Hello every one,
I am still anchored in Herradura.
My WIFI conection is not to good, so this will be a quick update.
I have been working on my engines raw water system the past few days, and now it is better then ever!
I am going to re-install the rudder sensor for the autopilot tomorow, then test it.
The weater has been crappy lately, but hopefully i will get some good weather to take of again, and with all systems go!
I am also working on a online photo album, and will let you know when it is up and runnning!
Cheers,
Josh
Live Your Dream!
Elusive possibly for sale! Contact for details.
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Friday, August 29, 2008
For Sale!
Elusive may be for sale soon, if you have any interest, or questions, feel free to email!
Joshhi53@gmail.com
Joshhi53@gmail.com
Broken board, broken oar, and no raw water ..
Well today I coninued the hunt for the raw water problem with the engine. I had taken the pump off yesterday and opened it up, beliving it to be a bad impellor. but that was not the case.
when i put the ump back on the engine it seemed as though the belt was just to big. so having to taken off and such I decided that it was the day to fix the water pump belt problem, once and for all.
The steel bracket that holds the engine mounts has been giving me problems with tensioning my water pump belt, from day one. the bracket comes in contact with the pump, at what seems to be the perfect tension. It is not possible to make the belt any tighter then what the distance to the bracket allows. usually after afew hours, or more of running. the vibration of the pump against this bracket moves it sufficiantly to loosen the belt a bit.
I have allways meant to cut a pit of the bracket off, to allow the pump to pass, but never got the will power up to do it.
yesterday was the day. I got out the grinder, and discs, and cut away a piece of worthlss, no good steel, that was unstructing my water pump!
but sadly, the water still was not flowing through the engine.
so, today i did afew tess, and checks, but still can nt find why there is very little water making it to the engine pump. tomorow i will continue, with a simple check from under the boat, for a clogged through hull fitting. If that does not fix it, I will just have to keep hunting!
went for a surf today, had aewnice waves, but sadly broke an oar on thedinghy getting in. aswell broke my old board in the waves. none the less, it still was fun. but, now i have to track own another oar!
Cheers,
Josh
S/V Elusive
Live Your Dream!
when i put the ump back on the engine it seemed as though the belt was just to big. so having to taken off and such I decided that it was the day to fix the water pump belt problem, once and for all.
The steel bracket that holds the engine mounts has been giving me problems with tensioning my water pump belt, from day one. the bracket comes in contact with the pump, at what seems to be the perfect tension. It is not possible to make the belt any tighter then what the distance to the bracket allows. usually after afew hours, or more of running. the vibration of the pump against this bracket moves it sufficiantly to loosen the belt a bit.
I have allways meant to cut a pit of the bracket off, to allow the pump to pass, but never got the will power up to do it.
yesterday was the day. I got out the grinder, and discs, and cut away a piece of worthlss, no good steel, that was unstructing my water pump!
but sadly, the water still was not flowing through the engine.
so, today i did afew tess, and checks, but still can nt find why there is very little water making it to the engine pump. tomorow i will continue, with a simple check from under the boat, for a clogged through hull fitting. If that does not fix it, I will just have to keep hunting!
went for a surf today, had aewnice waves, but sadly broke an oar on thedinghy getting in. aswell broke my old board in the waves. none the less, it still was fun. but, now i have to track own another oar!
Cheers,
Josh
S/V Elusive
Live Your Dream!
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Wind and Rain!
Hello everyone,
It was quite the nasty weather yesterday! the morning was nice, I could do some interent out on deck. speaking of which, I was on a forum the other day, it gets your location throug your IP address. It said I was at Palmarta Rica! ha ha I suppose thats why WIFI navigation is not going to catch on!
any way, we had quite alot of wind. which turned into waves and swell, we had 3 foot white caps in the anchorage! of course that is not a very large wave, but does not make it a comfortable place to be anchored! with all the waind we had I saw quite alot of boats pull in to get out of the weather. if anyone who is reading this is going to come and anchore here, I strongly suggest NOT anchoring right behind the island. with this stron S SE wind it would come in between the island,a nd the mainland, and create water spouts! thats right, water spouts - tornados on the water! i saw no less then three, and i was not sitting on deck watching the weather so long. just periodic check ups. the funny thing was that the spouts would only be right around the island. as soon s the moved away, they went away.
The salvage plan to try and find a missing mooring did not go to well. we used a whole tank of air searching a little area fora fifty five gallon drum. could not find it.
the water had so much silt in it you could not see the end of you arm!
We still have th swell of yesterdays wind coming in here, the swell is not as big as yesterday. but at least it is not that terribly un comfortable three foot chop! hope fully I will get some nice waves to surf on later.
oh as for the new features. I could not find a map i could place on here, then simple put a dot, or trail so people can visually follow along. but i will start posting on every, or nearly ever post the Latitude, and Longitude. then if you have google earth, or a nautical chart of the area, you can see exactly where I am. Google earth works very well, I have it now on my computer, simply type in my Lat, Lon, into the search box, and you will fly right into where I am.
I hope that will help for the people requesting better loations.
as for poeple requesting the planned route, I am still working on that.
Cheers,
Josh
S/V Elusive
It was quite the nasty weather yesterday! the morning was nice, I could do some interent out on deck. speaking of which, I was on a forum the other day, it gets your location throug your IP address. It said I was at Palmarta Rica! ha ha I suppose thats why WIFI navigation is not going to catch on!
any way, we had quite alot of wind. which turned into waves and swell, we had 3 foot white caps in the anchorage! of course that is not a very large wave, but does not make it a comfortable place to be anchored! with all the waind we had I saw quite alot of boats pull in to get out of the weather. if anyone who is reading this is going to come and anchore here, I strongly suggest NOT anchoring right behind the island. with this stron S SE wind it would come in between the island,a nd the mainland, and create water spouts! thats right, water spouts - tornados on the water! i saw no less then three, and i was not sitting on deck watching the weather so long. just periodic check ups. the funny thing was that the spouts would only be right around the island. as soon s the moved away, they went away.
The salvage plan to try and find a missing mooring did not go to well. we used a whole tank of air searching a little area fora fifty five gallon drum. could not find it.
the water had so much silt in it you could not see the end of you arm!
We still have th swell of yesterdays wind coming in here, the swell is not as big as yesterday. but at least it is not that terribly un comfortable three foot chop! hope fully I will get some nice waves to surf on later.
oh as for the new features. I could not find a map i could place on here, then simple put a dot, or trail so people can visually follow along. but i will start posting on every, or nearly ever post the Latitude, and Longitude. then if you have google earth, or a nautical chart of the area, you can see exactly where I am. Google earth works very well, I have it now on my computer, simply type in my Lat, Lon, into the search box, and you will fly right into where I am.
I hope that will help for the people requesting better loations.
as for poeple requesting the planned route, I am still working on that.
Cheers,
Josh
S/V Elusive
Sunday, August 24, 2008
new features
Hello every one,
I am sorry for the postng delay. I am working on afew new features to add to the site, and it has been taking my time.
Every thing is going good here, I am still at herradura 9 38' 49 N 84 39' 37 W
I will post again when som new features are up and running.
cheers,
Josh
S/V Elusive
Live Your Dream!
I am sorry for the postng delay. I am working on afew new features to add to the site, and it has been taking my time.
Every thing is going good here, I am still at herradura 9 38' 49 N 84 39' 37 W
I will post again when som new features are up and running.
cheers,
Josh
S/V Elusive
Live Your Dream!
Sunday, August 17, 2008
White Water Dinghy Ride, and screams of drowning people...
last night was quite the night.
I can sum it up, but the words won´t do it justice.
I leave my dinghy, high and dry on the beach, chained to a palm tree.
every day i cross a little creek to go to the bus that heads into town.
Last night, upon my return, with some rain form the big down pour still coming down.
The little creek was no longer a 20 foot wide, waid accross- but a hundred meter wide, boiling river filled with white caps, and such. I thought i would give a walk accross a try, and fouind the shallowest spot i could. just ten feet out it got quite deep, and i decide it wasnt worth the risk. that current was so swift i would have been out in the breakers and swimming accross in no time. no big deal, but i didnt feel like swimming at night in that bloody fast current, and mess of waves. when i turned to leave, and nearly tripped over this poor drowned dog, I decide i made the right call. So i took the one mile hike thought town, all around, over the bridge, and down the hill, back down the other side of the beach, to a point just one hundred meters form where i began.
It must have really rained there, the whole area was flooded, and my high and dry dinghy, was no more. it was floating in about knee deep water, in the grass, still chained to the palm.
well, getting the dinghy out was easy, just floated it right out of the area i had dragged it through before. and jsut a bit farther to the endge of the river, which chose to make a snake like turn and cut me off form the calmer beach. but no worries, me and my rubber raft will just get to do a bit of white water rafting, fun!
sence i was on the other side of the river, it was very aparent that it was a wise decision not to waid, or swimm accross, for there was a five foot cliff of sand on the other side. good judgement prevails shorts cut a suprising lot of the time.
I pulled the dinghy to the endge of the river, at a low bank, and pushed out into the current.
WOAH! what a ride down stream! up, down, up, down, and through the surf, the fastest time i have left a beach, and the easiest in months! i didnt even have to row!
when i reached the boat, i could see, and feel that the current was clearly making it all the way out there. all the boats where facing bow to the river, against wind, and swell. My boat had a nice bow wave, and i had perfect steerage onboard. the current was strong enough to ever operate the windvane!
afew minutes on the screams started... someone must have fallen in. the sounds of people screaming for help lasted for at least an hour. ambulances, and cars kept coming. the screaming for AYUDA! kept being screamed. it wasnt a pretty sight. and i dought i will get those screams out of my head soon. I could not help against the current with my rowing dinghy. so all i could do is look for bodies floating by, and if i saw one, pull it aboard. none came by, but it was a long night.
today the creek is back to itsa small trangual state, just very wide. pieces of house, are spread like tidla rosa all over the area. pink flamingos were mingling in the river.
so that was last night, and a bit of today.
now i got to go and get back to life, with the shops all closing at different time at mid day, it makes it quite confusing.
Cheers, and R.I.P to last nights victums, who ever they were.
Josh
S/V Elusive
Live Your Dream!
( I am getting sick of the spell check not working, so sorry for any errors.)
I can sum it up, but the words won´t do it justice.
I leave my dinghy, high and dry on the beach, chained to a palm tree.
every day i cross a little creek to go to the bus that heads into town.
Last night, upon my return, with some rain form the big down pour still coming down.
The little creek was no longer a 20 foot wide, waid accross- but a hundred meter wide, boiling river filled with white caps, and such. I thought i would give a walk accross a try, and fouind the shallowest spot i could. just ten feet out it got quite deep, and i decide it wasnt worth the risk. that current was so swift i would have been out in the breakers and swimming accross in no time. no big deal, but i didnt feel like swimming at night in that bloody fast current, and mess of waves. when i turned to leave, and nearly tripped over this poor drowned dog, I decide i made the right call. So i took the one mile hike thought town, all around, over the bridge, and down the hill, back down the other side of the beach, to a point just one hundred meters form where i began.
It must have really rained there, the whole area was flooded, and my high and dry dinghy, was no more. it was floating in about knee deep water, in the grass, still chained to the palm.
well, getting the dinghy out was easy, just floated it right out of the area i had dragged it through before. and jsut a bit farther to the endge of the river, which chose to make a snake like turn and cut me off form the calmer beach. but no worries, me and my rubber raft will just get to do a bit of white water rafting, fun!
sence i was on the other side of the river, it was very aparent that it was a wise decision not to waid, or swimm accross, for there was a five foot cliff of sand on the other side. good judgement prevails shorts cut a suprising lot of the time.
I pulled the dinghy to the endge of the river, at a low bank, and pushed out into the current.
WOAH! what a ride down stream! up, down, up, down, and through the surf, the fastest time i have left a beach, and the easiest in months! i didnt even have to row!
when i reached the boat, i could see, and feel that the current was clearly making it all the way out there. all the boats where facing bow to the river, against wind, and swell. My boat had a nice bow wave, and i had perfect steerage onboard. the current was strong enough to ever operate the windvane!
afew minutes on the screams started... someone must have fallen in. the sounds of people screaming for help lasted for at least an hour. ambulances, and cars kept coming. the screaming for AYUDA! kept being screamed. it wasnt a pretty sight. and i dought i will get those screams out of my head soon. I could not help against the current with my rowing dinghy. so all i could do is look for bodies floating by, and if i saw one, pull it aboard. none came by, but it was a long night.
today the creek is back to itsa small trangual state, just very wide. pieces of house, are spread like tidla rosa all over the area. pink flamingos were mingling in the river.
so that was last night, and a bit of today.
now i got to go and get back to life, with the shops all closing at different time at mid day, it makes it quite confusing.
Cheers, and R.I.P to last nights victums, who ever they were.
Josh
S/V Elusive
Live Your Dream!
( I am getting sick of the spell check not working, so sorry for any errors.)
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Big Whales, Berlin Brass, and Bahia Herradura!
Hello every one!
the other night was my last in a while in Quepos. tahts right, I headed out this morning at six A.M. for Herradura. I arived here at three P.M. so I figure I did it right on schedule, suprisingly.
I saw the most amazing thing along the way, a HUGE whale jump out of the water right in fromt of me! It was incredable! one moment completely calm flat waters, and sailing along wondefully, then, BOOM! out of the water shoots a gigantic animal the size of a bus! big and blue! I am telling you this guy was HUGE, at least twice the size of my boat! he made one heck of a splash!
If that wasnt enough of a thrill already, not two minutes of shock later he does the same act again! This giant whale jumping almost completely out of the water, and sending a splash as if a meteor just hit the earth!
I got out the camara after that second one, thinking ¨man if this guy does it a third time i will have one incredable photo!¨ but he did not show himself again.
Last night i went to see a concert right before i left. I was eating a piece of pizza and thumbing through the news paper when i saw it. I had to kill some time in order to get my laundry from a friends house, so what the heck. I walked down the demon hill, this road that runs strait down the side of a mountain to get to the place. then watched, and listened to an hour of the German band Berlin Brass. It was not quite what i thought it would be, but all in all it wasnt to bad.
So now i am anchored off of the Herradura beach, near the entrence to the Los Syños marina.
Los syños is lets say ¨not the most cruiser friendly¨. to leave the dinghy there they want an ASTOUNDING forty dollars a day! there ¨discount rate¨ was a whopping two hundred dollars for a week! ¨OUCH!¨ I said i would happly deflate my boat and sttuff it into a cleaning locker if they make the price resonable, but they are real hard ***es and wouldn´t budge.
so I hauled the dinghy up this really long beach, and flipped it into the bushes, and tied it to a tree. tomorow i need to get a chain so i can lock it.
The sunset was ultra spectacular! Half of the sky was filled with purple and pinks, and every color in between! the whole horizon all around was royal purple.
well thats about it for today! tomorow will come hopefully, and wiht it for sure new discoveries,. and hopefull some security measure for my dink!
Cheers,
Josh
S/V Elusive
Live Your Dream!
the other night was my last in a while in Quepos. tahts right, I headed out this morning at six A.M. for Herradura. I arived here at three P.M. so I figure I did it right on schedule, suprisingly.
I saw the most amazing thing along the way, a HUGE whale jump out of the water right in fromt of me! It was incredable! one moment completely calm flat waters, and sailing along wondefully, then, BOOM! out of the water shoots a gigantic animal the size of a bus! big and blue! I am telling you this guy was HUGE, at least twice the size of my boat! he made one heck of a splash!
If that wasnt enough of a thrill already, not two minutes of shock later he does the same act again! This giant whale jumping almost completely out of the water, and sending a splash as if a meteor just hit the earth!
I got out the camara after that second one, thinking ¨man if this guy does it a third time i will have one incredable photo!¨ but he did not show himself again.
Last night i went to see a concert right before i left. I was eating a piece of pizza and thumbing through the news paper when i saw it. I had to kill some time in order to get my laundry from a friends house, so what the heck. I walked down the demon hill, this road that runs strait down the side of a mountain to get to the place. then watched, and listened to an hour of the German band Berlin Brass. It was not quite what i thought it would be, but all in all it wasnt to bad.
So now i am anchored off of the Herradura beach, near the entrence to the Los Syños marina.
Los syños is lets say ¨not the most cruiser friendly¨. to leave the dinghy there they want an ASTOUNDING forty dollars a day! there ¨discount rate¨ was a whopping two hundred dollars for a week! ¨OUCH!¨ I said i would happly deflate my boat and sttuff it into a cleaning locker if they make the price resonable, but they are real hard ***es and wouldn´t budge.
so I hauled the dinghy up this really long beach, and flipped it into the bushes, and tied it to a tree. tomorow i need to get a chain so i can lock it.
The sunset was ultra spectacular! Half of the sky was filled with purple and pinks, and every color in between! the whole horizon all around was royal purple.
well thats about it for today! tomorow will come hopefully, and wiht it for sure new discoveries,. and hopefull some security measure for my dink!
Cheers,
Josh
S/V Elusive
Live Your Dream!
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
A Beautiful Day
Today is turning out to be a great day.
There is a nice breeze blowing over the anchorage, it is sunny, and in the shade is nice, and cool.
I painted a bit of the foredeck, form the anchor windlass to the very bow. it looks allot better, and i think this paint will work good for the whole deck, and coach roof. maybe even the hull?
I bought some more of it in town today, and i think i will start to paint the deck in Herradura, sense i plan on leaving in the morning.
Also today i added some nice new clean oil to my engine, cleaned the prop, and allot of the hull. so from the deck down, i am all ready to go.
I should have nine knots of wind form the stern, and four to six foot swell. so hopefully i will have a nice run to my next spot.
well that is today, nope fully we will have a nice sunset here, and get a good nights rest before the daunting hand steering tomorrow.
Cheers,
Josh
S/V Elusive
Live Your Dream!
There is a nice breeze blowing over the anchorage, it is sunny, and in the shade is nice, and cool.
I painted a bit of the foredeck, form the anchor windlass to the very bow. it looks allot better, and i think this paint will work good for the whole deck, and coach roof. maybe even the hull?
I bought some more of it in town today, and i think i will start to paint the deck in Herradura, sense i plan on leaving in the morning.
Also today i added some nice new clean oil to my engine, cleaned the prop, and allot of the hull. so from the deck down, i am all ready to go.
I should have nine knots of wind form the stern, and four to six foot swell. so hopefully i will have a nice run to my next spot.
well that is today, nope fully we will have a nice sunset here, and get a good nights rest before the daunting hand steering tomorrow.
Cheers,
Josh
S/V Elusive
Live Your Dream!
Sashimi!
Hello every one!
Yesterday I caught a wonderful ten pound fish while spear fishing along the rocks!
I got two great fillets out of it! one I used for a huge plate of Japanese Sashimi, the other one i saved to cook for dinner. That great fish gave me two filling meals.
After that sadly I broke and oar going ashore. coming back out in the night took along time with only one oar, acting as a paddle. I had quite a few waves and some wind last night. there was a three foot swell, and some of the wavelets had white caps on the top, which did not help make my dinghy trip any faster.
so that is it for that day and night.
cheers,
Josh
S/V Elusive
Live Your Dream!
Yesterday I caught a wonderful ten pound fish while spear fishing along the rocks!
I got two great fillets out of it! one I used for a huge plate of Japanese Sashimi, the other one i saved to cook for dinner. That great fish gave me two filling meals.
After that sadly I broke and oar going ashore. coming back out in the night took along time with only one oar, acting as a paddle. I had quite a few waves and some wind last night. there was a three foot swell, and some of the wavelets had white caps on the top, which did not help make my dinghy trip any faster.
so that is it for that day and night.
cheers,
Josh
S/V Elusive
Live Your Dream!
Saturday, August 9, 2008
Time To Go Again
Yes, after so long here it is finally time to move on.
I have had a wonderful time in quepos, and I am sure i will come back here one day.
I will hopefully leave to herradura on Monday, or Tuesday if all works out.
Quepos has been really great. the anchorage pretty good, and the dinghy landing is never boring.
I did get my chain wrapped pretty good around a coral head, several acually. I had a really bad time with the chain short snubbing. if i wasnt on the boat it really could have done some damage.
I couldnt get the chain un-wrapped because the water is too murky here to see. but with a little time i got it undone with sheer brute force. then re-anchored in a new spot.
I have started som new projects on the boat. I am re- painting the insides, they look great.
as well the windlass is getting a couple of coats, the pedistal, and i am going to try and re-paint the cockpit again.
if that goes well, Maybe i do the decks. but i will see.
I lost my big anchore the other day. yes, sadly it is true. my fifty pound bruce boy is gone. and i miss it already. it also took with it my short section of chain. so my stern anchore system is gone.
well that is the update for now.
I am provisioning at the Feria soon,a nd have to go get some lemons and such.
Cheers,
Josh
Live Your Dream!
I have had a wonderful time in quepos, and I am sure i will come back here one day.
I will hopefully leave to herradura on Monday, or Tuesday if all works out.
Quepos has been really great. the anchorage pretty good, and the dinghy landing is never boring.
I did get my chain wrapped pretty good around a coral head, several acually. I had a really bad time with the chain short snubbing. if i wasnt on the boat it really could have done some damage.
I couldnt get the chain un-wrapped because the water is too murky here to see. but with a little time i got it undone with sheer brute force. then re-anchored in a new spot.
I have started som new projects on the boat. I am re- painting the insides, they look great.
as well the windlass is getting a couple of coats, the pedistal, and i am going to try and re-paint the cockpit again.
if that goes well, Maybe i do the decks. but i will see.
I lost my big anchore the other day. yes, sadly it is true. my fifty pound bruce boy is gone. and i miss it already. it also took with it my short section of chain. so my stern anchore system is gone.
well that is the update for now.
I am provisioning at the Feria soon,a nd have to go get some lemons and such.
Cheers,
Josh
Live Your Dream!
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