6 sfaturi pentru o croazieră și o navigație fără stres | Podcast video 045

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1. Super Bowl Sunday 🏈

2. The specific roles subject is more important than we originally considered.
   We learnt early that you can't share & discuss everything that comes up.
   Ultimately someone has to take charge.

3. Rule 1 on my boat, males must sit to use the toilet. If you make a mess you clear it up straight away.

4. If it's Gunna go wrong it's Gunna go wrong out there….😂 Great to see that backdrop again, the split screen just wasn't the same

5. I went to the Bahamas on a friend's boat, his dingy was a Walker Bay, and for 3 American sized adults, it was awful! Several times, we thought we would get swamped, and we turned around when going to the best snorkeling spot. I always liked the idea of a portabote, as it is so stowage. It seems people swear by them, but crusers never seem to keep them very long. So it seems a hard and expensive dingy is best.

6. So true we slowly discover the jobs and who does what. I do the electrics and Rene my husband does the engine but we assist each other during the jobs if required. Always one becomes the leader and the other a follower but never both at the same time. Cooking majority is done by Rene and me I fill in once a while. Sometimes the jobs that need doing depend on strength or size like who can't fit inside that cramped space. The beginning is always the most difficult and there were many heated arguments but coz we've been together 25 years, we resolve it fast also coz our space is so small we don't have a choice 😅

7. Good management is always, keep it simple.

8. Sicker than the proverbial dog but your talk lifted my spirits considerably. Thank you. If i recall correctly, it's not so much the anchor but the total weight of the chain fed out that does the real work, no? Good seeing you both – my Sunday is off to a good start. (Haven't had to correct one auto-correct or, as i call it, auto-miscorrect. 😊) Best regards.

9. You guys are my wife and I’s goal. Hoping to take our kids live aboard in 2 years. Hope we are still going strong like you 2.

10. We have been cruising for a few years, very good presentation, we discussed a lot of your points. You didn’t mention what type of dinghy you have? Always enjoy your comments, we are seniors and always looking for easier ways to do things. 👍👍

11. We moved our anchor yesterday after the anchorage cleared out some. We only had to move 50', maybe. We backed over the watermaker filters that were dangling in the water for cleaning. Piranha chewed one up!

12. Thanks for another great episode!

    We went through the process you described before upgrading our power last year, and it was very informative. We’re on a 39ft mono (Amel Sharki) with 800 ah Winner Titan Lead Carbon 2v x12 batteries, 650 watt solar panel and 2 x wind gennies. Our first season cruising with just 3 x 150 amp lead acid and 200 w of solar was bloody miserable, we had no idea what was drawing power on the boat and had to run the engine every day at anchor to charge the batteries. I hope any wannabe cruisers watching this episode heed your advice in this point 👍🏻

13. Anchor dragging and Dingy towing are the best stories

14. Excellent advice … I have watched two thirds of the way through and have paused while doing a chore but I wanted to be sure you leave a comment now

15. Dinghy is a really good point together with the size of your outboard. Bigger isnt always better for both outboard and dinghy because of weight.

16. Keep the old rule: KISS never fails! And that goes for everything in life. Thanks for sharing.

17. Nice points to think about

18. The crew management on my boat was drawn from Monty Python – "We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune!"

19. Thanks guys.. 😊

20. On the electric winch subject, there's a work around by using a portable electric hand drill with a winch coupling.

21. 3:00 I learned when getting my boating license, before any sail, before you cast off the lines or raise the anchor, you have to establish "the responsible skipper" (I learned it in German, the term here is "verantwortlicher Schiffsfuehrer"). This person bears the responsibility but also has the power to tell people what to do on the boat. (Like a captain, but in German, that's a protected word and entails much more – to be called a captain, you have to attend a nautical university and study for several years, then work as a ship's officer, etc…)

22. 10:14 you didn't mention the Calder Bible.. 😉

    "Boatowners Mechanical and Electrical Manual" by Nigel Calder

23. Diesel engines have the least that can go wrong. As long as it has uncontaminated fuel, constant cooling, oil, and the exhaust gas can get out, they will always run. The fuel is the big one. The worst I experienced with my diesel Truck was a time when the engine became ever more difficult to start. A nearby truck operator nailed it in a few minutes, the fuel line was rubbing on the chassis and had worn through the pipe to make a hole large enough to let air into the line.
    I have now finally finished building and will install this week end what I am calling a diesel engine fuel processor. It’s a Twin Raycor filter with a Marco 13 lph pump, and 5 tee valves. This does everything ever needed to do with fuel including priming lines to 2 fuel sources, power assisting fuel delivery, polishing fuel, transferring fuel, feeding engine flushing chemicals, and all with the essential fuel filtering and vacuum pressure monitoring. Worst case with boat engines is when the boat is being thrown around in heavy seas, stirring up all of the tank sediments, and then the engine is needed to operate with full power.

24. Electric toilets, manual override, I agree. My boat was originally Lavac toilets which were aweful (too small, too low, not enough space for low hanging fruit). I replaced them but kept the hand pumps in the line so I can both electric flush and manual flush. The advantage of the hand pump is that it fills the outflow pipe with air so you have less risk of salt clogging of the pipes. If I have power issues I can still use the toilet with the hand pump but have to add water manually. The other thing I discovered was that by running these toilets in reverse the material becomes thoroughly “blended”, so is fully de-aerated, and sinks very quickly. To manage other sanitary material I found a UK company with a product called the Fab Little Bag. I use these to manage toilet paper which I can’t put it into the harbour so use those bags. I had them installed at the office where I work for just another few months and the girls have all said they like using them. Thumbs up.
    I am almost the only one here who showers and toilets aboard every day, and am very fond of my Head. I keep the otherwise Wet Head Dry with a fan heater (off the hydraulic system) in winter, and of course open in Summer does the same thing. I use the afternoon head as a drying room which works well even in the dead of winter.

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