The Voyage of the Mighty Tenho: prop fixed!

Monday, September 17, 2012

prop fixed!

Tenho came out of the water this morning at 9am, and we had one hour on the slings while the travel lift crew went to get coffee. Strike Team Alpha all the way...within one hour John had the new propeller blades on while the kids changed all the zincs (the sacrificial metal rings that are desgined to corrode from electrolysis before the propeller, thus saving your prop). Tomorrow we're on our way again! Many thanks to the great support from the propeller guys at Flexofold in Denmark.

Funny story of the day...I lost my balance (note to self, no more G&Ts before noon) and dropped two loads of freshly washed laundry into the water next to the boat. Many thanks to kids & hubby who quickly grabbed boat hooks, fishing lines and net and fished almost everything out of the water as it sank. Only loss was a towel and my favorite pair of lime green and white polka dot undies. I can only imagine the surprise someone will get someday when they float up on a mooring line.

Tenho coming out of water

(note only 2 prop blades)

Tenho pit crew

Fishing for...uh...laundry?

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John, Tessa, Hugo (12) and Maggie (9)

Having spent 10 years in DC, we moved onto the boat in June 2012, with the intent of sailing across the Atlantic to the Mediterranean for a year. As of June 2013, we've sailed from the U.S. (Annapolis, Maryland) to Bermuda, then to the Azores, to Lisbon and down the Atlantic coast of Portugal and Spain, through the Straits of Gibraltar, along the southern coast of Spain (with a quick trip to Morocco) to Ibiza, then Sicily, through the Corinth Canal and Greek islands, winter in Turkey, a few weeks in Israel, with a side trip to Egypt. After a month in the Adriatic in spring, we all sailed to the Azores, where mom, cat and kids left by airplane, leaving John and crew to bring the boat back home to the Chesapeake.