[PUP] Alanui/Paloma update

[Scott Bulger]

Hi John, great to hear from you.  Yes we had a great trip.  A bit of a
rolling anchorage in Shelter cove, had wind from the South.  Still all in
all a great trip by any measure.  We are in Ft. Bragg, leaving tomorrow for
Bodega Bay.  Got to get moorage in Mexico, talk soon, Scott

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John Marshall
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 2:25 PM
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Subject: Re: [PUP] Alanui/Paloma update

Great to hear from you, Scott. Knew you guys were pinned down for a  
bit. And going around Cape Mendocino under mill pond conditions...!   
That's a privilege.

John Marshall
N5520-Serpendipity (in Sequim Bay, WA)

On Sep 12, 2007, at 10:53 AM, Scott Bulger wrote:

> After a rock and roll all night in Shelter cove (hard to believe  
> with such
> calm seas?) Alanui and Paloma are bound for Ft. Bragg.  I've used  
> about 400
> gallons of fuel so far, in large part because we've been making  
> some long
> runs at high RPM's.  I'll try to get statistics when we are tied up  
> for more

> than a day or two.  The fuel leak has been resolved.  It seems that  
> someone
> in China cut about an inch off a pipe threaded nipple, I guess so the
> fitting would rest on the top of the supply manifold?  Libral  
> amounts of
> pipe dope finally let go and it turned into a weeping leak.  We  
> ended up
> throwing away the entire fitting and rebuilding it from scratch  
> with good
> parts from ACE hardware!
>
>
>
> The seas are stunningly calm, like a mill pond just past Cape  
> Mendecino.  I
> figure this is a 1 in a hundred day out here, as it looks like it  
> will be
> through the weekend.  With just a little luck we will be in SF Bay by
> Saturday.
>
>
>
> Great experience so far, have learned a lot that I will share  
> asap.  Hard to
> use the computer at sea, even in calm weather.
>
>
>
> Take care, Scott and Marian Bulger, Alanui, N40II, Seattle WA
>
> Currently 10 mi from Shelter cove bound for Ft. Bragg
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