Live aboard, August 2019 For more details and to contact me check my blog: https://nexraimundo.wixsite.com/mylifeinaseashell 🐚💦🐙🐳🦑🐟🦀🐠🐡🦈🌊

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The only purpose of life raft is to keep you afloat. It’s your training and the things that bring with you which keeps you alive.

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Worsening weather and rising swell at Fernando de Noronha demand an immediate departure. The beauty of paradise gives way to the unpredictable power of the ocean. #FernandoDeNoronha #SailingLife #OceanAdventures #WeatherChanges

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UPDATE 9/11/18 - just in from Boris Best from the upwind bouncing bam bam bam. All good here so far.Liebe grüße Tech talk: I had broken a lashing between the mast and the block for the mast rotation purchase. I left the mast rotation loose as upwind it aligns itself usually pretty nicely. This morning around 4 the boat was suddenly starting to act weirdly. I checked the wind angle display but i was upwind, although the boat was jumping over the waves and reaching at 2 knots. Heeled over a lot. I felt quickly that it was wrong with the wind instruments. I switched on the B system and find out that was broken. No surprise that the wind vane on the top of the mast was damaged after all the slamming. My heart beat rises imagining sailing the rest of the race with no instruments like in the TJV. It means a big penalty in performance. To figure out what was going on i swapped over some elements and could find that on my main system only the mast angle sensor had broken, possibly as a consequence of leaving the mast rotation open. I repaired the lashing, adjusted the mast to this upwind angle and gave the instruments a manuel input for mast angle instead of the sensor. That way my A system is now fully up and giving nice wind data again. A small issue but in the darkness and upwind - slamming is quite annoying. So happy now that i still have one functional wind vane at the top of the mast and can sail with autopilot following the wind angle… that helps a lot! To see more of Boris and his adventures check out the website at: www.borisherrmannracing.com or follow us on instagram or facebook at borisherrmannracing. We are still looking for more sponsors so if you are interested you can get in touch with us via the website.

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Part 2 Sea Water Found In Fuel Injectors We were preparing to leave for Koh Lipe on a friend's sailboat but the engine couldn't turn. The owner suspects water in the injectors so opened them up. He was right. Water shot out of the second injector. What do we do next? We found the reason but why was this modification made to this previously tip top healthy Yanmar Engine? Can we revive a seized engine that has sea water sitting inside fuel the injector chamber? #shorts #marineengineer #marineengineering #yanmar #sailorslife #sailboats #yachts

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