Crews Letter #2008 13  Two People on One Boat

A Name for Everything 

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Good morning Crew,

SV Perception is 13.7m (45ft) long and 4.3m (13.75ft) wide.  There are two levels.  The deck, cockpit and cabin roof is one.  The cabin is the other.  She is boat, not room, shaped.  That works out to be 50 m2 (500 ft2).  As they say in the biz, that is close, up front and personal.

In the tradition of the sea, all of the sailing stuff has a name.  We use them.  The new stuff does not.  Hence, we gave them names.

 

Yannis – Yanmar, 4 stroke, 4 cylinder, diesel engine

Gipsy – Raytheon, Global Positioning System

Otto Helm – Raymarine, Auto Pilot.  Herr Helm is German.  As you would expect, he is both accurate and precise, a true engineer, oblivious to everything around him.

Dink – Euro Vinyl, 2.9m, inflatable dinghy.  Dink’s engine remains un-named.

Wind Lass – Lofran. Windy for short.

 

This year on our passage from Athens to Porto Rafti, the depth sounder stopped working before we got out of Zea Marina.  We consulted the manual, trouble shooting section.  It was not as bad as the IBM manuals.  You remember, “This error cannot occur.”  But nearly, “Possible cause, a loose connection.”  There is only one connection between the transducer and the electronic unit.  Fred jiggled it.  No improvement.

After a thorough analysis, we concluded he was not getting enough attention.  He is a Raytheon Depth Sounder.  Best solution, let’s give him a name. Phyl is leaning toward a technologically based name like “Sonny” for SONAR.  Fred is less respectful.  How about “Dip Stick”  or “Dep” for short.  Maybe he can grow up to be an actor or a pirate, or both.  Since the discussion started, he has worked fine.

 

We have two boat pets, Go and Went. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

These Gorillas are excellent crew.   Went & Go Gorilla perception boat pets

 

While this was being written, the Yamaha Malta, 2 hp, dinghy outboard choked on a piece of rubbish in the fuel jet.  No fuel, no go.  It took a professional to apply the 2-stroke Heimlich.  Knowing there is a fuel jet in there somewhere is not knowing how to get to it.  We are trying to cough up a name.

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Keep a Tight Luff,

Phyl and Fred

 

 

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