I had a call on saturday morning about heading over to Nassau to do a charter on a sunreef 68.
So had them book a red eye flight so I could arrive at the boat on sunday afternoon. Once I arrived I had about 1 hr to check the fluids and get prepped to leave.
We headed to Stanley Cay to pick up the guests as them had joined there friends on another boat. The sunreef 68 is fairly boxy, but is one of the only boats that has three sides of doors that open up the walls.
I spent three weeks on this boat with two weeks of charters. We had issues with the generators, water maker, electric winch, and some of the rigging on the main sail. Was able to coble parts together for the generator, and taught the 1st mate about turning off the pressure of the water maker before turning on the power.
Flew my drone alot, and got some great footage of the boat.
Delivered this sunseeker from LA to Hawaii. She only had a 500 gallon internal fuel tank, so we put three 500 gallon fuel bags in the dinghy garage, and the VIP and guest staterooms. As well we put 7 55 gallon barrel’s on the fly bridge and setup fuel transportation system from the fuel bags and barrels to fill the internal fuel tank.
It took 22 days for us to get to hawaii. We were concerned about the fuel bags as they stared leaking. We transferred fuel from the aft fuel bag to the main tank, barrels and forward fuel bags to mitigate losing fuel.
So we spent 3 days in west wind and seas at idle, we did make about 100 miles per day though and eventually the easterly trade winds filled in and we were doing 8 knots towards hawaii.
