Great idea To Publish Our Personal Web Sites

To Todd and Phyllis we think it is a great idea to post our individual web site addresses. Ryen`s Quest is:

http://42vagbondryensquest.blogspot.com/

we r hear

Finally found this blog. It looks fun. We need more response though. I am sure we are all very busy messing about in our boats (V42s). Everyone should list their websites and show the progress made on our new homes.

Ours is a free website that really allows quite a bit of information, pictures and video. It is tripdiary.com

Our personal address for website is www.tripdiary.com/piratetnp/toucanshare

This will progress from our first day leaving Boise, Id. to Bradenton, Florida. The trip was half the fun, now we live onboard and deal with every day situations. (no lawn mowing though!)

We look forward to all of your journeys!

Cheers!

Todd & Phyllis Thomas
s/v Toucan Share (1989 V42)

Bow Thruster

Hi Folks,

Kris and Valaint M here - hope you are all well.

I'm just back from Seville in Spain. I have had a quickly worsening trouble with my HURTH HBW 220 gearbox as fitted to a Lehman 2200 4 cyl engine - in engaging forwards - well often she won't do it - much wailing and knashing of teeth as well as throwing emergency kedge anchors!! Big drama in the marinas - I feel I now need a bow thruster...

Anyone know why this happens? Reverse has a very positive poition, as does neutral but forward is totally loose with no positive idication of when it is in gear. I have changed all the linkages etc but thought I'd share the problem and see if you guys knew.

Also has anyone fitted a bow thruster in their boat - love to talk and share notes as being a single hander I am beginning to think I need one

Very best

Kris

Annapolis to Liverpool S/V ECLIPSE

Hi All

Since my last posting Mad Dogs & Englishmen I have sailed Eclipse back to Liverpool. The trip got off to a poor start when my Hydrualic steering fell apart in a force 10 about 400 miles out from Cape May, New Jersey unable to make it back to the USA with the emergrncy steering we made landfall at Shelbourne Harbour, Nova Scotia for repairs. The true seaworthyness of this design was put to the test as we lay ahull in winds that reached 67 knots and seas of 7 metres the motion was suprisingly comfortable given the conditions and very little water made it onto the deck.

We set off for the Azores after repairs the leg took about 16 days, on arrival we proceeded to leave our mark as is traditional in Horta and after a couple of days R & R set off for Jersey, Channel Islands this leg took about 10 days, the French customs boarded us off Brest and carried a thorough but good natured search. Finally i single handed from Jersey to Liverpool taking about 4 days to complete this final leg, really enjoyed being solo and found the boat was suprisingly easy to manage despite some fairly heavy going crossing the English Channel. I will complete a few trips to Ireland over the next couple of months and then haul out for a major refit over the next two years getting ready to live aboard and do some serious cruising from 2011 onwards.

Mick Fogarty

Vagabond 42 s/v STARDUST

I am John McCahan and with my wife, Sue Stockman, we are the former owners of the Vagagond 42 STARDUST, which was sold to Al & Jean and the boat will be known as Ryen's Quest in the future. We owned STARDUST for 15 years and made lots of changes to her over the years. We cruised her from Annapolis, Maryland to Trinidad, spending a total of 10 winters in the islands of the Bahamas and the Eastern Caribbean.

Teak and Holly Flooring....How do you

Now that I am into the polishing and cleaning of the interior of RYEN`S QUEST, I don`t know how I should properly clean the floor, which is teak and holly. There are some scratches in obvious areas such as the main salon, and another spot which I know needs to be sanded down and varnished. However, I don`t know how to, or what to use for cleaning the floors without making then too slippery to maneuvre around. Can any of the other blog members tell me what has worked for them? When I do a google search all I get is marketing outlets wanting to sell product. I`ll buy whatever works. Thanks in advance for your response. Jean

Hi From Ted Dalton

It was nice to hear from you and Thank you for the warm welcome. well let's see I'm 55 at this time but will be 56 in Oct. I'm Pretty well stove up from too many years of working with my back and muscles and without using my head but will be in better shape towards the end of the year after I have surgery, that's why i'm looking at the end of the year to find a boat and hopefully purchase early next year.

I have been studying boats for several month's and was about to choose a 46 foot morgan but then saw a reference to the 47 foot Vagabond and so I started doing research on them, they look like great boats, I was leaning to the Morgan because it is built here in America, being A Navy Veteran and seeing how some other countries treat American's I was pretty sceptecle about boats built in Taiwan until I got to doing research on them. I will close for now, I spent most of the day in San Fran at the V.A.Medical center and then a 150 mile journey to my home in the Mountains. Have a great day and "GOD" Bless.