#13 | Solo Sailing | Docking an 85ft Yacht
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- čas přidán 20. 01. 2023
- Docking is often a problem and never more so than when you are low on fuel, don’t know the harbour and you are solo!
Luckily this time it’s flat calm conditions- so you would think things would be easy, but then of course there is our ever-present stowaway, ’Murphy’ who is always standing by ready to put a wrench in the works when you least expect it…
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The climbing on the tires 😳
The video got interesting real quick 😆
@@ericinnis havent we all been there? but its interesting to see a professional do it and how he does it.
I think every time we go sailing, we’re all just attempting to use our superior judgement to avoid situations that require our superior skillset. But if push comes to shove… I don’t care who you are… :) you’re just going to have to scramble across truck tires at 5am, with a mooring rope in your teeth :)
Fantastic look into docking a boat of such dimensions. I'm amazed you let let the engine continue to run when it was acting strange and would like to know your thought process there. If my engine started to smoke oddly and I had docklines on, I would shut it down immediately, but you let it run. I'm sure you're correct but I'm amazed.
That's some Captain Ron caliber docking right there.
Doodles. LOL - Keep up the good work!
Thanks! Will do!
Great content and amazed how calmly you enter an unknown harbour solo on a maxi yacht in the dark after sailing 11 days and tie up to the wall solo with a questionable engine… how do you do it!?
Also - can you share the answer to what was wrong with the engine in the end?? My guess would have been questionable fuel at the bottom of the tank…
Water in the diesel. Most likely from condensation from the cold.
White smoke in this case is water steam.
Water at the bottom of the tank is getting sucked with the last diesel fumes.
No water-fuel separator working.....
sucking up the water in the bottom of the tank.
yeah I thought white smoke meant water in the diesel , maybe the black smoke was from poor combustion/ oil not burning correctly.
water in the engine/ fuel? maybe coolant.
You dropped your jacket on the air intake
Because everyone else seems to be a commenting that it's a fuel issue, I'll go with moisture in the air intake. Under load, it runs rich. At idle it makes steam? Just shooting in the dark here. . .
The smoke is un burnt fuel….blocked injector?
Seems to me you got something blocking your cooling water intake. Better check your impeller.
Maybe it's not an engine problem but fouled prop or bottom that put excessive load on the engine?
or you caught something around the propeller...
I just wonder why you are so calm and tie up the boat (in calm condition) whilst youre enging is showing that there is something totally wrong... First thing I would have done is tie the boat temporary and shut down the engine. White smoke shows overheating, obviously no cooling water ("very little water coming out of the back of the boat"). Intake blocked or impeller broken, I guess.
there is no option but to tie up the boat. what other course of action could there be? engine is not overheating, steam is due to air temperature being just above freezing. lack of water at the stern is connected to low engine rpm’s. the game is working out why the engine rpm’s have dipped ;)
blocked water intake?
Cool.. but right part of the boat...
as a fellow west country lad i like your humour and ability , ever need an assistant inbrittany i am your bitch!
Sounds a bit like atomised fuel, was engine still a bit cold?
I love that you are taking a swing at this ! it’s not atomized fuel… I’ll give you a hint… the smoke is black when the gear is engaged and white when it is not..;)
@@CSMtheMariner Ah, Oil seal maybe
Or blocked injector!
Closer mate. Audio levels are pushed too high now which is why it sounds crunchy. Or maybe the crunch is from your initial recording? Ideally, initial level on recording is perfect so that you can boost (or not) if needed without crunchy artifacts. Otherwise, you'd need to try a compressor and/or limiter to get your loudness rather than just boosting the volume.
Yup, I'm the guy commenting on a sailing video about the audio production, not the actual subject of sailing. WTF hahaha!
You're the guy making suggestions that are being listened to, and that combo might make better sailing videos for everyone else. You are 100% right- I increased the master volume just before rendering to avoid the low volume issue I had on the last video. Seems I went a little too far!
New music for sailing videos arrived today! Awesome!
Burning water in the bottom of the tank, I think billreid9021 has already mentioned this
Great input! IF it was a water issue, we might more particularly experience the engine unexpectedly coughing and stalling due to the engine’s secondary fuel filter becoming rapidly clogged by that icky tank bottom water. For everyone making a guess at this engine issue- focus on why the smoke is black with the engine engaged and white when it’s out of gear… ;)
@CSMtheMariner my next guess would be the Turbo stopped working, but I'm just guessing
10:14 here’s my two cents thrown into the comments algorithm…
is the stoichiometry varying? Could it be a sealed or partially sealed hatch? Aren’t offshore racing yachts almost air tight with closed/partially closed hatches? When out of gear there could be enough O2 for complete combustion. Under load/revs more O2 would be required to complete the combustion reaction, hence black smoke and bogged down revs.
In any case, everyone loves a cliff hanger!
Keep up the good work Chris, your ability to put your wisdom/knowledge across is exceptional and the content is unique on the CZcams platform.