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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Tollycraft delivery Port Angeles to LA

Posted on 09/01/2024 by 56yachtcapt67

One of my crew, myself, and the owner delivered this really nice tollycraft from Port Angeles to LA area. Crew and I trained and bused up to the boat which took all day. We departed the next day early in the morning. That afternoon I noticed that the back stern wall was moving from the weight of the dinghy and the way that the davits were installed.

We set into neah bay in some calm water and tied up to one of my friends boat to inflate the dinghy and then restrain the davits with amsteel to the stern cleats. Took a little over a week to get to LA, had some really rough days in southern oregon where we only made about 100 miles over two days. We also caught two tuna on my hand lines.

In northern california we had one of the pedestal seats fail and threw me into a table. Fortunately the table was easy to move so it broke my fall. We set into Eureka for an evening of repairs. Then after leaving the next day we had a coolant register down by the galley that sprung a leak it drained the engine of coolant so we had to shut it down. Fortunately we could close the ball valves on the register and had enough coolant and onboard water to get us going again.

Once we arrived in LA gave the owner some training on getting in and out of his slip. This will be a great boat for getting to catalina.

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