Hi Cindy. You grabbed my attention with the valve adjustment. Do you have a
Volvo engine? If so I would love to know more on the valve adjustment. The
engine on Lorac, a Baba 30, smokes badly and leaves a "dirty butt" in a
matter little time. I have thought about re-powering Lorac, but the engine
runs good and the hand cranking feature is priceless. Please tell me more!!!
Fair winds, blue water.
Rick Williams.
S/V Lorac; Baba 30 # 71
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cindy Ballreich" <cindy@ballreich.net>
To: "Baba Mailing List" <baba-l@ballreich.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 1:08 PM
Subject: [Baba-L] Back from the trip


> Hi Gang!
>
> We're back from eight days at Catalina. (Actually we got back Wednesday
> evening, but this is the first chance I've had to write anything.) I'd
> like to report great feats of sailing, but the focus of the trip turned
> out to mostly be staying warm and dry, and keeping the mud out of the
> boat.
>
> We were able to do some hiking when the weather was nice. We climbed the
> hill on the east side of Cat Harbor. This is a photo of the Isthmus from
> up there...
> http://www.ballreich.net/mandisa/baba-l/two_harbors_overview.jpg
>
> We had a couple of bug successes:
> The new head plumbing worked perfectly! (Thanks to Peggie for all of her
> advice!) Likewise, the new galley foot pumps (fresh and salt) proved to be
> very useful. Also, Rick's valve adjustment stopped the smoking that always
> left us with "dirty butt" every time we ran the engine for a few hours. (A
> new prop helped a lot, but never completely eliminated the problem.) The
> engine sure sounds nice now!
>
> He also had a few problems:
> The deck prism *IS* leaking again (as I suspected) and is on the short
> list to be rebedded as soon as things dry up a bit around here. The
> batteries seem to be getting pretty tired (although that could just
> reflect our spending so much more time aboard than usual).
>
> All in all, it was a fun trip, but I think we might wait for a more stable
> weather pattern before heading out in March again.
>
> Cindy
> s/v Mandisa
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