 130 miles done.

#bobaka

Shitty native Bavaria's inverter exhausted its magic smoke, therefore we have no 220v onboard anymore.

Fun fact: inverter says it's 800W, the teapot says it's 650W. Magic smoke proves that someone there is a damn liar.

You can't be 100% prepared for the trip. There's always something not ready, even broken. But there's a moment, when one should say "It's time to go".

If the forecast is accurate enough, in two days we should start and will reach Sardegna in record time just few hours ahead of upcoming storm.

Right now we have 40 knots of wind in the marina, so the boat is already a little bit shaking and banking. Let's consider that as a light training.

Got a new fancy scarf.

40 meters of a scarf, that will be a spinnaker halyard, a dinghy crane rope, a mast climbing halyard and a dog toy sometime in the end.

I've been multiple times told that I'm an idiot planning to install a standard windshield from a car to the sprayhood.
Just found that I'm not the only idiot with that idea!

About twenty miles to go.
Slowed down a bit too arrive after the sunrise.
The second photo is from the past sunset.

Once I've been told that the Mediterranean isn't the best region for sailing — either too much wind or too little. Seems like true. Over 150 miles of motoring this time. Deadly boring and painfully expensive.

Yesterday's walk around

Another word of gratitude:
At first I was thinking about sitting anchored in-between two rocks for three days waiting for the storm passing by. But my friend wasn't excited with this idea at all and offered to pay for the marina, so he could do his job as a normal white cisgender colonist male being used to work — on stable land, in a cafe, sitting still.

From my current mooring in the marina to the desired anchorage is just about a mile straight. But I'm really scared to go there and see what we'd be facing there today if we stay.

So, thank you, friend. You've probably saved my boat.

This is not good. And the very same condition on the other side.
If it pulls so hard in one of the most protected harbours, I don't wanna think about what's going on outside, in open sea.

There's a chance I got a leak somewhere in a deck-to-hull seam. It was a rainy night and I got this in the bilge.

Departed.

Living on solar power.
Today is mostly cloudy day, but nevertheless got some power.
Instruments are powered on.
Can't test it properly with autopilot tho.

The spike on a graph is a teapot. Hence the output wattage graph isn't a real output, but how much the boat consumes. Spike showing the maximum output of the panel today when consumption exceeds power generation.

Nature decided to test how I fixed everything that shall be stationary by blowing 30-40kn of wind. Found two things that were tied badly. Now fixed.

First one guessing wtf is that will gain the right for one free unapproved overboard.

Finally, new bilge pumps arrived.
Ordered two, to install one to the engine compartment too.
I must say, that these new pumps are absolutely insane in amount of water pushed out. About 5 liters of water pumped out from a bucket in about a second.

Dafuck and how to deal with it.
:(

About twenty miles to go.
Slowed down a bit too arrive after the sunrise.
The second photo is from the past sunset.

Once I've been told that the Mediterranean isn't the best region for sailing — either too much wind or too little. Seems like true. Over 150 miles of motoring this time. Deadly boring and painfully expensive.

Take a closer look at the second photo: gale 6 at least, closer to 7. Three meters waves with a 5 second period. I was really happy to not be there at the moment.

Departure is closer and closer

Another word of gratitude:
At first I was thinking about sitting anchored in-between two rocks for three days waiting for the storm passing by. But my friend wasn't excited with this idea at all and offered to pay for the marina, so he could do his job as a normal white cisgender colonist male being used to work — on stable land, in a cafe, sitting still.

From my current mooring in the marina to the desired anchorage is just about a mile straight. But I'm really scared to go there and see what we'd be facing there today if we stay.

So, thank you, friend. You've probably saved my boat.

Facing upcoming storm, had to get to the marina. Occasionally, this one "wannabe Olbia", was the closest one with the price of €58/night for the 11.9m boat at the lowest season.
Tho, ⅔ births are occupied.
...
Walked around, humiliated by local restaurants prices — ~€20 for risotto and up, — and then luckily found a pub with "men's food, half-a-kilo".
Now I'm a really happy man.

There's a chance I got a leak somewhere in a deck-to-hull seam. It was a rainy night and I got this in the bilge.

Arrived at the anchorage at Majorca.
Tailing Mistral wasn't the best idea. Short swell over 2 meters, sometimes 4+, autopilot wasn't working, falling into error with the every other wave, so 26 hours of manual steering.
Moreover, the wind was very unstable and since my friend got severe sea sickness, we didn't use sails much. So half-tank of diesel is burned away.

Anyway, first 130 miles done.

#bobaka

Ready for the very first passage as a captain!

Living on solar power.
Today is mostly cloudy day, but nevertheless got some power.
Instruments are powered on.
Can't test it properly with autopilot tho.

The spike on a graph is a teapot. Hence the output wattage graph isn't a real output, but how much the boat consumes. Spike showing the maximum output of the panel today when consumption exceeds power generation.

You can't be 100% prepared for the trip. There's always something not ready, even broken. But there's a moment, when one should say "It's time to go".

If the forecast is accurate enough, in two days we should start and will reach Sardegna in record time just few hours ahead of upcoming storm.

Right now we have 40 knots of wind in the marina, so the boat is already a little bit shaking and banking. Let's consider that as a light training.

Also did my first soup onboard.
Did you ever try a soup with the ketchup and a mustard? :)

First one guessing wtf is that will gain the right for one free unapproved overboard.

I've been multiple times told that I'm an idiot planning to install a standard windshield from a car to the sprayhood.
Just found that I'm not the only idiot with that idea!

Here is the 360° photo of the Teuldada marina surrounding.
Beautiful place.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/jewAnNdgMBxZSKEa6

Yesterday's walk around

Disclaimer: brutal aggression, bloodbath, tearing apart!

#bobaka

Stormy night results:
- Minus two fenders
- Minus leech line on port-side
- Minus three mooring lines

Two guys from the marina came to me and told me that some motorboat owner saw my troubles out from his window at home and called the marina to relocate my boat to his place while his boat was serviced ashore.

Now it's much better. The only risk left is losing bimini to the 40±5kn gusts.

And it really revives the faith in humanity. Some quite rich guy saw another random guy in trouble and offered very valuable help.
Thank you, unknown guy. Thank you very much.

This is not good. And the very same condition on the other side.
If it pulls so hard in one of the most protected harbours, I don't wanna think about what's going on outside, in open sea.

Was trying to fix the speed sensor. Later found that it's unfortunately not working at all. I don't even want to know how much this thing costs. :(

Anchorage today at 360°

Departed.

Shitty native Bavaria's inverter exhausted its magic smoke, therefore we have no 220v onboard anymore.

Fun fact: inverter says it's 800W, the teapot says it's 650W. Magic smoke proves that someone there is a damn liar.

Preparing the dog for the journey. She's definitely not happy about kid-size life-west. Hoping that this unhappiness will hold her still while on the move.

Nature decided to test how I fixed everything that shall be stationary by blowing 30-40kn of wind. Found two things that were tied badly. Now fixed.

Got a new fancy scarf.

40 meters of a scarf, that will be a spinnaker halyard, a dinghy crane rope, a mast climbing halyard and a dog toy sometime in the end.

Please, welcome the new European Union citizen!

I asked may I get the same passport for the same €36, but was told that they would have to sterilise me and do all the necessary vaccinations.

Finally, new bilge pumps arrived.
Ordered two, to install one to the engine compartment too.
I must say, that these new pumps are absolutely insane in amount of water pushed out. About 5 liters of water pumped out from a bucket in about a second.

Dafuck and how to deal with it.
:(

Here is the 360° photo of the Teuldada marina surrounding.
Beautiful place.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/jewAnNdgMBxZSKEa6

About twenty miles to go.
Slowed down a bit too arrive after the sunrise.
The second photo is from the past sunset.

Once I've been told that the Mediterranean isn't the best region for sailing — either too much wind or too little. Seems like true. Over 150 miles of motoring this time. Deadly boring and painfully expensive.

Take a closer look at the second photo: gale 6 at least, closer to 7. Three meters waves with a 5 second period. I was really happy to not be there at the moment.

Yesterday's walk around

Departure is closer and closer

Disclaimer: brutal aggression, bloodbath, tearing apart!

#bobaka

Another word of gratitude:
At first I was thinking about sitting anchored in-between two rocks for three days waiting for the storm passing by. But my friend wasn't excited with this idea at all and offered to pay for the marina, so he could do his job as a normal white cisgender colonist male being used to work — on stable land, in a cafe, sitting still.

From my current mooring in the marina to the desired anchorage is just about a mile straight. But I'm really scared to go there and see what we'd be facing there today if we stay.

So, thank you, friend. You've probably saved my boat.

Stormy night results:
- Minus two fenders
- Minus leech line on port-side
- Minus three mooring lines

Two guys from the marina came to me and told me that some motorboat owner saw my troubles out from his window at home and called the marina to relocate my boat to his place while his boat was serviced ashore.

Now it's much better. The only risk left is losing bimini to the 40±5kn gusts.

And it really revives the faith in humanity. Some quite rich guy saw another random guy in trouble and offered very valuable help.
Thank you, unknown guy. Thank you very much.

This is not good. And the very same condition on the other side.
If it pulls so hard in one of the most protected harbours, I don't wanna think about what's going on outside, in open sea.

Facing upcoming storm, had to get to the marina. Occasionally, this one "wannabe Olbia", was the closest one with the price of €58/night for the 11.9m boat at the lowest season.
Tho, ⅔ births are occupied.
...
Walked around, humiliated by local restaurants prices — ~€20 for risotto and up, — and then luckily found a pub with "men's food, half-a-kilo".
Now I'm a really happy man.

Was trying to fix the speed sensor. Later found that it's unfortunately not working at all. I don't even want to know how much this thing costs. :(

There's a chance I got a leak somewhere in a deck-to-hull seam. It was a rainy night and I got this in the bilge.

Anchorage today at 360°

Arrived at the anchorage at Majorca.
Tailing Mistral wasn't the best idea. Short swell over 2 meters, sometimes 4+, autopilot wasn't working, falling into error with the every other wave, so 26 hours of manual steering.
Moreover, the wind was very unstable and since my friend got severe sea sickness, we didn't use sails much. So half-tank of diesel is burned away.

Anyway, first 130 miles done.

#bobaka

Departed.

Ready for the very first passage as a captain!

Shitty native Bavaria's inverter exhausted its magic smoke, therefore we have no 220v onboard anymore.

Fun fact: inverter says it's 800W, the teapot says it's 650W. Magic smoke proves that someone there is a damn liar.

Living on solar power.
Today is mostly cloudy day, but nevertheless got some power.
Instruments are powered on.
Can't test it properly with autopilot tho.

The spike on a graph is a teapot. Hence the output wattage graph isn't a real output, but how much the boat consumes. Spike showing the maximum output of the panel today when consumption exceeds power generation.

Preparing the dog for the journey. She's definitely not happy about kid-size life-west. Hoping that this unhappiness will hold her still while on the move.

You can't be 100% prepared for the trip. There's always something not ready, even broken. But there's a moment, when one should say "It's time to go".

If the forecast is accurate enough, in two days we should start and will reach Sardegna in record time just few hours ahead of upcoming storm.

Right now we have 40 knots of wind in the marina, so the boat is already a little bit shaking and banking. Let's consider that as a light training.

Nature decided to test how I fixed everything that shall be stationary by blowing 30-40kn of wind. Found two things that were tied badly. Now fixed.

Also did my first soup onboard.
Did you ever try a soup with the ketchup and a mustard? :)

Got a new fancy scarf.

40 meters of a scarf, that will be a spinnaker halyard, a dinghy crane rope, a mast climbing halyard and a dog toy sometime in the end.

First one guessing wtf is that will gain the right for one free unapproved overboard.

Please, welcome the new European Union citizen!

I asked may I get the same passport for the same €36, but was told that they would have to sterilise me and do all the necessary vaccinations.

I've been multiple times told that I'm an idiot planning to install a standard windshield from a car to the sprayhood.
Just found that I'm not the only idiot with that idea!

Finally, new bilge pumps arrived.
Ordered two, to install one to the engine compartment too.
I must say, that these new pumps are absolutely insane in amount of water pushed out. About 5 liters of water pumped out from a bucket in about a second.