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Forum: Navigation 27-04-2016, 17:55
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Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

I have standard 'three legged' lazy jacks with the frd - working- lazy jack turned up on a small cleat maybe 2 feet back from the gooseneck. Hoisting sail I put the wind very fine on the port bow and...
Forum: Navigation 27-04-2016, 04:34
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

Bet you hung a left too soon and sailed into the 'Death Zone'... bin there ... dun that :)
Forum: Navigation 27-04-2016, 03:59
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

And also .. new is good.

I've just been advised that my autopilot drive ( Lewmar/Whitlock Mamba drive ) is not only toast ( I knew that) but at 30 year old is seriously burnt unrepairable toast.
...
Forum: Navigation 27-04-2016, 03:54
Replies: 276
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Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

About now I reckon...... sounds like too much all at once.

Is OK when they come along one at a time......
Forum: Navigation 27-04-2016, 03:11
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

Hmmm... how many hours on the engine?

'It leaks oil, in more places than I know where to fix
It drips raw water
The water pump needs replacement
It needs four new engine mounts
A new exhaust...
Forum: Navigation 25-04-2016, 02:11
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

Two options...
sail up to Hastings ( my choice as it is within the world as we know it) or Yaringa ... and get it sorted ie buy new stuff...

Or sail home single handed .... do-able... I used to...
Forum: Navigation 21-04-2016, 02:03
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

Its OK to leave at slack water ( start of ) ebb as long as you are abeam of Lonsdale when the ebb gets away..... and stay clear of the nasty bit I mentioned some months ago.
Forum: Navigation 21-04-2016, 00:46
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

Correcto, however...

Flood tides are harmless.. you just need the ooomph to get out over them...

If you go out 4 fingers west you could aim to be abeam of lonsdale just after the morning...
Forum: Navigation 17-04-2016, 02:11
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

I have heard of ships leaving Liverpool in gales and landing their pilots in Las Palmas.. :)
Forum: Navigation 17-04-2016, 02:09
Replies: 276
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Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

Don't know about that but she was overwhelmed on her way back in.... just disappeared from radio and radar.
Wreck turned up the next day up by the Popes Eye somewhere... just the bow showing above...
Forum: Navigation 17-04-2016, 01:14
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

Ships come and go at all states of the tide.

About once every 10 years or so weather may be bad enough for the pilot boat to stop working. Ships may still come ( if the master has a pilotage...
Forum: Navigation 14-04-2016, 15:02
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

Poor way of expressing it.... slack water at the start of the flood is what I think you are trying to say.

In which case 'no'.

If it was me I would push up against the last of the flood with...
Forum: Navigation 14-04-2016, 03:02
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

Be thankful the twin 4.5's are long gone :) Them is the ones I was speaking of when I mentioned the Darings... Vendetta etc . What Is A Gun Plot? | GUN PLOT...
Forum: Navigation 14-04-2016, 01:12
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

That close in!!?? They were probably just throwing rocks at you....
Forum: Navigation 13-04-2016, 22:12
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

Um... I think Rustic was off West Head.... Swan Island is inside Port Philip Heads.

Rustic should be inside as well by now....
Forum: Navigation 13-04-2016, 21:26
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

R374 covers an exclusion zone on Swan Island. Thats where the SAS play with their chums.
Forum: Navigation 13-04-2016, 20:03
Replies: 276
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Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

:biggrin: Be thankful they no longer use the 4" same same Daring class.. :biggrin:
Forum: Navigation 13-04-2016, 03:13
Replies: 276
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Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

I find simple watch keeping hard for the first week or so..... after that you slip into a routine... sleep deprivation becomes the norm... but us old pharts don't need much sleep anyway.

That is...
Forum: Navigation 13-04-2016, 01:40
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

I'm sure I've mentioned it before in this thread.... you can enter any old time during the flood ... not just at slack water at the start of the flood.
Forum: Navigation 12-04-2016, 22:34
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

I'm back...

Slack water is at 0710...Max ebb and *low water* at Lonsdale 1000 and 1036 respectively.

Nothing really bad can happen if approaching from outside during the ebb... apart from...
Forum: Navigation 12-04-2016, 18:16
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

Memory not failing me... water level falling at Williamstown from 0725 to 1412 means water going out through entrance....water rising from 1412 to 2040 ...water coming in

Lookee here Tide...
Forum: Navigation 12-04-2016, 18:00
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

That looks to me like the 0710 slack water is the start of the ebb. You would be better waiting west of the leads until 1409 and catching the start of the flood.

0300 ish is the busy time at the...
Forum: Navigation 25-08-2015, 16:18
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

20 miles? You should be able to read your weather better than that.

As said above.... short runs single handed to places like Port Sorrel and Devonport... softly softly catchee monkey... until you...
Forum: Navigation 24-08-2015, 23:49
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

Bad luck but as said discretion is the better part of valour


I'd go directo from Low Head to Walkerville in Waratah Bay ... about 130 or so miles... an easy run if you have a commanding...
Forum: Navigation 22-08-2015, 13:42
Replies: 276
Views: 37,422
Posted By El Pinguino
Re: Sailing The Rip into Port Philip Victoria

Yep ... Paso O'Ryan, Ackwalnisan ...needed an early slack water before the tide started going my way to get enough daylight on the far side to get into the next anchorage.
Tides are fun... or...
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