Wednesday 18 Nov, HHN, last day of winterization (day 49):
Temperature is sitting at freezing point this morning, and I can tell you it was not much higher inside the boat! So, I’m happy to head off to do the laundry and thaw out. I’m even tempted to climb into one of the tumble driers for a few minutes! Wednesday is seniors day at the launderette (sorry: laundromat) and I’m one of them. The crowd are mostly black elderly women, and I am thoroughly entertained by their banter. One of them claims she is losing her marbles. And when she keeps accidentally putting items of clothing into my tumble drier, I think she might be right. The third time she did it, she laughed so hard I think she might have wet herself! If you want to meet real locals in Maryland, the lauromat is the place!
My day is working through an intense set of lists, all about leaving the boat and making sure I’ve not forgotten anything. I finally get all the antifreeze through the systems when Oana reminds me about the bilge pumps – they need it through them too. The list seems never ending and I’m missing not having Oana around. She is the chief packer between the 2 of us.
After finishing with the flushing, I move all the pieces from “Trophy Corner” into the engine room, to have them safely out of the way. And all the tubs of smaller parts stacked in the galley. The decks are now clear, but it’s getting pretty crowded inside now.
Finally, 1 hour before leaving I feel I might just about get everything done, when I remember I haven’t had a shower yet! Panic! And even more panic when I realise I now have no bike to cycle to the showers. I’ve cleaned and packed that away too. So it’s a jog to the showers and the quickest shower I’ve ever had.
Ray turns up bang on 7pm (thanks Ray for taking me to the airport) and before I know it, I am saying goodbye to Cloudy Bay again. It’s been such a rushed day, I haven’t even had time to be sentimental about departure. I’m more focused on getting back to Oana.
At Dulles airport, it’s like a ghost town and I’m checked in and through security in record time. I really like this aspect of travel during Covid!
The daily blogs will end here. But I have taken several projects home with me and I’ll summarize progress over the winter every now and then. Till then, hope you’ve enjoyed the winterizing of Cloudy Bay over these last 7 weeks. We’ll be back in spring 2021!
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Good timing to leave. 28f this morning. Brrr
Thanks for entertaining us with extremely useful information. We’re looking forward the publication of the manual on furlers disassembly …and following movie! 😉 I wish you an happy and healthy return home.
Nilo, the video will be coming out shortly! At least, the “dismantling the rig” video. You will have to wait till spring for the “can he put it all back together again?” video 🙂
I’m 100% confident I’ll enjoy both of them at the right time! Have a nice and safe winter.
Bon Voyage and Happy Holidays!
Well back home Glen, thanks for sharing those 49 days of hard work, no doubt the captions on the photos were an excellent idea.
Kind regards.
Yes, it made a bot more work, but definitely a picture (well described) tells a thousand words.
It has been fascinating to read your blogs over the last 7 weeks. Have a decent break and I look forward to reading more on your return. Safe travels
Thanks James, will be back in the spring to put Humpty back together again.
Fairwell Glen. Enjoy your winter break with the Admiral and take care!
We will miss you guys, so return fast and take us with you to Panama and further to the Pacific and all the beautifull isles and anchorages.
All the best, Antonio
Yes, we will be back in the spring …. hopefully
Please let us know that you arrived safe and sound when you return home. All our best to Oana and you. Thanks to both of you for sharing your journey with all of us.
Yes, all back home safe and sound. Will add some more to the blogs (or at least the the FB page) as I make progress on getting parts and visiting machine shops here.
Glen, thanks for all the great videos and blogs! I noticed you have an Ultramarine anchor. I’m getting ready to purchase one for my Moody 54 (2002) which is similar in size to yours. We plan to cruise Bahamas next season (as soon as I sail her from Chicago to her new home in Chesapeake bay – loved your New England series!). I was wondering what size you have and what you would recommend – our Moody is 50,000+lbs.
LOL laughed so hard Clothes in the dryer comment. x
I sail in the Montreal Canada area and I am suffering from withdrawal symptoms during the winter storage months. Your videos help a lot with that, but now I find myself suffering from lack of new videos from you guys withdrawal 😛 Thanks a bunch for the amazing videos. When do you plan on setting sail again?
Cheers
Have enjoyed your videos immensely – thank you! Curious about your new sails – what % is your genoa? 140%
Hello Glen & Oana….
Wishing you Both a a belated Happy New Covid Free New Year for 2021….! Been catching up with another aviator pal’s channel and 3 days ago he posted a video of his recent flight flying a TBM-850 from Opa-Locka Airport, Miami to Nassau, in The Bahamas. Fast-forward to 23:25 for the Nassau bit. Great clip of the almost business as usual activity at the Grand Hyatt Baha Mar….Why are we in Lock-down..!?
Enjoy the ride – TBM850 Flight from Miami to Nassau! – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYIVMVnz2E8
How’s it been going with you both….this winter…Brrrrr..!?
All the best to you both,
Chris
Best maintenance vidéo ive Seen 🙂 well done Glen!! I’m now going to dismast my rig and do about the same 🙂
High five from Marseille 🙂
Glen its March 2021 and I’m so glad to have new vlogs from Cloudy Bay. I am prepping my own S&S36 up the road in Galesville, MD. My skills are very modest compared to yours but you inspire me to learn and your mantra “just get started” echoes often in my head. I don’t know how I would have survived Covid without YouTube and your content is a treasure every time. I like the pace and the organization of your episodes and your camera work/drone work is excellent. While you are away do let me know if you ever need anything done in Deale/HHN. I make monthly pilgrimages there to drop off gold bullion at MTS, West Marine, Shiver Me Timbers or Aric’s machine shop. All good resources when I can squeeze onto their calendars. Stay Safe!
I have just watched the mast overhaul, amazing work. Thank you .
Hi Glen, Are you running 2 autopilots in parallel or is one just a backup unit? I saw a HR 62 (Yaghan) that due to the boat size were running 2 Raymarine drive units on the quadrant and my real question is how this all is wired and driven, somehow the linear drive units have to talk to each other, I doubt you can just drive 2 from the same computer, unless it is built for it with doubled up power diods. And then I think I caught a glimpse of your setup in one of the maintenance videos (really nice videos) and you also had 2 linear drive units (or am I mistaken) anyway, if you know how this is hooked up and communicating it would be interesting to hear about it. Can´t find anything on this on the web.
Anders,
Sorry for the late reply.
I do have 2 AP systems (Raymarine computers) but they both run the same linear drives. And yes, one AP computer can handle 2 x linear drives at the same time. One drive is simply wired in reverse, so when one pushes the other pulls. It’s the way all big Hallberg Rassy’s are set up. The boat can steer just fine using only one linear drive, but having 2 make for back back up and also makes ofr less strain per linear drive.
The other way that HR boats often have AP back up is to have the linear drives on one computer and a Lewmar Mamba drive off the 2nd computer.
Hoope that helps to clarify.
Rgds
Glen
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