On our way back home today we passed a couple of interesting boats. One looked vaguely familiar...
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Friday, January 27, 2012
Rendezvous
Yesterday we headed 26km to Little Card Sound for a rendezvous with good friends Dick and Anne, living aboard their newly purchased 380 Maxim catamaran, the S/V Nati. Our last time seeing them was in August while we were cruising the Thousand Islands. The Nati is quite a boat! A bit of a change for them after owning an F-33 trimaran, custom built for them in Australia 7 years ago. The design of their F-33 was the same as our last trimaran, an F-31. We had lunch and the best Conch fritters stateside at Alabama Jacks. After a peaceful night on the hook, we are underway, headed "home".
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Ready to go...
The guy on the cute little boat was the first with the correct answer to my quiz. We get back to the marina yesterday and he gives me the lame excuse that his tap and die set is 1400 miles north in Indiana... So, $50 and 3 hours later this morning, Buddy is good to go. We hadn't run on one engine for any distance before yesterday so I was interested to see how it worked. At 3000 rpm we ran at a little over 6 knots, 3500 rpm about 7.5. With both engines at 2000 rpm we run at 6 knots, fuel economy running both at 2000 is the same as running one at 3000. We had a Proline 23 walk around a few years back with a 15 kicker that would do 6 knots wide open in flat seas. I'm pleased with Buddy's performance with the twin 50 high thrusts, and am glad we had two...
On the way back to Plantation Key we passed a marker that has obviously seen better days...
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