Richard,

I'm not trying to be confrontational, but the question does arise about why
you ever left port with this owner and on this boat? So many safety concerns
leap out of your report.

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Charles T. Low
www.boatdocking.com

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"richard" wrote in message
oups.com...
...The weather was not so good ...
...no running water, etc. no nav lights etc. ...
...No sailing as his sails were a mess....
...the engine takes about 20 minutes to start.
There are four pages of instructions that have to be followed. Well at
1 in the morning, Dave forgot one. He did not open the exhaust valve
and when we started the engine, a loud explosion happened within 5
minutes. after we cleared out all the smoke, we discovered that we had
blown up the wet muffler...
...10 miles out, the fix does not hold and we are taking on
more water. (not so much that the pumps can't handle it) We are afraid
that the engine might over heat so we shut off the engine and try to
sail. Did I mention that the sails were in bad shape? ...
...it takes a lot of wind to move a 52
foot metal sailboat with an 8 ft draft, which we did not have. so we
roll and roll and Alice gets sick ...
..but the fog has now come in and it becomes very hard
indeed.
All in all, quite an experience.