Finished up some nauticed.org courses :)

Posted on 11/29/2024 by 56yachtcapt67
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Just spent all day completing these nauticed.org courses. I really enjoy taking classes and advancing my skills. Go to nauticed.org and get your two free lessons.

Maneuvering Under Power Course

Skipper Large Powerboat Course

SLC-Powerboats Course

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survey and sea-trial, 1982 defever 49

Posted on 11/07/2024 by 56yachtcapt67

Drove up to Olympia Yacht Club to do a sea-trial and survey of a 1982 Defever 49 power yacht.

Present was the buyers, surveyor, and the broker.

This was mostly uneventful and she is a good boat, with just a few minor things that need to be done.

After the boat was launched we started heading back to the boat house.

Buyer came to me and said we have an issue, he showed me a video of a bunch of water coming in from the drip-less stuffing box.

Every one thought we needed to back to the travel lift to address it.  I made the executive call to tie up at the fuel dock in front of us and then go down and check it myself.

Not sure why the seal to the collar got compromised, but asked for some allen wrenches and proceeded to move the collar so that it pressed a little harder on the bellow bag.  This addressed the issue and moved on to getting the boat back in the boat house.

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Thermodyne delivery Port Angeles to PDX

Posted on 10/02/2024 by 56yachtcapt67

The owners approached me about bringing this 1970 power boat down from Port Townsend to PDX. After seeing the survey I was concerned about weather situations. We had a weather window to get down the coast.

We tried to leave port townsend but only made it to port angeles as the one of the engines was over heating, then the starboard gear box went out.

After having a mechanic fix the boat, we tried again. It was quite calm and we made good time while also having really good fuel economy.

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