Another spooking the wife at sea story: Delivering a C&C 39 back from Hawaii in 1979, my wife's first Pacific crossing, we experienced:
Refrigeration failure and loss of food (ended up rationing food for 2 weeks) Galley fire (2 dry chemical ext. to put it out) A4 engine failure (middle of taking a short cut through the NE Pac. High i.e. very light wind) Water shortage (had 24 days of water took 29 to land in Seattle) We did have some magical days and nights of gentle sailing while working our way out of the NE Pacific high. All on board survived the trial and tribulations but comfort was sacrificed My best sales job to date was convincing her to make another trip (Honolulu to San Francisco) in 1981. How to regain her confidence in an older C&C for anything more than a light air day trip? Hell'if I know. Failed that test myself. I'm wired for adventure sailing, local or long distance. She's wired for comfort and social sailing/boating. Best ideas I have come up with in over 30 years of working on the problem is to fly her to the destination while me and my salty friends sail the boat and experience all the good and less good of voyaging under sail. Martin Calypso 1971 C&C 43, hull #1 Seattle ________________________________ From: cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com [mailto:cnc-list-boun...@cnc-list.com] On Behalf Of Della Barba, Joe Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 5:52 AM To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Subject: Re: Stus-List Edson chain and wire pedestal failure The stops on my boat work well and prevent exactly the kind of thing that happened to you. As for your wife..........................not sure I have a fix for that that doesn't involve a lot of money. If it makes you feel any better, my wife has over the years put up with - sometimes with good humor and sometimes not - A failed fuel pump that I fixed with an outboard squeeze bulb. She had to squeeze the whole way home or steer while I squeezed. SQUEEZE HARDER DON'T LET IT GO SOFT was yelled frequently to encourage maintenance of fuel pressure :) An engine that died on the last day of our cruise about 10 yards from the mooring. This then entailed putting the engine in the dinghy, dragging it up on the dock, and using a tree to hoist it into her car. Everything was going great until the A4- lacking a front oil seal - dumped a quart of oil in her car. This same cruise involved several days with a heat index around 108-110 and 100% humidity at night. We tried watching a movie at night in the cockpit for more air and 1,000 moths landed on the TV. And then the engine was in the shop and my basement for 2 months getting fixed. A fuel fill hose that popped a leak and dumped several gallons of gas into the bilge. A bilge pump that for some reason - after a decade of good service - decided to siphon INTO the boat and caused my wife to step into almost knee-deep water around 0200 when she got up to use the head. More engine malfunctions than I can count until I finally gave the damn thing away and got another one. My wife actually accused me of LIKING these issues because one day I was dancing around yelling "I AM A GOD OF ENGINES" after a successful MacGyver fix of some ignition malfunction. Even brand new boats have all kinds of issues. Anyone who buys a used boat or airplane has a year or two of getting everything fixed and even then it is always an adventure. A lot of cash will get you a new boat, but it isn't easy to fix the expectation that old boats (and airplanes and antique cars and 1960s British motorcycles) will run like a Honda Civic. Cruising- (cruzing) Verb. The act of doing boat repairs in exotic locations Joe Della Barba Coquina C&C 35 MK I
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