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  • We like aluminum

    We like aluminum

    My neighbor, a french guy, also has an aluminum boat with an aluminum dinghy. Except he did an Optimist instead of a RIB like I did. Cute!

  • New friends in Piriapolis

    New friends in Piriapolis

    So I quickly got myself a small “fan-club” in Punta del Este, a team of young Uruguayan sailors who came with me on a very pleasant and speedy sail from Punta del Este to Piriapolis. Piriapolis is a typical summer town, and it’s winter now here, so I was expecting it to be very empty.…

  • Stormy night in Punta del Este

    Stormy night in Punta del Este

    After a very nice 8 day journey we have arrived in Punta del Este. We had great sailing most of the time, maybe a little too much motoring, but overall a very nice passage. I was quite satisfied to be in a marina tonight, as the winds picked up to blow a steady 40 knots…

  • Off to Uruguay with plenty of Guacamole

    Off to Uruguay with plenty of Guacamole

      Ok, finally it’s time to sail again. Feels good. The sails are back on. Food supplies full. I illustrate this with a picture of a Brazilian avocado. Very large, very good. We made a big bowl of Guacamole for the trip. Fruits and vegetables are so much more fun to shop and eat here,…

  • The product disappointments continue

    The product disappointments continue

    I think I have enough trouble dealing with my own mistakes. But on top of that I have to deal with a multitude of standard products that fail. Here’s another one to add to the list: Today I was investigating a leak in one of the manual bilge pumps. It is less than two years…

  • Disgusting seafood.

    Disgusting seafood.

    The Journeyman has been in the water almost two years now, and the antifouling paint is dying. I dived for a few hours to clean the hull, but I was forced to end early by an invasion of microscopic shrimp. I guess their way of protesting me destroying their habitat was to crawl all over…

  • Muddy waters

    Muddy waters

      Today I was making a small excursion with some friends who came to visit. Since I had been anchored for quite a long time in this muddy bay, I had a notion that there might be a lot of mud on the anchor. So before my friends arrived I went into town and bought…

  • Fridge tune-up time.

    Fridge tune-up time.

    Today was a day dedicated to the fridge and freezer. I had noticed that the fridge especially had very long run times, and was causing a bit of battery drain. When I had a look at it, the piping outside the actual fridge was covered in ice. This of course seemed a bit wrong, I…

  • Dear Johnson Pumps, is it supposed to look like this?

    Dear Johnson Pumps, is it supposed to look like this?

    Well now I know why the transom compartment bilge pump stopped working ;-) I guess the pump was not as watertight as it was supposed to be. Oh well…

  • Nice morning adventure

    This morning was nice and calm. Cloudy, so not as hot as usual. I was working in the transom compartment, trying to find out why the automatic bilge pump had stopped working, when all of a sudden it was not so calm anymore. An impressive thunderstorm, with gusts of wind up to 45 knots (23…