Launching 2019

2018 was very warm year for the Netherlands. I did not sailed a lot last year and the warm waters in Scheveningen made Sasha literally alive.

Those things were moving and they were looking at me :)

I had everything cleaned proffesionally.

The marine service in Scheveningen Van Veen, suggested to change the antifouling. This year I use this antifouling.

...and the beautiful Sasha is ready for action :)

First GoPro trial :)

I got a GoPro camera and this is my first GoPro video tryout with Sasha :)

 

Sailing in lonesome October afternoon.

I did not have much time to update my blog this year due to personal reasons. But long story short Sasha is still in Scheveningen, I redid the wood varnish, cleaned her bottom few weeks ago, did not have time to sail much in the summer.

I just love the looks of her bottom :) Isnt she great :)

After the cleaning she was like a rocket.

Lovely 4 Bft wind Sunday afternoon in the North Sea :)

Tachometer for Yanmar 1GM10

I was thinking about tachometer for Yanmar 1GM10. The original option of Yanmar were way too expensive, at least the stuff which I found in the net were above 200 euro. The cheap options like normal tachometers which one could find in the shops have to be connected to the alternator. The Yanmar 1GM10 does not have such an output and an extra cable have to be soldered. The Tiny-Tach is a great alternative. Simply you attach the transducer to the fuel pipe inlet, and it is basically plug and play. I went for their device for diesel engines Diesel Tiny-Tach. Looks good, and indeed it is tiny :) I ordered it directly from the US shop it arrived in the Netherlands less than a week after the order was placed. The price including the delivery was about 95 euro.

Uses a transducer on the fuel line which must be the correct size for the line-6mm, 7mm, 1/4.

it is tiny indeed :)

Zomeravond 2017

Great video made from a colleague R. Prins of the start of the clubs summer regata yesterday :) Sasha is the small blue boat at the end of the video in the middle of the screen :)

Some more May sailing :)

May turned out to be great :) Very good friends of mine from Bulgaria visited me, and we made their sea baptism in North Sea :)

It was their first ever sailing, apparently they are natural talents :)

Yesterday I also started the clubs regata season. Sasha did extremely good, should work on my start thought :)

Zomeravondwedstriden

The usual track looks like that:

It was beautiful evening :)

Some nice May sailing...

Its getting warm in the Netherlands. This year till the end of April the temperatures were bellow 12 C. Its getting better slowly. Some nice sailing video from the last Sunday :) Winds were about 20-25 knots apparent wind :)