Day 11 Mustang position 33°19.36 S 163°51.44E
Mark_needler
Professional Skipper
Fri 18 Feb 2011 00:00
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1200
NZT We were having problems
with the Generator stopping when a little load put on it whilst running, we
changed the Raycon filter which looked dirty and that didn't work then we bleed
the system to check for air leaks and that didn't and eventually Chris Johnson
noticed that the return on the injector system had a hair line crack in it and
was loosing diesel so we have fixed that with epoxy 'Knead it' and we are
waiting to see if that solves that problem 1200
W e tacked over on to port
about an hour ago because the wind had shifted and port is the making board, VMG
is now 5.6knts and we approximately 36Â off course. Which was far better than
the other tack. We are using the engine on tick over to steady her
up. Well this trip is increasingly harder work, last
night @1915 I check the fuel level in the tanks we had a combined total of
around 240 litres. More than enough to charge the batteries and run the Nav gear
until we arrived in Whangarei. This morning after a night of running the engine
at 1000 to 1100 rpm we ran out of diesel!! so at this moment the ironic thing is
that we found and repaired the problem with the generator which was the
impellor, but we cant us it because of the lack of
diesel......Doh!! All that said we have the sails up and are slowly
sailing towards NZ against the easterly wind, we are all safe we will just be a
little later into
port. Regards
from Mark, Raj and
Chris Hey Margot & Rob...your missing the
adventure! Bob, if you know where the handle is to manually
operate the in mast furler it would be useful to find it, please let Chris know.
Thanks
Mark |