Recently agreed to assist in the delivery of a 120-foot workboat from Biloxi, MS, to Lagos, Nigeria. The crew will consist of Captain Ray O'Quinn, his cousin who also holds a Captain's license, an Engineer, and myself. We plan to leave shortly after Thanksgiving. The boat has large tanks used for hauling water to oil rigs. Filling these with 20,000 gallons of diesel fuel will be necessary to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Even so, we will stop in Barbados and top off. The trip should take 30 to 35 days and the roughest section should be past Barbados for a few hundred miles, until we enter the intertropical convergence zone close to the equator.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Trip to Nigeria
Recently agreed to assist in the delivery of a 120-foot workboat from Biloxi, MS, to Lagos, Nigeria. The crew will consist of Captain Ray O'Quinn, his cousin who also holds a Captain's license, an Engineer, and myself. We plan to leave shortly after Thanksgiving. The boat has large tanks used for hauling water to oil rigs. Filling these with 20,000 gallons of diesel fuel will be necessary to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Even so, we will stop in Barbados and top off. The trip should take 30 to 35 days and the roughest section should be past Barbados for a few hundred miles, until we enter the intertropical convergence zone close to the equator.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Cleaning the Hull
Jim Boernge and I dove in the muddy marina waters today to clean our boat bottoms. We were afraid that a summer's worth of marine growth and barnacles would be quite bad. I was particularly worried about barnacle fouling on my propeller. Fortunately, the marine growth was easy to remove and no barnacles were found. But the water was so foul that visibility was only 5 inches using a strong flashlight. And a cold front had just moved through, so the weather was quite cool and the wind was blowing about 20 knots.
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