tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74959474195049482152024-02-19T07:00:26.505-08:00S/V CarolMarieS/V CarolMarie is a 1980 Hans Christian MKII sailboat. The blog here describes the adventures of her captain and crew as they find their way through various adventures.S/V CarolMariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490433111232216606noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495947419504948215.post-25551331887816747082021-04-28T06:11:00.001-07:002021-05-04T10:17:47.518-07:00Tracking the S/V CarolMarie from San Diego to Ko'Olina, Oahu<p> </p><p>According to the Transpac 2021 website there are 60 ships attempting to to sail this year from Southern California to Honolulu. Another site I found showed there were roughly 250 non-military ships that came in from all over the world yearly to Oahu. Interestingly, on any given year a little over 500 people climb Mount Everest. Thus it's easy to say the number of Captains/Skipper who venture to Oahu every year is far less that the number of people to climb Mount Everest.</p><p><strike>We are one week away from leaving as I write this. We've chosen to leave on May 5th at 5:00am. Seeing that the sum of the digits in the year 2021 is 5, we'll cast off on the sum of the 5th year, fifth month, fifth day at the fifth hour - 5-5-5-5. Must be some luck in that somewhere.</strike></p><p>Update - we are now leaving on Thursday May 6th at 7:00am. So we leaving 5th month, 6th day on the 7th hour. That's gotta be lucky. We needing to wait an extra day for the storm offshore to clear.</p><p>Our crew and I will be busy over the next seven days with little access to the internet so while I have the chance I thought I would drop off the tracking website for our trip. We're using a Garmin In Reach Mini as the tracker, and our web-linked map is </p><p><a href="https://share.garmin.com/CarolMariieSDHI">https://share.garmin.com/CarolMariieSDHI</a></p><p>The tracker is on now, and will be until we reach Oahu safely. </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>S/V CarolMariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490433111232216606noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495947419504948215.post-4278928520890027102020-09-20T12:50:00.001-07:002020-09-26T18:27:58.000-07:00Smoke on the Water<p> Past couple of weeks I have been getting out with my marina neighbor Dustin. Dustin's a great guy, computer wiz, that works mostly from his boat so he's COVID safe. </p><p>Dustin's been an awesome crew member, and additionally has a nice eye for photography. Here's a couple of his shots over the couple weeks.</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfXuwfBFqyP4nelDm_ZO-00EkqqpqwwbaBkeahSOQFdOUohsa7ne59B2LeHgcsdGLbs2cmEFSaZYnwObDMS_2MF9W0j9tBzrNBoT9Ns0B_mz38CcbKsqZQxcch5n4iHDSeAmIMPUL8bNs/s1024/Sailing+into+the+Saunset+with+Dustin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfXuwfBFqyP4nelDm_ZO-00EkqqpqwwbaBkeahSOQFdOUohsa7ne59B2LeHgcsdGLbs2cmEFSaZYnwObDMS_2MF9W0j9tBzrNBoT9Ns0B_mz38CcbKsqZQxcch5n4iHDSeAmIMPUL8bNs/w640-h480/Sailing+into+the+Saunset+with+Dustin.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG8v7MOmfPdBOYXjanF9Xi6kVEdgxXqRXvEAol1JmNaIbQsGR-ITO3XFtvHvUq3UzSxNDWhENsz2rmybg-M_f909-7GezF7UuqTy9ovC97MeMS43ypxX86WD_cdX1NxxifZrZf78CRw9Q/s1024/sailing+into+the+sunset+w+Dustin.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1024" data-original-width="768" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG8v7MOmfPdBOYXjanF9Xi6kVEdgxXqRXvEAol1JmNaIbQsGR-ITO3XFtvHvUq3UzSxNDWhENsz2rmybg-M_f909-7GezF7UuqTy9ovC97MeMS43ypxX86WD_cdX1NxxifZrZf78CRw9Q/s320/sailing+into+the+sunset+w+Dustin.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p>S/V CarolMariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490433111232216606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495947419504948215.post-32097602751997809302020-09-20T12:19:00.004-07:002020-09-20T12:19:55.089-07:00Passing the 100 Ton Master’s Exam “RULES OF THE ROAD”<p><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Two important exams for passing the USCG 100 Ton Master’s Exam are Navigation and The Rules of the Road. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;">Both of which you must have a 90% grade on to pass.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px;"> I did two things which helped me get a 98% on the exam first pass.</span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The first was watching the YouTube video from (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4gLCwLWLK0">www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4gLCwLWLK0</a>) everyday twice a day for two weeks. Secondly I wrote the following poem and memorized it. I hope these help you pass the exam as well.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">One night while on watch I spotted there,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">My ship’s captain with graying hair,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As I walked aft, he spotted me,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I said, “what does it take to be a captain, like thee”,</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">He puff his pipe, his face turned a frown,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“You’ll memorize this lad, so jot it down,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The rules of the road is what you’ll need</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">So pay attention lad, and take heed,”</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“When you see another sailing ship at night, you’ll know</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If the lights are green it’s off we go,<span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>1</sup></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If it’s red, heave too, it’s his port ahead<span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>1</sup></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A white light of 135 degrees, it’s her stern,” he said.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“The stink pots are all just like this<span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>2</sup></span>,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Blood over water, that boat’s catching fish,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Green over white they’re trawling a-head,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But red over red means her captain is dead.<span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>3</sup></span>”</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“Lights white over white shows a short tow in sight;</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Yellow over white thus his hawser is tight.<span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>4</sup></span>”</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“Three whites in a row, it’s a hell of a tow, <span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>5</sup></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A yellow over yellow, that pushy inland Capt’n Joe <span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>6</sup></span>”.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“Oversea three reds means draft is way low,<span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>7</sup></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">White over the red, you’ll know, it’s pilot below</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Three green’s on a tree, there’s a mine sweep near me,<span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>8</sup></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Two reds bounding white, RAMs ar’ they be.<span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>9</sup></span>”</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“A white, two reds going down, she’s aground, still at sea, <span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>10</sup></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Two whites apart, a lower red sided by green, the bow of 50m it be <span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>11</sup></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">One white high, a lower red sided by green, a small streamer head on</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Over 100m, two whites apart, a lower red and green, her deck lights too are all go on”</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“During the day the messages all contain,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">With some balls, diamonds, a can, and cones are in this refrain,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Two balls on a dredge, stay clear, go around,<span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>13</sup></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But two diamonds you pass by and you’ll be sound.<span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>13</sup></span>”</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“Two cones, apexes that touch, he’s fishing or trawling as such</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">An apex pointed to the ground, motor is on and sails go down<span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>14</sup></span>,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">When the apex is up, 100m of fishing gear near,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A can in her mast means the draft disappeared.”</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“One ball hanging high, at anchor in her bed <span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>15</sup></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Two balls in a row, the captain is dead below,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Three balls, stay clear, aground is she,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Two balls bounding a diamond, it’s a RAM let her be.”</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“One diamond in the air, means simply there’s a tow back there,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Another diamond at the end you’ll see 200m submerged beware</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Tow boats towing can be RAMs or NUCs</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If three balls in a row they’re still stuck. <span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>16</sup></span>”</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“Over night rooms for sale plus supper, is nothing Jack,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Or’taking, NUC, RAM, Fishing, Sailing, Power, Seaplane is that stack.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">A special case they tell me, is up on the Mississippi </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Tugs they have no masthead as they go, the bridges are too low.”</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“Memorize these words, you’ll be a captain that knows the rules,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">But caution and beware as if you’re stand on and the others are fools,<span style="font-size: 7.3px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>16</sup></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Stand watch all night and you’ll be fine,</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">At your own captain’s table you’ll dine.”</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Footnotes:</b></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">1. Rule 12 for which side the red and green sidelights go on</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">2. Stink pot is a vessel under power.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">3. Captain’s not literally dead, the vessel is Not Under Command NUC something is broken on the vessel.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">4. Hawser is a tow line being towed from behind the tow boat.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">5. Rule 24d a 200m tow in length</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">6. Rule 24f Inland pushing ahead.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">7. Rule28 International only vessel contained by draft</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">8. On a tree meaning the cross of the mast with a light on each branch top, port, and starboard.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">9. Restricted in Ability to Maneuver RAM </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">10. Rule 30 a vessel aground at night or limited visibility</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">11. Rule 23 a</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">12. Rule 27d Dredge</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">13. Rule 27d Dredge</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">14 Rule 25c</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">16 Stuck - being aground….</p><div><br /></div>S/V CarolMariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490433111232216606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495947419504948215.post-68271777719551292372020-09-20T11:56:00.001-07:002020-09-20T11:56:34.426-07:00Errors and Mistakes in Taking the Navigation Exam and Best Known Methods for Accuracy<p> <b style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px;">Abstract</b></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">After taking the Navigational Charting Exam as part of the USCG 100 Ton Master Requirement a set of notes was compiled which may help aid future mariners in passing the exam. Several tips and tricks are listed which I discovered after some frustration upon failing practice exams. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">While taking the Navigation Charting Exam as part of the USCG 100 Ton Master exam I became frustrated after not passing several of the practice tests. The exam is made up of 10 questions, with most of the questions having a dependency which builds upon each other. As a result if a candidate gets an answer wrong in the first few questions, it’s likely the candidate will have incorrect answers on the exam going forward. More importantly the requirement for passing the exam is to have 90% of the answer correct; or no more than one incorrect answer.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Based on this diagram, roughly the overall stack of the three lines amounts to a thickness nearing (3*0.7mm=2.1mm) 2.1mm. From this issue alone there is an error induced of nearly 1/10th of nautical mile. The error is much worse if the lines don’t intersect exactly. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Let’s also consider the errors introduced by starting the line just off the aid to navigation (ATON). On a coastal chart of 1:80,000 line widths on the chart range from 0.1mm thick to nearly 1mm in thickness. Using a caliber measurements of ATON features were done on chart 12221TR, the training chart used for some of the charting exams. The following measurements were found:</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Considering now the errors in alignment to these ATONs introduces a greater variance in selecting the correct answer to exam questions</p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGPUaWwKF9hYeKvNLjvNQzoumIybcz4yMnUlDFJwN-1fhaVJvi7euzeo1_MZz5TiFEJlcOiZSMePOqKx5hTHA9eZT4CfcUkPry30P7vA0jq3HgE_eiQmhqysecs4x9fWb0A_gfMHiVEZ8/s450/distancemarker.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="398" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGPUaWwKF9hYeKvNLjvNQzoumIybcz4yMnUlDFJwN-1fhaVJvi7euzeo1_MZz5TiFEJlcOiZSMePOqKx5hTHA9eZT4CfcUkPry30P7vA0jq3HgE_eiQmhqysecs4x9fWb0A_gfMHiVEZ8/s320/distancemarker.png" /></a></div><br />.<p></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">From the image above if the pencil used is a 0.7mm mechanical pencil, the error again is at worst 0.3mm (1/2 the largest diameter) + 0.7mm (width of the lead) = 1.0mm or 1/20th of a nautical mile. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Consider the instance in which the candidate made the same errors on each of the three lights listed in the question, and added to it the three line stack, the summed errors amount to between 0.2 to 0.4 nautical miles in error. Thus far our analysis hasn’t consider variations in the lead of pencil not in contact with the straight edge to draw the line, the variation in the straight edge to be truly straight, and a host of other errors. In accounting for all the slight possible errors one could make in the mechanical tolerance associated with drafting lines for triangulation to achieve a fix I found the error could easily be between 2.67’ and 3’ of error. </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">If I could eliminate all the errors in the mechanical tolerances I found I could achieve an error less than 0.04’. To achieve this greater accuracy and precision I first needed to get into the minds of the examiners, and took from The American Practical Navigator (aka Bowditch).</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">To understand the context of errors, accuracy, precision and mistakes, one should consider the definitions in context of how the USCG may define the terms. From <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Pub. No. 9 The American Practical Navigator</b></span>, 2002 Edition (aka Bowditch) the definitions are: </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“A <b>standard </b>is a value or quantity established by custom, agreement, or authority as a basis for comparison. Frequently, a standard is chosen as a model which approximates a mean or average condition.”</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“A <b>mistake</b> is a blunder, such as an incorrect reading of an instrument, the taking of a wrong value from a table, a data entry error, or plotting a reciprocal bearing.”</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“<b>Accuracy</b> is the degree of conformance with the correct value, while <b>precision</b> is a measure of refinement of a value.”</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">“<b>Error </b>is the difference between a specific value and the correct or standard value. As used here, it does not include mistakes, but is related to lack of perfection.”</p>
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<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Failure to use available navigational aids effectively </li>
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<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Failure to adjust a magnetic compass or keep a table of corrections </li>
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<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Failure to apply variation </li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Failure to check gyro and magnetic compass readings regularly </li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Failure to keep a dead reckoning plot </li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Failure to plot new information </li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Failure to properly evaluate information </li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Poor judgment </li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Failure to use information in charts and navigational publications </li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Poor navigation team organization </li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Failure to “keep ahead of the vessel” </li>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>“Some of the errors listed above are mechanical and some are matters of judgment. Conscientiously applying the principles and procedures of this chapter will go a long way towards eliminating many of the mechanical errors. However, the navigator must guard against the feeling that in following a checklist he has eliminated all sources of error. A navigator’s judgment is just as important as his checklists. Systematic errors are treated differently. Generally, the navigator tries to discover the errors and eliminate them or compensate for them. In the case of a position determined by three or more lines of position resulting from readings with constant error, the error might be eliminated by finding and applying that correction which will bring all lines through a common point. </i></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>Lines of position which are known to be of uncertain accuracy might better be considered as “bands of position”, with a width of twice the possible amount of error. Intersecting bands of position define areas of position. It is most probable that the vessel is near the center of the area, but the navigator must realize that he could be anywhere within the area, and must navigate accordingly. </i></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>The recognition of a mistake, as contrasted with an error, is not always easy, since a mistake is random, may have any magnitude, and may be either positive or negative. A large mistake should be readily apparent if the navigator is alert and has an understanding of the size of error to be reasonably expected. A small mistake is usually not detected unless the work is checked. </i></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><i>If results by two methods are compared, such as a dead reckoning position and a line of position, exact agreement is unlikely. But, if the discrepancy is unreasonably large, a mistake is a logical conclusion. If the 99.9 percent areas of the two results just touch, it is possible that no mistake has been made. However, the probability of either one having so great an error is remote if the errors are normal. The probability of both having 99.9 percent error of opposite sign at the same instant is extremely small. Perhaps a reasonable standard is that unless the most accurate result lies within the 95 percent area of the least accurate result, the possibility of a mistake should be investigated. “</i></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Using the above information from Bowditch, and my many years teach mechanical drafting in college I developed best known methods for charting. Using these methods I achieve a perfect score on every practice exam and on the actual USCG exam. First consider I will consider the tools needed, and then best practices.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">As a disclaimer I don’t have any financial interest in Weems and Plath, nor am I a big fan of theirs, although it may seems like as you read the next section. The tools were recommended after I did extensive testing from many vendors. Whenever a Weems and Plath tool would break I returned it to the retailer and they replaced immediately with no questions asked. I broken at least three Weems and Plath charting tools and everyone was replaced without a single question.</p>
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<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Purchase the absolute best compass with a mechanical screw wheel you can. Sharpen the lead and align it before and after every use. The variation between the point of the compass and the arc the lead provides is the largest source of error you will have, nearly 0.4mm if not done correctly.</li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Purchase a bunch of wooden/lead art pencils with HB or softer leads. Sharpen all of them the best you possibly can, to the finest point possible. The softer leads draw darker lines, and with a very sharp pencil you can achieve a 0.1mm or less line thickness. After a line was drawn with a pencil set it aside and use another one for the next line. This does require about 15 to 20 very sharp pencils for the charting exam, but its well worth not having to repeat the exam. Bring or buy a simple pencil sharpener too just in case. </li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Purchase two of the Weems and Plath Professional Protractor Triangles. Don’t use any others. These triangles have two nice features. First the protractors have a great spacing between the degrees so they are more precisely read. Second they have small pencil holder on them which make perfect grips to hold them down to the paper chart or slide them along another tool. The recommendation is to buy two because you may find it easier to slide them against each other on the chart to get to a meridian to take an angular measurement.</li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Purchase a Weems Parallel Plotter which is the roller plotter. The device has several nice features. First, the plotter can be used to roll over quickly to check a bearing from a near compass rose. Secondly it has a build in scale of 1NM = 1 Inch for the 1:80,000 scale chart used in the exam. Third there is nice line drawn about a 1/4 inch inward from the drawing edge of the tool. This line allows you to align two close points accurately by using the line as a straight edge as opposed to making an error drawing a line.</li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Purchase the Weems and Plath 7" Compact ParaLock Plotter. The ParaLock allows the user to align points on the chart using a line similar to the roller plotter, but additionally allow you to place your fingers through the paralock to hold it in place while the other straight edge is being stretched. Once the second rule is in it’s desired place the user can tighten the screw locking the parallels in place. Several usages for this tool include making a secondary meridian to take a bearing measurement, and using meridian crossing to draw an exact position transferred from the scales at the edge of the chart.</li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Purchase the Weems and Plath Chart Protractor. Make certain it’s the one with the pencil holder, which again can be used as a handle. The Chart Protractor has two significant features critical to the exam. First it is the largest straight edge you’ll need. On every exam, there was at least one question where I needed to draw a straight line so long the Chart Protractor was the only tool long enough to draw it in continuity. The second great feature is the other long edge of the tool allows you to make markings on the tool which are erasable.</li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Purchase an Alvin Erasing Shield which is stainless steal. This tool allows the user to cover or protect areas they don’t want to erase, while erasing others.</li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Purchase both the Staedtler Mars Erasers which are white and the Prismacolor Kneaded Rubber Erasers which are grey. The Mars white erasers are used for large line erasing and cleaning of the chart, while the grey gummy kneaded eraser is best used for fine work with the Alvin Erasing Shield. The best way to use the kneading eraser is to roll it into a point, the expose the area to be cleaned using the stencil shielding the areas of the line you’d like to keep.</li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Purchase a simple cheap calculator that only does addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. These type of calculators are the only ones the examiner will allowed in the room.</li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Purchase a Staedtler Mars Sandpaper Lead Pointer or bring fine grit sand paper. The sandpaper is used to sharpen the lead of the compass keeping it at fine edge.</li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"> Purchase Neon Page Markers Colored Index Tabs Fluorescent Sticky Note for Page Marker. These are transparent slips of paper, in various neon colors and have a temporary adhesive on one side. During the exam the USCG will not allow permanent marks on the charts, so highlighters are out of the question. The tabs are great for placing them on ATONs used in the questions so they are immediately visible as you go back to them. Because they are transparent you can see through them and you can write on them as well.</li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Purchase a simple cheap stencil with circles, squares, and triangles like the Westcott Technical All Purpose Drawing Template. These type of templates will help you in drawing your fixes, GPS fixes, and DR Positions neatly.</li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">By or make a roll-up bag for all your navigation tools. The bag will help you keep your tools in order while you're taking the exam and will help you transporting them without getting nicks or fractures in your straight edges. </li>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Using just simple plain white copy paper practice drawing lines, draw lines parallel to each other, draw circles using the compass and the stencil, practice erasing parts of these drawings. Use every straight and every tool at least 20 times. </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Although it’s going to seem basic let’s talk about how to draw a straight line. Drawing a straight line should be practiced several times, at various lengths and various widths.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Precise drawing style is important and critical in achieving a minimal error. The best practice is to keep the pencil lead touching the to straight edge with the pencil as close to perpendicular to the chart as possible. As the line is being drawn pull the pencil along the straight edge, keeping the two in contact, slightly rolling the pencil back and forth as the line is being drawn. See style B in the drawing below. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIPUCFr7FSk1ZSDTU6EUz04TydsR05-1ko3ew4k4WxUDIQjvo_5wcYvlb67ITj3JFMaqinB0gJ5PeDV5xlbRobev5LJ4pUSRZwC_xm2tCcYtt9W7RpKJir1m1UjSXa5FP_DuI3qwxIzVw/s623/crawing.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="465" data-original-width="623" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIPUCFr7FSk1ZSDTU6EUz04TydsR05-1ko3ew4k4WxUDIQjvo_5wcYvlb67ITj3JFMaqinB0gJ5PeDV5xlbRobev5LJ4pUSRZwC_xm2tCcYtt9W7RpKJir1m1UjSXa5FP_DuI3qwxIzVw/s320/crawing.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">The rolling of the pencil as it is being pulled creates a line with an even thickness, and constant width as the graphite of the pencil is being laid down on the chart.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">When the wood of the pencil is in contact with the straight edge the pencil will lean and tend to drift away from the straight edge and intended line as seen in Style A above. Over the course of 6 to 8 inches using style A above could create an error of 1<span style="font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>o</sup></span> to 3<span style="font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>o </sup></span>off the intended course.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Another best practice can be used when one or both of your termination points is at an ATON. The secret is to take the point of you compass to make a hole in the exact center of the ATON, push it down to create a small hole. Place the point of the pencil into the newly created hole and use it to align your straight edge to the desired bearing. Don’t move the pencil from the hole because once the straight edge is in place begin drawing the line from the hole. If you practice this technique you’ll soon see your alignment is perfect to the ATON, meaning you’ve reduced the errors discussed earlier.</p>
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<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Find two methods to do everything and do everything twice. If the two methods produce different answers, you’ve likely made a mistake. </li>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">For example if you're asked to find the bearing between two points. First use your Weems and Plath Professional Protractor Triangle and your Weems Parallel Roller Plotter to determine the bearing off the closest meridian. For argument sake let's say the bearing was found to be 223<span style="font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>o </sup></span>T (T stands for True North). Next on your scratch paper “Bearing = 223<span style="font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>o </sup></span>T using W&P Triangle”. Remove the triangle from the chart. Now use your Weems Parallel Roller Plotter to walk the angle to the nearest compass rose. On the compass rose you see the bearing is 222<span style="font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>o </sup></span>T. Again write on your scratch paper ““Bearing = 222<span style="font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>o </sup></span>T using Roller and Rose”. If the multiple choice answers include one of these two you're done, but if the includes both, try another method. Use the Weems and Plath Paralock to walk the bearing to the compass rose. If then you read the compass rose and it reads 223<span style="font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>o </sup></span>T you’ll like have the answer at 223<span style="font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>o </sup></span>T. If there is a larger variation between the two or three methods you have have made a mistake somewhere, try taking the measurements once again.</p>
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<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Label everything with it’s UNITS, TYPE, TIME and QUESTION NUMBER. </li>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">For example if you’re doing a time of arrival calculation and you know the speed (say it’s 5.5 KN) and distance (8.0 NM). (Note KN is Nautical Miles Per hour and NM is Nautical Miles.). You should write out on the scratch paper:</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Time = Distance/Speed = 8.0 (NM) / 5.5 (NM/HR) = 1.454 HRS or 01:27 HH:MM</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Another example if you are plotting on the chart. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD9ZgJow8sPLJOb3U7iAYwCyqFw_bK1lDzqfIAR3bHZE8lBZvFhUGTLFBxrKPVKojrBz1XL1COLuDSL1OJmCO5sCgqBNaTvawjrGDY3YMz9xPaFfZF_zJS2uwJuJa9UuSiOHnZO7onBSs/s942/marking.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="942" height="352" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD9ZgJow8sPLJOb3U7iAYwCyqFw_bK1lDzqfIAR3bHZE8lBZvFhUGTLFBxrKPVKojrBz1XL1COLuDSL1OJmCO5sCgqBNaTvawjrGDY3YMz9xPaFfZF_zJS2uwJuJa9UuSiOHnZO7onBSs/w640-h352/marking.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><br /></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Notice in the figure above the each line is labeled with a course C=310<span style="font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>o</sup></span>T, where T stands for True North, and an arrow on the line indicating the direction. Below the line the Speed, “S” is marked with proper units in nautical miles per hour. The arrow reminds you that you’re going from one point to another. If a mistake is made in the mathematics and your true bearing doesn’t fall within the compass quadrant the arrow on the path makes this mistake readily apparent. As an example if once done with the math of the problem, and your heading is resolved to 220<span style="font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>o</sup></span>T, one should know that 220<span style="font-size: 8px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><sup>o</sup></span>T is SSW and should point downward not NW. Ergo some mistake must have been made. Also notice the marker is highlighted green with the Neon Page Markers Colored Index Tabs, making it easy to find on the chart. </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Each fix or DR in the example above is labeled with it’s question number on the exam, i.e. Q3, or Q6, for question 3 or 6 respectively. The fixes were drawn using the stencil suggested, which adds a level of neatness and professionalism to your charting. </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTkaIWoiS06AzuWoAFAdxiO2lIazrtUO6zqMQPxFX_GybUjyIDw6_-Wc7l49m7DN-g2WjMOXpCf4NqQLsDosmJ2_Q9Zz5dVEs5bKtsVtZnOZabudqBi3qLXykdmKU1IiSJqteAOspGy6Q/s574/chartmod.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTkaIWoiS06AzuWoAFAdxiO2lIazrtUO6zqMQPxFX_GybUjyIDw6_-Wc7l49m7DN-g2WjMOXpCf4NqQLsDosmJ2_Q9Zz5dVEs5bKtsVtZnOZabudqBi3qLXykdmKU1IiSJqteAOspGy6Q/s320/chartmod.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi39Uu058T0dKJa9Y0ZVT4HD0XaSKu3A2Y3HH5JHwJRkJfOqDVgVgCnOqLC0dvxSQT0K6hGy5YEdwLEZEPiN_c1Xzo_LDg45RAt2nxyE8unXJi5YJXawiARh8JngCG7peW9_SZS3r-hL7s/s592/lighthousemod.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="402" data-original-width="592" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi39Uu058T0dKJa9Y0ZVT4HD0XaSKu3A2Y3HH5JHwJRkJfOqDVgVgCnOqLC0dvxSQT0K6hGy5YEdwLEZEPiN_c1Xzo_LDg45RAt2nxyE8unXJi5YJXawiARh8JngCG7peW9_SZS3r-hL7s/s320/lighthousemod.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><br /></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">First let’s actually look at the photograph of the area below. In this photograph, the three crowded features near the shoreline become apparent. The first is a tower marker TR on the chart. The next structure is the actual Cape Henry Light, which is described in the Coastal Pilot Region 3 below. The next feature is an abandon lighthouse, and the further southward and slight to the west is the tank discussed in the Coastal Pilot below.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Extract from <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Coastal Pilot Region 3</b></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><i>“The Maryland pilots maintain a Pilot Tower with the Virginia pilots at Cape Henry, just north of </i><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><i>Cape Henry Light.</i></b></span><i> The pilots monitor VHF-FM channels 11, 13 and 16. The pilot boats are stationed in Lynnhaven Inlet. They are 52 feet long with a black hull and white house displaying the “PILOT” on each side.</i></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><i>Cape Henry Light</i></b></span><b><i> </i></b><i>(36°55'35"N., 76°00'26"W.), 164 feet above the water, is shown from an octagonal, pyramidal tower, upper and lower half of each face alternately black and white, on the beach near the turn of the cape. </i></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><i>The gray octagonal, pyramidal tower 110 yards southwest of Cape Henry Light is the abandoned 1791 lighthouse. </i></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><b><i>Local magnetic disturbance </i></b></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><i>Differences of as much as 6° from the normal variation have been observed 3 to 17 miles offshore from Cape Henry to Currituck Beach Light. </i></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><i>A naval restricted area extends northward and eastward from Cape Henry. (See 33 CFR 334.320, chapter 2, for limits and regulations.) </i></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><i>The summer resort of Virginia Beach is about 5 miles southward of </i><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b><i>Cape Henry Light</i></b></span><i>. Many high-rise buildings, two water tanks, and an aerobeacon 2.8 miles inland are prominent. A hotel cupola, 3.4 miles south of Cape Henry Light, is distinctive.“</i></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The important take away is that one should read the Coastal Pilot about the landmarks and ATON when they are on the exam. The Coastal Pilot gives you the exact LAT/LONG for the light, and explains which of the four possible features is the Cape Henry Light. So before highlighting and using the ATON for bearings or triangulations to a fix be certain you are on the correct ATON. See below </p><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitHkehzAiF-SWAB6tpVTIaM-a9MYlNzvUB5u_rh2Nc9TcyJgVnhpaudbIzEylZhurSy7qT2RGx2xkTGCgkJ2N5j5gKPENNhyVCajn1Z8iCBSE6jADm2Swb3slQL84go-rf4Kd0sdoJPpI/s547/charttolights.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="547" data-original-width="366" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitHkehzAiF-SWAB6tpVTIaM-a9MYlNzvUB5u_rh2Nc9TcyJgVnhpaudbIzEylZhurSy7qT2RGx2xkTGCgkJ2N5j5gKPENNhyVCajn1Z8iCBSE6jADm2Swb3slQL84go-rf4Kd0sdoJPpI/w428-h640/charttolights.png" width="428" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><b>3.4 Being Methodical In Charting and in the Exam</b></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">During the charting exam you will be provided with two white sheets of paper for scratch paper, the exam book with the questions, an answer sheet, the chart needed for the exam, the light list, and the Coast Pilot for the region your chart is in, and your navigation tools. My recommendation is to treat every practice exam like it was the real exam, only use what is intended during the exam.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>1. Do this before anything else:</b></span></p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">At the top of one of the pages of the scrap paper write out the following:</p>
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<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">GO SLOW TAKE YOUR TIME</li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">READ ALL THE QUESTION, and ALL THE ANSWER BEFORE BEGINNING ANY CHARTING OR CALCULATIONS</li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">DOUBLE CHECK YOUR MARKS, and YOU ANSWERS.</li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">BE NEAT - GO SLOW</li>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Although writing these down at first may seem like a waste of time, it actually sets you mind into a framework of doing the exam and eases stress about taking the exam. Remember the USCG doesn’t grade of how fast you answer only that you answer correctly.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">2. Set the answer sheet to the side don’t even mark on it until you’ve finished the exam.</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">3. Open the exam book and read the first question and all the answers twice. Below is an example from the sample test.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">030° <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3.0°E</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">060° <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>4.0°E</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">090° <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>2.0°E</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">240<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>3.0°W</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Q1. At 0939 your GPS position is LAT 36°57.0'N, LONG 75°41.0'W. You are on course 119° per standard magnetic compass at a speed of 12.8 knots. At 1017 your GPS indicates your position as LAT 36°54.2'N, LONG 75°33.1'W. What were the set and drift?</p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"> (A) 103°T at 1.1 knots </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"> (B) 091°T at 1.6 knots </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"> (C) 275°T at 1.8 knots </p>
<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"> (D) 280°T at 1.0 knot</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><b>GIVEN:</b> @ 0939 GPS LAT 36°57.0'N, LONG 75°41.0’W </p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> @1017 GPS LAT 36°54.2'N, LONG 75°33.1’W.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;"><i>1017-0939 = 0 hours 38 minutes</i></p>
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<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">On the Training Chart used for the examine familiarize yourself with every entry and corner. Remember the Pareto ranking of failures in navigation from Bowditch, number 2 was the misidentification of ATON’s. Let’s examine the area of the Chart 12221TR used in the exam. Notice in the upper left the area generally called New Pt. Comfort. When we examine this area closely as seen below several interesting ATONs and soundings pop out that would make it easy to choose the wrong one.</li>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Similarly in the same region if ask to use the ATON “4” from New Point Comfort you could easily mistake the two ATON’s in the blue and purple box. One should double check that your assumptions before plotting bearings and positions to know the ATON’s are correct. Familiarizing yourself with the chart and double checking the ATON’s is the best way to avoid such errors.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The best advice I got before the exams came from reading the side of the drink bottle, “As is in life, chill for best results.” If you practice a couple times a day, go slow, double check your answers, draw straight lines, use the tips included in this paper, your likelihood to pass is better than not.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><b>5.0 References</b></p>
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<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Pub. No. 9 American Practical Navigator: An Epitome of Navigation: Originally by Nathaniel Bowditch, LLD</b></span>, 2017 ED. Prepared and published by the NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCYSpringfield, Virginia, 2017 (<a href="https://thenauticalalmanac.com/2017_Bowditch-_American_Practical_Navigator/Volume-_1/01-%20Vol.%201-%20Front%20Matter/Front%20Matter.pdf">https://thenauticalalmanac.com/2017_Bowditch-_American_Practical_Navigator/Volume-_1/01-%20Vol.%201-%20Front%20Matter/Front%20Matter.pdf</a>)</li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>United States Coast Pilot 3 Atlantic Coast: Sandy Hook, New Jersey to Cape Henry, Virginia,</b></span> NOAA, 2020 (53rd) Edition (<a href="https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/publications/coast-pilot/files/cp3/CPB3_WEB.pdf">https://nauticalcharts.noaa.gov/publications/coast-pilot/files/cp3/CPB3_WEB.pdf</a>)</li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">U.S.C.G. Merchant Marine Exam Master Less than 100 Gross Registered Tons Q350 Navigation Problems – Chart 12221TR (Sample Examination) (<a href="https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/NMC/pdfs/examinations/q350_nav_problems_chart_12221TR.pdf">https://www.dco.uscg.mil/Portals/9/NMC/pdfs/examinations/q350_nav_problems_chart_12221TR.pdf</a>)</li>
<li style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 8px;">Chart 12221TR Chesapeake Bay Entrance, NOAA, Jan 2014. (<a href="https://www.charts.noaa.gov/PDFs/12221.pdf">https://www.charts.noaa.gov/PDFs/12221.pdf</a>) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></li></ol>
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The three radios were the West Marine Submergible VHF 150, Uniden Atlantis 200, and the Standard Horizon Floating HX290. All three were kept in a bottom drawer near the floor of the cabin. I decided to conduct a test which began with charging the three for 12 hours, followed by a operational volume test on a weather channel for 2 hours, finally a test of receive and transmit periodically on channel 16. The third test criteria include the specification that the radio last for at least 8 hours which should cover a shift at sea. </div>
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Right off the bat the West Marine VHF 150 failed the charging test. Both sides of the charger connector suffered extreme corrosion. Although trying to remove the corrosion there wasn't anything I could do bring the radio's charging station back to life. The corrosion is shown in the photos below.</div>
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I brought the West Marine radio back to the house and removed the connectors on both sides, then directly soldered the charger to the internal charger stand's PCB. The charger then worked without a problem.</div>
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The purpose for this test was to simulate a mariner listening to posts of incoming weather fronts which maybe hazardous while at sea. Both radios performed well through the tests. The signal was clear on both radios from beginning to end of the 2 hour period. Despite being on for 2 hours neither radios battery indicator showed anything but a full charge. Both radios were then placed back on their chargers for another 12 hour period before the next test began.</div>
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So after 8 to 10 years the Standard Horizon HX 290 and the Uniden Atlantis 200 still performed as needed, and I will conduct the same test in another decade, stay tuned to see what holds up.</div>
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Over the summer we pulled the CarolMarie out here in San Diego and gave her a new heart. </div>
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First thanks to the fellows at A-Dock in Chula Vista Marina we got out the old engine. </div>
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Once the engine was out we painted the engine bay bright white.<br />
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Then the new BetaMarine came in, with muffler, transmission, control panel, water heater, and lift mounts.</div>
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The new engine needed a new shaft and while she was out a new bottom job.</div>
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The Ocean Institute at Dana Point every year throws an incredible event called the Tall Ship's Festival (https://www.ocean-institute.org/post/tall-ships-festival-presented-toshiba). The festival includes cannon battles, parades of ships, mermaids, concerts, sails & ales and a host of other things.</div>
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The wonderful and beautiful first mate waited in line for a slip for us six months ago, getting the best slip in the event. With all that pressure we wanted the Carolmarie to look her best for the September event. First we pulled off all the stantions. </div>
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And then began sanding the caprail in preparation for another three coats of Bristol Epoxy.<br />
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Thank god for Katie and Uncle Keni, the two of them went at it for three days, sanding, varnishing, rinse and repeat.<br />
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I worked on embedding the chainplates again, they'd leaked coming down the coast.<br />
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We finished off the varnish on the side boards with polysulfide chalk between the boards and the hull to set them off a bit.<br />
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We cleaned the fenders, finished the interior cockpit varnishing, and cleaned her up.<br />
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Now looking back from the day I bought her until now she's has really transformed.</div>
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<br />S/V CarolMariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490433111232216606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495947419504948215.post-89219581508792416192018-01-02T15:09:00.003-08:002018-01-04T11:05:01.180-08:00Boat Steps and Boat BoxesI have held off as long as I could about getting a set of steps for the boat. I finally went looking for some on the web. I wanted something that would complement the CarolMarie's teak trim and yet not drop the price of a dinghy on it.<br />
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I found lots of teak steps which were very pricey, but nothing that would satisfy what I needed.<br />
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Having no luck after nights of searching, I turned to my own design skills to see if I could hack a nice set together.<br />
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I found these 24 inch garden boxes from Signature Hardware called: <span style="background-color: #fffffe; color: #665b50; font-family: , ".sfnstext-regular" , "san francisco" , "roboto" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-transform: uppercase;">HOLLEY 24"<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><mark style="background-color: #ffeda4; font-family: -apple-system, ".SFNSText-Regular", "San Francisco", Roboto, "Segoe UI", "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: uppercase;">TEAK </mark><span style="background-color: #fffffe; color: #665b50; font-family: , ".sfnstext-regular" , "san francisco" , "roboto" , "segoe ui" , "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-transform: uppercase;">OUTDOOR STORAGE BOX. </span>I went about the design process to show how to cut them down into the proper shape.<br />
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The idea was to get two of these boxes and cut the first down to make the lower step. with a 10"platform a 10" rise seem to suit just fine. The top of the first step was screwed to the four posts of the box because there was no need to open it.<br />
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The next step was a visual mock up to see if it fit.<br />
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Happy with the design and sketch i ordered two boxes to be delivered to my uncle Keni's place in Chula Vista. Uncle Keni is a great woodworker and had the whole think cut down and varnished in a two week period. To make the teak look a little more realistic Keni caulked the gaps in the top of the box making it look like a ship's deck.<br />
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Seeing the final product I couldn't believe it might not get stolen so we stuck our boat name on it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Showing off the inside.</td></tr>
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Once that was complete we decided to add a deck box in the same way. Again I when back to Signature Hardware and found a good fit. This time we used the 3 ft Terrel Natural Teak Storage Box, as the basis for the deck box. This is the box as it came from Signature Hardware.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original box from Signature Hardware</td></tr>
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The next step was to make it water tight, not water proof. I purchased 1/8" plywood with a birch veneer to line the inside of the box between the panels. Before the panels of the box were assembled, (they come from the vendor knocked down flat), each segment was treated with 2-part epoxy urethane.<br />
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Next each of the inner inserts were treated with the same 2-part epoxy after being cut to size. These inserts were with screwed with brass screws or glued into place. The effect was a 3-D teak and holly appearance from the box slats.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Insert epoxied and ready for assembly</td></tr>
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The top of the box was treated in the same way as the stairs using a black deck caulk to seal it, then adding the epoxy on top of it. Once this was done of course the boat's name and logo were added.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Top of the box ready for assembly</td></tr>
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With the top of the box completed the entire thing was assembled and the final touch ups of the epoxy done.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final touch ups complete after assembly.</td></tr>
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The last step was to add the locker hasp. A brass one was ordered off the internet and fit nicely with the gold offset lettering of the boats name.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hasp added to lock her up.</td></tr>
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When we put her on the deck, the dinghy fit snuggly inside, the old girl looked sharp.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deck box mounted with dinghy inside.</td></tr>
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This weekend Ray McCracken and Alicia Watkins came down from Portland for a visit and break from the rain. Ray is the current Commodore of the Sauvie Island Yacht Club, and Alicia has long worked on the newsletter and been a great friend.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ray and Alicia at the West Marine in Chula Vista</td></tr>
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After bumming around the tall ships at the San Diego Maritime Museum we met up with other SIYC members George and Sue Stonecliff for dinner before their start in the 2017 Baja Ha Ha. George and Sue own a beautiful yawl called the Julia Max.<br />
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The next morning our plans were to follow them out of the Chula Vista Marina, and sail with them in the Baja Ha Ha parade through the port of San Diego.<br />
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This morning Charing and I met Ray and Alicia at the boat, with plenty of food and drinks. With any start on the CarolMarie, there are plans until she tells me otherwise. Of course this was one of those times when we almost didn't leave the dock because she had other plans. With all the lights on, shore power off I tried to start her up. Of course that blew the two existing Class T fuses ($30/ea). After getting them replaced, the engine wouldn't start. Finally through some trouble shooting I checked the battery terminals, they were all lose enough the charger wasn't charging them correctly. After locking them down, and 15 minutes of shore power charging, she started.<br />
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We motored out of the marina about 45 minutes later then planned, the Julia Max was already under the Coronado Bridge, about 6 miles ahead. With the motor, tides and wind in our favor, we unfurled the 130% jenny and we took off at 7.5 knots over water. In no time we'd caught up with the Julia Max.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Deck of the CarolMarie looking at the bridge before setting sail.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Julia Max displaying her flags ready for the start.</td></tr>
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It wasn't long before the entire Baja Ha Ha fleet had surrounded us. Over 150 boats had registered this year for the 11 day run to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. One look at the tight quarters shown on the AIS gives you a feel of the pack. Only about 1/3 of the boats have AIS transponders though, so imagine the photo below with 3 times more boats around us. We are the little white boat on the screen with the red and green bow.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">AIS of the Baja Ha Ha Fleet.</td></tr>
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We listened to Channel 69 as the Grand-Pooh -Ba directed all boats to get as close together as possible because media including CNN were on the committee boat taking pictures. Suddenly we found ourselves locked into formation of a flotilla of slow moving boats approaching the starting line.<br />
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We found a sister ship amid the flotilla, another Hans Christian 38, called Amistad.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">S/V Amistad at the start</td></tr>
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It wouldn't be San Diego with out having the U.S. Navy delay a day's sailing. With just 4 minutes to start the Grand-Pooh-Ba came on the radio saying the start was to be delayed and he'd call for a one minute warning to the start after a Navy warship had past the flotilla.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stalled at the start waiting for the Navy to pass by.</td></tr>
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The fleet began to break up a bit giving me the chance to turn and slow down as the Navy did their thing. Julia Max surged ahead as we drifted to the back of the fleet.<br />
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The one minute warning was given, the count down began. As the minute closed, I never heard the starting gun go off, but I did hear more and more boat horns, and cheers. The 2017 Baja Ha Ha started, and the CarolMarie, even though in the back of the pack passed by the committee boat. Shortly afterward we turned around and headed back for the marina.<br />
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Charing and I sat in the cockpit and listened to the roll call of the boats crossing the line. When the Grand-Pooh-Ba called out "Julia Max", we heard our friend Sue reply, "Julia Max - three souls aboard." Charing and I looked at each other, with watery eyes and sighed.<br />
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Good luck Baja Ha-Ha 2017 Fleet - fair winds and safe travel to you all.<br />
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<br />S/V CarolMariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490433111232216606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495947419504948215.post-86154149024465796352017-08-15T21:11:00.000-07:002017-08-15T21:11:00.273-07:00S/V CarolMarie in the CV! - The Chula Vista MarinaTwo months in the Chula Vista Marina.....<br />
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Before coming down from Portland we did a little research (we actually means Charing did it and I took credit as the captain.) . The Chula Vista Marina seemed to be the best place to moor from a cost and services point of view.<br />
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First there is Mike Sullivan the harbor master who keeps a great eye on the marina, seems easy going, and professional. There is a reason for it too, with 552 slips to look after. The marina was opened in 1984. Most of the staff has been there a long time. <br />
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The marina and RV park is separated by Chula Vista Bayside Park. The separation park is basically a walkway to the park which terminates at south bay. On the south side of the park is a fishing pier, and on the north side a large walking park with picnic areas. The parks walkway is alway full of people strolling, running, and walking their dogs. From the cockpit of the CarolMarie we have a great view of the fishing pier.<br />
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Both the marina and the RV park are fenced and gated with locked gates. Security patrols from the marina staff patrol the docks at night.<br />
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The concrete docks designed in upwind/downwind configuration, with single berth configurations each with a dock box, water, and power. Every four or five slips is a trash can fixed to the dock, so you don't have to haul the trash all the way to the dumpster. There are free boater education classes every weekend in the boater lounge. The restrooms are very clean, and nice showers. There is a pool and hot tub as well. The laundry room has a row of washers and dryers which always seem to be unused when I pass by.<br />
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One of the best parts about the marina is the Boater Concierge Service. Although this sounds expensive it's not and very much worth the price. The service offer a once a month boat cleaning above the waterline, a once a month bottom cleaning, and a pump-out service. Although the slip fees is on par with California prices, the service isn't. I get the service for the price of what I paid to just have a diver clean the bottom. The boat has never been cleaner on the outside.<br />
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Pump out guy - aka the Pump Out King comes to your boat for $10.00 if you don't have the concierge service. His dog Shaddy usually lies on bow of his service boat as he does his business.<br />
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What's unique here is the payment method for the Pump Out King. The preferred protocol is to run out to life lines, clip on the fee (and a tip for Shaddy), then text the POK your marina, your slip number, and your boat name. Sometime in the few hours to the next day, you'll find your tank is clean, and the fee is collected.<br />
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The marina has a restaurant/bar onsite called the "Galley". The Galley opens at 8am for breakfast, serves, lunch and dinner, then offers drinks and usually a live band at night.<br />
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A couple of weeks after sailing down from Portland I caught a bad case of pneumonia. Rather then staying at the apartment by myself I recovered at the marina. The week and a half it took to recover went by fast, in part due to the great service from the Galley. The bartender was awesome when I couldn't even speak, and brought out bowls of soup.<br />
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Every weekend I journey down to the CV to spend the weekend on her. With the help of Charing's Uncle Keni we've done a few major projects. <br />
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Nearly every weekend boaters gather on the docks; camping chairs out to watch the sunset. Afterwards we sit around, have a few drinks and debate the finer points of cruising. <br />
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On August 5th (8-5) was the "Five O'Clock Somewhere" Party - lasting from 5-8. (get the numbers theme?) . Mike through a great party, with a band, free beer, and BBQ sandwiches.<br />
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The CV Marina is a wonderful place. If you come to Southern California there is no better place to stay.<br />
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<br />S/V CarolMariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490433111232216606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495947419504948215.post-16092199907165853932017-08-03T12:53:00.001-07:002017-08-03T12:53:18.846-07:00Oh That Smell - Replacing the holding tankAfter our trip down the coast we had entered into warmer weather, and with warmer weather the cabin began to take on an unpleasant smell. I had traced the smell back to holding tank which due to poor design was directly beneath the pullman berth where I slept. After taking all the bedding apart noticed the tank was leaking from around the flanges, hoses, and small cracks on the bottom of the tank.<br />
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The first step was to label all the hose and then figure out how all this works.</div>
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Once I labeled all the components of the sanitation system, I created a diagram of the system to ensure I would get the right parts, and know how it all works later.</div>
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To show the damage to the holding tank you can see the evidence in the photo below.</div>
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I removed the tank and then spent a good amount of time with bleach, soap, and rags cleaning this area of the bilge. On the HC 38MKII this area of the boat is isolated from the bilge to create a water tight compartment. This compartment holds the holding tank, the forward diesel tank, the inlet strainer for the head, through holes for the heads inlet and outlet. <div>
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My good friend who is my wive's uncle, Keni came by to help. With the old tank out we did test fits with the new tank. Everything seemed to reach without having to add new hoses. We pulled the tank out and went back to the cockpit to assembly everything. </div>
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Keni brought along his electric drill and bit, so we could mark the location of the hole for the tank's gage. A 1.25" diameter hole was drilled out in the top of the tank, then the flanges and plugs were added. The new flanges had sharper rising spurs then the old tank did. </div>
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S/V CarolMariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490433111232216606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495947419504948215.post-86194940520996932682017-07-25T23:23:00.002-07:002017-07-25T23:23:30.543-07:00Hearing Yourself in Someone Else's Book: GOD BLESS Amazon!My adventure began while unpacking a bin of stuff from our recent move to Southern California. I came across one of favorite gazettes - my Kindle DX. My wonderful wife bought it for me years ago, so I was sure it wouldn't work. I loved this device for two reasons: first it has a free 3G world wide modem built right into it and secondly because it has the capability of text to speech. The Kindle DX will read just about any book to you from your Amazon collection. As a slow reading dyslexic really appreciated this feature.<br />
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Well, I had long ago lost the email account which tied to the Amazon Prime credentials on the device. Hoping just to get the thing working I de-registered the device and did a factory reset. After numerous attempts and trying the manual update (just in case you need it - https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201504450) I had not luck in getting it back on Amazon. <br />
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With nothing left to loose I called Amazon and after proving I was who I was, for my new account I explained the problem to their tech support person. She was awesome; she immediately looked into my old account. I had a ton of books on the old account and only used the new one to order items and watch Amazon prime movies. (I believe Amazon Prime has the largest collection of sailing movies on the web.). By the end of the conversation the help at Amazon had refunded me my $99 from my new account, shut it down, established my new credentials on my old account and in less then 30 minutes I was $99 richer, had all my old ebooks, and my Kindle DX was working!<br />
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Once the Kindle DX was finished the first book that popped up was <b>Breaking Seas: An overweight, middle-aged computer nerd buys his first boat, quits his job, and sails off to adventure, </b>by Glenn Damato. The book is an auto-biography of his life leading up him sailing off into the horizon, and then becomes of travel log of his adventures.<br />
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As a Cold War veteran, Glenn found himself in the.technology industry during Silicon Valley's boom. Much like me, he came just on the tail end of it, so neither of us had Bill Gates like wealth. Much like myself Glenn read everything on the web about blue water sailing, naval architecture, storm tactics, etc. He'd become a knowledge sponge soaking up as much knowledge of seamanship as his cranium would allow. Once again, like your truly purchase a classic boat in much need of repair. Glenn chronicles his next two years of gaining experience sailing in the Bay Area while recommissioning the boat for his dream journey.<br />
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Through a series of twists and turns he finally set out under the Golden Gate Bridge, With his crew his experiences along the California coast parallel my own recent exploits. I am not going to say anymore on Glenn's adventure because the ending came as a shocker to me:I spoil it for the anyone wanting to read it<br />
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Breaking Seas has become one of favorite books, I actually complete the book in four hours cover to cover last Saturday morning. Glenn's style, the way he handled and solved problems coupled with his writing style make the book a great book on I would highly recommend<br />
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<br />S/V CarolMariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490433111232216606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495947419504948215.post-81195349681060029992017-07-05T10:03:00.000-07:002017-07-05T13:42:57.031-07:00Days 10 and 11 Sailing from Portland to San Diego - Arrival<span style="background-color: white; color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">June 5th and 6th of 2017</span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">At midnight I came on watch as we neared Point Conception. Everything was going smoothly until about 1:30am when I noticed on the AIS we had a large cargo ship about 5 miles away on a collision course with us. The AIS identified the ship as YM Mandate. I hailed YM Mandate on the VHF and we shifted to another channel to talk about collision avoidance. The radio operator on YM Mandate stated he could not see us on radar. I gave them our position, heading and our bearing to them. After a brief pause on their side the conversation went like this:</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">YM Mandate: CarolMarie we can't see you on radar or see you visually. What do you suggest? Over.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">CarolMarie: YM Mandate hold please, over. (I did quick calculations on plotting collision avoidance.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">CarolMarie: YM Mandate I suggest you shift your heading 20 degrees to the west to avoid collision. Please confirm over.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">YM Mandate: CarolMarie I confirm we will shift 20 degree to west from our current heading. Please stand by on this channel until passing over.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">YM Mandate: CarolMarie this is YM Mandate over.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">CarolMarie: Please go ahead YM Mandate over.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">YM Mandate: CarolMarie are you that small sailboat off to our starboard side about a 1/2 mile away. over. (I looked at our chart plotter to see, yep its us.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">CarolMarie: YM Mandate I confirm, that is us, over.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">YM Mandate: You are a small sailboat, you made us move, over.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">CarolMarie: You asked for a suggestion, over.</span></span><br />
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The Santa Barbara Channel was full of fishermen, oil rigs, otters, seals and dolphins. A thick layer of fog surrounded us as we'd pass an oil rig or a fishing boat.<br />
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After dinner the third and final autopilot motor failed. This was odd because two of them failed in calm seas. With them dead, the sun setting and us approaching the LA basin I didn't want any chance of an accident while hand steering. We changed the watches to two on switching people every two hours. This gave each man four on and four off, except for Bill our cook, how had every other shift five off to cook.</div>
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I went off watch at 4:00am, when I woke up it was late into my watch. Both Paul and Bill let me sleep in, it was about 9:20am when I woke up to a misty rainy fog.<br />
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The weather cleared up through the day, winds built back up and we were off to sailing again. Light swells and no waves.<br />
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As luck would have it the dolphins came back at us. They would come in lined up parallel to the boat, heading direction into us, pushing fish along the way.<br />
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We continued motor sailing for a while when we came upon Warship 53 in the distance. We stay far away from him trying to keep out of their way.<br />
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As we got near Point Loma, the Warship turned into the channel for the bay and we thought they'd be pulling in soon. We had turned off the motor to save fuel and were under sail.</div>
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We cut Point Loma close as we were on a heading that would round an underwater buoy at near the end of the point. The underwater buoy marked the edge of a sewer line that we didn't want to interfere with it.<br />
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After a brief dialogue with the Navy and their "warships" we rounded Point Loma to come into the San Diego Bay.<br />
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<b>Postscript</b> [During the night of the 3rd our Autopilot control unit began acting flakey. I replace the control unit, we had a spare one. The wires from the connector plugging the unit into the sidewall of the boat had become exposed create a periodic electrical open.]<br />
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<b>June 4th of 2017</b><br />
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At midnight I came on watch and decided we should pull into the next harbor on the way to check everything and get the crew some rest from the last few days. Looking through the charts the bast place to pull in was Morro Bay.<br />
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Morro Bay is seen from the water by two geographic features. The first is Morro Rock, standing 576 feet tall ir is a volcanic plug. Morro Rock is now a historic land mark with a walking park surrounding it. The other feature is the three large smoke stacks coming from the old PGE power plant. The plant was shut down about four years ago and it's unknown what they will do with it.<br />
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There is a Shell fuel dock, and almost no transient moorage so it was going to be a short stop over. I took the watch from midnight until we got into Morro Bay. We approached the bay's bar roughly about how 6:30am as the sun came up. At the same time the fog came in making it hard to find the red and white bar marker. As we found it raising out of the fog came a fishing boat a 1/8th mile off our bow. Both of us turning to port avoided a collision. The swells were still large, as we approached the next red buoy. Coming into the bar saw both sides of the bar markers keeping to port as the depth and current favored that side. Once across the bar a series of small buoys supported a dredge pipe which seemed to surround the inlet past the bar. It was impossible to find our way through and we nearly aborted this beautiful harbor. We finally found the channel, and motored our way up to the fuel dock. <br />
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The fuel dock was 20 foot or so above the water, so docking was a little bit of a challenge with the current moving through the bay. We finally tied up and we were there before they'd open. About 7:30am the operator opened the fuel dock. We topped off the fuel, water, added oil and checked all systems. <br />
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One thing that had happened was the clamps holding the transmission heat exchanger had fallen off and no one had noticed. We'd noticed it a few days back and repaired it temporarily with cable ties. Since we were in the small town, Bill volunteered to pick up oil as well as hose clamps needed for a proper fix.</div>
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Paul disappeared for a walk while I waited on the boat. Later he appeared with a large brown paper bag. Once we got the new clamps on, we got underway. Paul then announced he gotten biscuits and gravy from the local cafe as a surprise breakfast. Bill warmed them up and it was a nice meal after crossing the Morro River Bar back to sea.<br />
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As dusk set in the Autopilot motor basically fell apart on the cockpit floor. I picked up the pieces and brought out a replacement. It continued to work as we went on to Point Conception in hopes of calmer seas and nice wind.<br />
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<b style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 14.850000381469727px;"><br /></b><span style="background-color: white; color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.850000381469727px;"></span><span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">I haven't seen our stowaways at all. I hope they made it back to land safely. We approached Cape Mendocino thinking it was going to be the hardest part of the trip. The cape is the farthest western part of California, a place where three tectonic plates come together. The wave were suppose to be high and confused seas as the sea floor raises due to this geologic intersection of plates. When we passed it the swells and wave basically hadn't change since we'd left Oregon.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">About 3:00pm we listened to the weather reports. Predictions were that through the evening the wind would grow to 30-35 knots gusting to 60 knots. I told the crew we should likely take down the sails before I turn in at 8:00pm. We had an early dinner of chicken, green beans and salad. I took a quick nap.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">When I awoke from the nap Bill and Paul were sitting in the cockpit, sun was setting, and seas were small. We were sailing well and making good time. I asked Bill and Paul about taking down the sails. We all came to the realization we made had e avoided the weather predicted or it was wrong. I went to bed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">We are making fairly good time averaging about 6.6 knots speed over ground. I came on watch at midnight and the swells have gotten large. We're about 25 miles north of Coos Bay, Oregon. I don't know much about Coos Bay other than it's favorite son, Steve Prefontaine. I always remember his quote, "To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift."</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">At 1425 we heard a call from the U.S. Coast Guard of a vessel in distress 10 miles west of us. The vessel's engine was having trouble. We responded to the Coast Guard's call that we could assist if needed. They responded that the vessel's captain wanted to be towed back to Lincoln City Oregon rather then the closer harbor of Coos Bay. We notified them that we were not going backwards to help in the assist.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4f4f4f; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14.850000381469727px;">When I came on shift we'd just entered California's waters. Still no winds at 25 miles off shore. made a list of the things to do for the next day. We checked the oil, added some to the engine. We checked the transmission fluid, engine mounts, through holes valves, bilge, changed fuel tanks, cleaned up, and had everyone shower and ready for the coming day. </span></span><br />
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<b>Postscript</b> [ <i>I should say for the record that a few days ago when Donnie dropped in the new muffler. When I started the boat both Paul and Donnie saw white smoke, hot water and small white feathers coming from the exhaust port. It's an important detail for the reader for later in the saga</i>. ]<br />
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Crossing the Columbia River Bar for sailors is a big deal. The bar is known as the grave yard of the Pacific Ocean, with over 2000 large ship wreck tallied through the years. It is so dangerous that the bar pilots are paid over $180,000 a year to bring in ship today.<br />
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Meriwether Lewis and William Clark arrived in July of 1806 being so impressed they named it Cape Disappointment, so there isn't much more to say about the place. <br />
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The bar is about 6 miles long and three miles across. The "green side" (following the green buoys) as I call it lies to the north of the bar just off the North Jetty. The green side hugs the large rock wall creating large waves if you ride across that side. The only time I ever came through the green side was going up to Barkley Sound some years ago following S/V Rowena. Alicia on Rowena reported seeing 60% of the CarolMarie's bottom as we topped wave after wave.<br />
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The "red side" of the bar (following inside the red buoys) as I call it, only comes close to the south jetty at it's very end. With mostly northerly winds staying off the south jetty going out makes a smoother ride. Dealing with the westerly swells becomes the only concern. Our plan was to be out on the bar a little before the outgoing tide and have it propel us outward to sea.<br />
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<b>May 28th Day 2.</b><br />
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We woke up early, Bill made coffee and oatmeal for us all. Afterward I went through the checklist with the crew. We checked the transmission, transmission fluid, tied down the heat exchanger that had worked itself loose, checked engine mounts, changed the water pump just in case, checked and added oil. We ran the Jacklines, set up the stationary tethers in the cockpit and the dynamic ones on the port and starboard Jacklines. <br />
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Meanwhile Bill made sandwiches for lunch and dinner in case of a bad bar crossing or rough seas. Bill prepared the galley and provisions for the crossing and the open ocean.<br />
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Next was to check the SSB before heading out to sea. Some time ago we installed an ICOM M802 aboard as the new SSB. The marine single sideband transceiver operates on frequencies in the shortwave spectrum between 2 MHz and 26 MHz. These short wavelength frequencies refract radio signals off the ionosphere, reflect off sea water, and may easily skip hundreds and thousands of miles around the earth. We had never tested our SSB at a distance. Before leaving I spoke to my good friend Jim Noval who badly wanted to go on the journey but couldn't but said he'd be our radio hop to Charing and Theresa. Jim's boat S/V Ranidan would call us on SSB at set times. The protocol was to begin every day at 9:30am on 4.146 Mhz if no answer after 5 minutes we'd go to 3.968MHz and then again after 5 minutes to 7.238MHz. We would repeat the protocol until 10:00am Pacific time. Although we tried it appeared Jim's boat needed a setting changed. So we counted on our cellular phones and VHF as our communication means. Bill brought along a SPOT Satellite GPS Messenger to send our positions back to shore as needed.<br />
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We were so busy the morning past quickly; we'd almost missed our chance to cross the bar. Based on the schedule I had the sack tide was around 2:00pm. Astoria West Basin is 14 miles from the bar so we needed to leave at 11:30am. With the tide coming in we'd being losing 2 knots to our speed of 5 knots. We left the dock right at 11:30.<br />
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Upon leaving the dock and entering into the Columbia River, Paul and I set the main sail with a single reef. Once the main sail was set we accelerated beginning the voyage again.<br />
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While waiting to approach the bar we had our lunch thanks to Bill. He'd made these wonderful cheese spread sandwiches. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bill having lunch and watching the river traffic.</td></tr>
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Since the CarolMarie moves slowly we were soon being followed and overcome by the fishing fleet heading out to sea, taking advantage of the slack tide.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Long approach to the bar looking at Ilwaco, Washington</td></tr>
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We weren't long out on the bar when we first started feeling the effects of the Pacific swells and the waves. Bill stood firm behind the helm, with Otto (autopilot) doing the actual steering. One by one we passed the red buoys leaving the bar behind.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our man Bill taking us out to open water</td></tr>
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Looking back to Cape Disappointment we were now in a new environment, the Northwest Pacific, and needed to deal with her swells and waves as we made way.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking back at Cape Disappointment</td></tr>
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About 15 miles out from the bar we set the stay sail, set the course south. A nice northerly breeze pushed us along.<br />
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Because of the seasick patches and the last two mornings of early starts the crew was tired. We had a quick meeting, about the watch schedule. Each man would do four hours through the night in a dog watch. First watch was Bill from 2000-0000, I was on second from 0000-0400 and Paul did the morning watch from 0400-0800. Because it was early in the day still I said I would take the watch until after dinner was finished.</div>
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Bill's first dinner was great, he'd settled into the galley well. Paul learned everything about the boat quickly and set in as first mate. After dinner I climbed into my bunk, slept until my watch came up. The first night at sea was easy, a gentle pitching and rolling but we were doing about 4.5 knots in the water and pushed along by a 0.5 knot current.</div>
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Through my watch, I could see sometime flying off our stern, back and forth in front of the light. I thought it must be a small bird, eating bugs attracted by the light. At 0400, Paul came up and I went down to bed again.</div>
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The next morning when I awoke the crew was up, and the smell of coffee filled the damp cabin. With seventy miles behind us, we began to find a rhythm at sea. The 9:30am radio check didn't work either. I phoned Jim and he reported he was able to hear my call, but I wasn't able to hear him.<br />
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Watches when on through the day, while the ship gently rolled and pitched in the swells. Bill found the espresso pot treating us to afternoon coffee and biscuits.</div>
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The stowaways kept us entertained until through the day. Bill cooked dinner again and we fell into our nightly watch pattern.<br />
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<br />S/V CarolMariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490433111232216606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495947419504948215.post-66548868594498410472017-06-09T13:32:00.003-07:002017-06-09T13:32:58.489-07:00Day 1 Going to San Diego <div style="text-align: center;">
"Dawn comes early on a boat... everyday day just about sun up"</div>
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May 27th, 2017<br />
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It was best said by the character Captain Ron from the movie of the same name, "Dawn comes early on a boat... everyday day just about sun up". We gathered at the boat at 5:30am just in time to see the dawn breaking over the Columbia River across the Hayden Bay.<br />
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Charing, Theresa, Bill, Paul and his son, and I gathered at the boat and stowed the last of the supplies away. Bill went to work packing the items need in the refrigerator locker so he knew where things were. Paul filled the boat's water tanks full, while I did last minute preparations on storing and uncovering the boat.<br />
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As 6:00am rolled around we took a quick crew photo and through off the dock lines.<br />
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As the sun continued to rise we motored off into the bay and onto the Columbia River. It was hard knowing that it was the last time I would motor my CarolMarie out of the bay and the Hayden Island where she'd spent all of her life.<br />
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When we hit the Columbia the river's current made itself known. The high amount of rain water from the long winter was all now running off the mountains creating a fast river current. I immediately called the Interstate 5 Bridge for a lift. The CarolMarie's highest point from the water line is 62 feet, with the small waves I always ask for at least 64 feet of clearance under the river bridges.<br />
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Isn't wasn't long before the bridge tender opened the bridge and we were rapidly push through the pillars by the churning green water.<br />
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As it closed, I watched and Charing rushed in the car to take a photo of us from the bridge. Unfortunately she was too late, she got stuck in traffic.<br />
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Next was the last swing for us of the Vancouver Railroad Bridge. As it swung open all I could think about was this was the last time through these two bridges. Bridges I had opened so many times for cruising and voyaging up and down the river on three different boats. Now it was time to say good by to them both.<br />
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With the motor at 1800 rpm (70% of maximum throttle) we did about 9.3 knots SOG (speed over ground) do to the heavy current. <br />
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We passes by Sauvie Island as the sun began to warm the air, and the realization of the journey's start sank into me. For many years working in technology I dreamed about the day when I would go down the Columbia, hit the Pacific and make that big left hand turn. Well today was the day I thought about so many times before. <br />
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I was sad to see the places I had spent my free time at pass by as we made way down river.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Scenic Sauvie Island</td></tr>
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Now that we had begun our journey I woke up the fourth crew member Otto, the Auto-Pilot. Otto works tirelessly without much complaining.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Otto mounted to the right of my foot</td></tr>
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Otto has a long remote control cable allowing us to sit anywhere on the boat and steer her. St. Helen's, Oregon and the end of Sauvie Island came quickly. It wasn't long before we were passing Rainer coming up to the Longview Bridge.<br />
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Once your at Rainer, bridging the river in front of you is the tall Longview Bridge. From our home in Oregon there are four bridges to pass to hit the ocean, and we were now approaching the third of four.<br />
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We traded watches through the day with four hours on and eight hours off. Below Paul is on watch, giving Bill insights into traffic on the Columbia River.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paul (yellow coat) and Bill (black cap) on watch.</td></tr>
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The next milestone to pass was Cape Horn on the Columbia. Cape Horn is a large ridge that hugs the river acting as a wind barrier for short distance, but later accelerates the wind as you near it's end. We have been at Cape Horn where the winds were 30 knots on the nose, and other times when it's been calm and still. As we approached Cape Horn the winds were 15-18 on the bow of the boat.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Approaching Cape Horn</td></tr>
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Cape Horn didn't bother Paul at all. Like an experienced cruising sailor he'd brought an entire brown paper bag full of paperback novels. Since he wasn't at watch he settled in, and enjoyed the Oregon summer sun.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Paul decked out in his summer attire.</td></tr>
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As we approached the open waters of Astoria Bay traffic began coming in from sea. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Traffic on the River</td></tr>
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The bay was extremely windy and choppy making the last five or so miles a rocking and rolling ride.<br />
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But finally the welcome site of the city on the hill, Astoria.<br />
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There was only one more bridge to go under and then we'd enter into the West Basin Moorage in Astoria.<br />
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We had called earlier in the day and reserved an end tie. We came in about 6:30pm a 12 hour ride from Hayden Bay.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CarolMarie tied up at the West Basin Marina<br /></td></tr>
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We walked up to a tavern called the Portway, which is famous for being haunted. <br />
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After a great meal we took showers, put on our seasick patches and turned in. Tomorrow we will cross the bar about 2:00pm as slack tide approaches.<br />
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Continuing on the saga to get south began early in the morning with Paul arriving with the modifications to the muffler. He had added a build up layer of fiberglass to increase the diameters of the intake and output of the new muffler. Early in the morning he ground down the excess in the driveway to fit the new muffler.<br />
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After grinding it down and a couple of cups of coffee it was off to the marina to install the new muffler. Down at the dock there waiting for us was Donnie on her boat. She immediately went to work and installed the new muffler. <br />
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First it took a bit to get in place, as it was a tight fit to begin with. Once she did fit the muffler clamping on the hoses was the next challenge.<br />
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With the muffler in place we said goodbyes to Donnie, and set off to Donaldson's for diesel. <br />
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The CarolMarie carries 140 gallons of diesel in two 70 gallon tanks, and we filled both of them at a cost of 2.25 a gallon. We returned to the docks at Hayden Bay Condos and added more supplies on board.<br />
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Bill Crowell was our volunteered cook for the voyage. Between Charing, his wife Theresa and himself the boat was soon fully stocked ready to leave the next day. It was just a matter of carting it all down to the boat from the houses.<br />
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Now we are ready to leave on the first leg to Astoria.S/V CarolMariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490433111232216606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495947419504948215.post-80363594437668002052017-05-26T05:57:00.001-07:002017-05-26T05:57:03.294-07:00Never Leave on FridayThere is a tradition among sailor for generations to never begin a voyage on Friday. I had always adhered to it until recently. This week I flew from our new home in Southern California back to Portland. A tradition of always photographing the carpet in the airport brings Portlanders good luck.<br />
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The CarolMarie is moving down to Southern California, and I have been getting her prepared through the week. The plan was to load up, provision and leave at 5:00am Friday the 26th of May from Portland, to Astoria the first leg of the journey. <br />
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Yesterday we ventured out to top off the diesel tanks, pump out the holding tank, and clean out the cob webs from the engine. No sooner did we leave the dock before a hissing sound arouse from the bilge, along with black soot. Our muffler had died, run dry because of a failure to turn on the intake hoses for the engine.<br />
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It's not easy here in Portland at 3:30pm to find a diesel mechanic willing to work. Luckily the closest dock we could tie to had a power boat with a live aboard mechanic. That was as far as my luck had extended because finding a muffler in Portland for a 30 year boat took a valiant effort by our friends Jim and Paul. Between them both they'd found three possible solutions.<br />
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The mechanic was named Donnie a small framed woman who fit well in the tight engine compartment on the CarolMarie. She agreed to swap the mufflers for free, but we offered a small bottle of Patron for compensation. The exchange was agreeable to both of us. Boat people are great after all at helping each other out.<br />
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Now it should be noted that you must have the right diameter intake and output hoses to match the muffler to be fitted. Upon reading the intake hose it read 2 inch inner diameter. Paul, found an exact match for the muffler needed at a local engine store. The muffler had been sitting on the self for 15 years and no one purchased it. Once we got it on the boat we found out why. The model SBM-20 mufflers (the model of the new one and the replacement Paul found) use a 2 inch intake and a 1.75 inch output. Someone had cut off the output rise on the muffler such that the 1.75 inch output hose wouldn't fit.<br />
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Well the SBM-20 has a history of burning up and I was kind of glad it didn't fit. They're made of rubberized plastic and not very durable.<br />
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The second model Paul found was two big physically to fit in the previous space.<br />
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Jim found a model that would fit in physically but the intake and outputs were too small for the existing hoses. So as I write the blog today, I have forced to push out the departure for one day while Paul modifies the new muffler to fit. Hopefully we will be able to fill up today, provision the boat and leave Saturday. <br />
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A couple of learnings here: 1. Boat people are kind and helpful. 2. remember to check the seacocks before starting the engine in the spring 3. Never push the luck of leaving on Friday's again.S/V CarolMariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490433111232216606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495947419504948215.post-55045261928058932922016-09-29T09:26:00.002-07:002016-09-29T09:26:23.295-07:00Up the creek with a newly varnished paddle.....September 24, 2016<br />
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I bought a CD9 Cascade Sailing Dinghy from a friend. It was built in 1980, so it had some wear and tear. I spent the weekend sanding down the teak dagger board and the teak rudder to varnish them again. I also took the time to strip down the oars with an orbital sander and 80 grit paper.<br />
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Once stripped down, I added a personal touch of a couple of Hawaii Kai decal's. It made the oars look like a branded well finished product.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">After decals added with Hawaiian Kai decals.</td></tr>
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The final step was coating the oars with 6 coats of varnish. They were both sanded with 220 grit in between coats. This sanding provided a smooth coating of varnish and a glassy look to them.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Final finish with 6 coats of varnish on the oars and the teak boards.</td></tr>
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Here's a look at the CD9 which is to be tackled next week.<br />
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<b>Thursday September 15, 2016</b><br />
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After spending too much time at work, and too little time on the boat I began to feel like Ishmael at the beginning of Moby Dick. It was high time I took to sea. Not having enough time for a trip to sea I took a long four day weekend to cruise around Sauvie Island. So as the sunset on Thursday evening, after a long day on working on the boat, I made plans with my trusty dog Kona to take off and sail about the watery bits for a while.<br />
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<b>Friday September 16, 2016</b><br />
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Last night I had pizza with friend Ray and Alicia from S/V Rowena, and we discussed an invitation we had from Chris and Kim on S/V Kaaluna. Early in the morning I pinged Kim on email basically inviting myself and K-dog to stay at their marina. By noon we'd loaded the boat and set sail for Big Island Marina (BIM). BIM is located just down river from Fred's Marina on the Multnomah Channel, but it's on Sauvie Island. I put our life jackets on and we set off for BIM.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">K-Dog with his life jacket on.</td></tr>
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BIM as it turn's out is a great place. There was a huge field for Kona to run in, and use the facilities. There is an awesome "man cave"/pirate hangout, and generous docks with power, showers, and welcoming neighbors. The only hard part was getting into the single slips which are 45 degrees orthogonal to the current. It means you basically pass the marina slip, then motor toward the slip you want while the entire time pointed at the slip just up river from you. To complain about that though is a bit like insisting your grapes are pealed. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kona's field - He loved running around it.</td></tr>
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Chris was kind enough to help us moor without hitting anything. Chris went back to work while I broke out the sand paper and continued to work on the bow sprit. Although I came in about 2:30, I had finished the bow about 5:00pm. Chris and I had a beer as we waited for the others to join us. S/V Rowena pulled in about 8:00pm right when it got dark. Kim cooked chicken and Alicia great sausages which we enjoyed with beer and wine, talking the evening away.<br />
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<b>Saturday September 17, 2016</b><br />
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Wet rain dampened the next leg of the trip to the Gilbert River Docks. We left BIM about 10:30am and arrived at the Gilbert about 12:30. <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">The Gilbert River Docks are basically in the middle of the Gilbert River with no access to shore. We met people from the yacht club there and had dinner. It rained and rained so much. Kona and I went to bed earlier that day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"> The next day we had a great breakfast with them. I brought out the FLIR attachment to the camera and took a couple of photos.</span></div>
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S/V CarolMariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11490433111232216606noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7495947419504948215.post-73610816825640438942016-08-16T11:45:00.002-07:002016-08-16T11:45:43.848-07:00Sailtice and New SpinnakerI went through our local chandlery called Columbia Marine Exchange (www.columbiamarineexchange.com). They had a brand new spinnaker made by Port Townsend Sails (www.porttownsendsails.com), which happened to exactly match one of the smartwatches I designed. In fact the smartwatch band was won on a bet with a leader at one of the watch companies, and it's a one off.<br />
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So the colors matched very nicely.<br />
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The sail came with a socket and bag. We laid it out and ensured it was all there, then bought it.<br />
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Sailistice gave us a chance to use it, and man it was fast.<br />
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On Friday April 15th 2016 the crew of S/V CarolMaire sailed to downtown Portland on the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. We left at 10:30am on Friday, after scrambling last minute to prepare the boat and provision for the weekend. By the time we got out on the Columbia from Hayden Bay many of the SIYC (www.siyc.org) boats were nearing or at the Vancouver Railroad Bridge.<br />
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One other boat S/V Somehow and ourselves needed to wait for the I-5 Bridge to lift. The river level had risen by 8 foot since we were last out. At this river level the passage under the mid-span was 62ft which is exactly what we need to go under. Any wave action would mean we'd impale the bottom of the bridge with our mast. So we asked for the opening for both boats.<br />
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Current was flowing at 2.3 knots so we passed quickly under the bridge. Approaching the Vancouver Railroad Bridge we waited about 15 minutes for it to open. With the current we were doing 9.0 knots with a speed in the water of 6.8. <br />
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Kona our dog took watch for a while. Although he couldn't steer he was very good at watching for other boats.</div>
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Charing did her part as well by keeping the cockpit clean.<br />
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Although Kona took his watch, he didn't really finish it and decided to nap on the deck rather then point at yet another fisherman.<br />
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By noon we'd made the turn to onto the Willamette River and were now counter to the current. Our speed dropped, and the number of fishing boats increased.<br />
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By 13:00 we were staring at the St. John's Bridge and opening the St. John's Railroad Bridge. More fishing boats and three different agencies' boat searching the fishing boats. We saw the local USCG, Multnomah County Sheriff's and one more we couldn't ID.<br />
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As we approached the Broadway Bridge the traffic on the VHF Channel 13 increased as every body told their clearance needed. We were the second tallest boat behind Somehow at 65ft. Before we knew it we went through the litany of bridges opening and closing until we'd arrived at Riverplace Marina.<br />
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We tied up on the outside of the city docks and paid our fee. Just afterwards teams of people began flowing down onto to docks to board the Dragon Boats.<br />
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We club had a dinner together on the docks and we turned in early to clean up the inside of the CarolMarie. It had been almost 5 months since we last been on a cruise and the cleaning was very much needed. The next morning several of the ladies of the SIYC when on a power walk around the city. Kona and I did some boat maintenance while they walked. Installing the new propane tank and changing fuses, etc were the highlights of our morning.<br />
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A few walks up and down the docks for bathroom breaks for Kona and he was worn out. People through the morning came up and down the docks asking about the boats, and photographing themselves with the boats in the background. Ray from S/V Rowena asked for me to put up our large pirate flag which I did. He put up a few flags on his boat too, and it wasn't long before flag wars began on every boat in the club, 10 boats in all. Each time a flag was added on one boat another one was added on another until a sea of colors filled the space from the water line to 60 ft in air.<br />
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Kona and I sat on the deck watching people watch us while Charing and others went to the farmers market.<br />
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He got the chair while I sat on a cushion. People would pass us and ask why is he on the chair and you're not. I respond that it was his boat, which would prompt him to look smugly at the questioner.<br />
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We had another great dinner that night on the docks, and more members came by land.<br />
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The next morning the we had breakfast on the dock and reversed the process heading back to Hayden Bay through all the 10 bridges lifting 7 of them on the way.<br />
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As we went under the St John's Bridge both Charing and I felt like the boat sinking. By the time we got out on the Columbia it was worse, I turned on the high bilge pump and nothing came out. I look down at the shaft and there was nothing but the bow continued to raise. Then for no reason it stopped raising and boat returned to a normal stance. When we docked I felt the front carpet in the cabin as we were cleaning and it was all wet. I couldn't figure out why.<br />
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I went to the sink and there was no water coming out. Just two days earlier I had filled both tanks, so this lack of water made no since. It was then I realized the water came from the vanity sink, where the pipe broke. Since the water pump was on it emptied the tanks into the high bilge until the tanks were dry. We were literally sinking form the inside.<br />
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I siphoned out the high bilge, and dried the carpets.<br />
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It was a great weekend in the end and wonderful to spend it in Portland's backyard.<br />
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