Perigee Sailboat

A day in the life I was chatting to a friend on Messenger a week or so back and she asked “So what do you do all day besides clean?” A very good question I thought. Granted there is a lot of cleaning involved but much else happens. Thanks Cath for the question. I thought I’d share a couple of examples. There is no typical day on board. It really depends what ‘mode’ we’re in. Boat project mode, on the dock mode, on anchor mode, on holiday (need more of this), provisioning, planning etc etc etc. One thing I hadn’t expected was just how social every day would be. Wherever we go we have friends, whether we’ve met them yet or not. We belong to the Amel community . Amel owners are generally very friendly and helpful. We all love our boats and our boats are very similar. There were not so many changes made in the 480 hulls that where made. We belong to the Ocean Crusing Club (OCC) and can recognize each other by the burgee (flag) with the flying fish which w

What kinds of things do we do when we stop-over in port for a service stop? Well, after any necessary repairs, we start with changing the fluids and filters for the Onan generator, the Yanmar engine and the Hurth ZF gearbox. We also replace the coolant, and inspect the impellers for the raw-water pumps. After attending to any other items of routine periodic maintenance that are due, or nearly so, we look to upgrades and improvements. Onan gets a makeover Here, we see the newly installed stop-cock (red handle, bottom), on the sea-water intake for the Onan generator, with a see-through strainer (center) to catch any blades that may break off the impeller. It's important to know if the impeller is damaged, and makes it much easier the retrieve any broken bits than if they are allowed to escape downstream in the cooling circuit. We want to try this On Sunday we join some other cruisers for a drive up the Atlantic coast of Martinique. The trade-wi