so this course was more relaxing than the yachtmaster but not that relaxing. we had one day of classroom and then we where off into the fire fighting fun. of course things did not go supper smoothly. we had a lot of rain making lighting the fire difficult. then on the final run as we where ready to enter the building to put out the fire the pump failed so we had no water pressure. we...
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this morning we started or stcw (a qual you need to work as professional crew on a ship) but before we got to that i had to finish the geneset fix. fortunately last night after happy hour while aimee was working on her day job i rebuilt the water pump. i must say i am getting pretty good at this, minimal injuries and i was able to pull the shaft and replace both seals. the reinstallation seemed...
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or summer vacation part 3… well back in antigua there was no rest for the weary, i was hoping to get some uninterrupted study time but alas boat projects to get palapa “charter ready” seemed to take up all my time. the day before my course was due to start the genset died and when i opened it up i found salt all over the place from a leaking raw water pump. so much for my...
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so last day of the trial, after drinking the champagne aimee had got us at trader joes i had two choices: (1) fly back to Vancouver or (2) go straight back to palapa in Antigua. i was feeling pretty low after the trial and really wanted to be back in paradise but aimee had a wedding going in Vancouver the next week she wanted to show me off at and my last trip had been so amazing i decided to...
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or why i will be turning in my US passport … so as many of you may remember or not back in 2007 we sold geotrax to 3si and a year later i set out on my trip around the world. we sold the company because we discovered our business partners had stollen 800k out of the company bank account and the only way to recover it was to sell the company and take the money out of their proceeds. we sold...
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