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Patrick Twohig
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December 31, 2018 - 12:43 pm
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Saw this on Facebook.  Happened in Cabo San Lucas

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Boat's name is Wanderer.  I'm not sure if this is somebody here or not.

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December 31, 2018 - 1:46 pm
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Ouch!

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Looks like a DE32 maybe. Just looks a little small for a DE38. Doesn't look like any damage from that angle. just tilt her over at next high tide on to her side and work her out into deeper water maybe. Only needs about 2.5 to 3 ft of water if you can get her on her side and the keel up. Have to have a steady boat pulling on the mast to do it. Would be scary 🙂 I have done that sitting on the keel in the ICW and it was pretty easy but I still had 4+ feet of water under me. Still scared me to have some idiot in a power boat with my spinnaker halyard tied to a line that was tied to their transom and trust him to just do a steady pull and not jerk it and break something. I normally if in that situation will  have someone I trust on valkyr and will transfer over to boat pulling and either get them to let me run it or will sit there and tell them exactly what to do and how not hard to do it. 🙂 I don't even trust Boat US or Seatow. They are a bunch of maniacs sometimes and don't really know what to do with a sailboat.

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Have to agree with your method and views of getting back into deep water.  I  do think that this is a 38.  The three small ports forward of the the two large, leaky ,windows is a giveaway.

 

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Jim

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You know  I have never had a leaky port on valkyr and those big windows have never given us an issue other than they are hazy with the old lexan/acrylic. Would have loved to replace the big windows with something clearer so we could see out better but with them not leaking they were way down the project list.. The midships butterfly hatch has had to be resealed a few times around the glass to stop small leaks.

 

Have had an issue once or twice with a port left open and splashes or rain. We fixed the rain issue by putting brows over all the ports to shed water from above and keep it from going in the ports. Now it has to be pouring hard and bouncing off the side decks and into the ports to get water through them. Those were some of the best buys we ever made along with composting head and lots of fans for major comfort/usage upgrades. Before we had to shut ports period if it was raining at all as the cabin sides lean in at the top and any water at all came in. Now up till a driving rain we can leave them open. Have spent many a rainy day in v-berth curled up with book beside the open port reading and listening to rain patter on deck and smelling that fresh rain scent. Before it was very hot and stuffy in boat when closed up for rain.

Actually with hard dodger over main hatch, the brows over the ports and some canvas wind  catchers/rain covers over the for hatch and midships hatch we would often sit at dock or anchor with the boat wide open and it raining. With six big carframo fans, two in the vberth and 3 in salon and one in galley we could create any ventilation plan we wanted. Oh and the two forward dorades we removed the dorade cowls and put nicro? day night fans on the dorade boxes. We vented the composting head into the one over the head and the other was in the vberth. Probably why we have never had issues with mold or mildew even when off the boat for years.

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