Stranded in paradise on a broken boat...

[@myRAcm33]

Aye aye captain. Happy you made it ....never had any doubts you wouldnt

[@davidpickles8866]

Chin up Tim. You did great and much more than most would attempt! i hope you continue on and get back some of that confidence

[@Bill-d5o]

Don't put yourself down Tim, you did the right thing under stressful conditions. Hope to see you both sometime next season. Take care

[@joandtim]

Cheers bud, sat in comfort at my desk its easy to be critical of how it affected me at the time but the biggest fear was not knowing what to do, judging it now with all the info and hindsight is not that reasonable.

[@ronniemiles7290]

Well done Tim - tough situation but you handled it , don’t be too hard on yourself .

[@joandtim]

Thanks bud, easy to look back with hindisight and chastise myself for not being more easy going at the time but its pretty scary being on your own with all the responsibility of the boat and not sure what is the right course of action.

[@paulfox1756]

Amazing video... thanks for sharing. It brought back memories of a time when I got diesel bug blockage just coming out of the narrows. No wind and drifting on my own! In situations like this you can feel so isolated! I managed to limp along to the same marina where instead of trying to charge me for a mechanic to get my engine running again, they were happy to lend me a few important tools that I did not have along with some advice! These experiences can bring home the big differences between solo and sailing with a crew! I found tiredness is the killer! making bad decisions through stress and lack of sleep! However, I do try to learn from my experiences, bad or good... I replaced my outboard with a 3.5hp mercury so having a 31ft boat, I can tow it with my dinghy in calm seas! I bought an oversized anchor so worse case if I was drifting towards land, drop the anchor! and finally for my mental health, I also bring my dog with me! He is a very good distration and gives me time to think a problem through!

[@joandtim]

Sounds like you had the very experience I was worried about. Glad you came out ok. I think your advice is very good, an outboard would probably not be a bad shout, like you say something like a 3.5 wouldn't get me far but might get me somewhere where I can throw the hook over. Also agree on the anchor, I have some pretty decent ground gear (never skimp there if you want to sleep is my motto) and had it on deck ready to go over at a seconds notice.

[@Evilzionistbabykillers]

You made it, successful voyage ⚓🎉

[@joandtim]

Eventually :)

[@Evilzionistbabykillers]

@@joandtim You made it , that's all that matters 💯😊

[@jackieflint9071]

That looked really stressful. However, sitting here calmly in a marina, I think the best thing would have actually been to motor the whole way. When you motor ahead, the propeller is pushing itself (and the boat) forwards; in other words, it's pushing itself further on to the shaft. If the nut did come undone, the prop would only fall off if you put the engine in reverse or if you were sailing. Hope all is sorted now.

[@joandtim]

Yeah I wasn't sure how sound this theory was at the time, but it was the main reason I was going back and forth on stopping the engine once the wind picked up as I was worried the forward motion was the only thing holding the prop one

[@stephenkane1074]

Enjoyed the video Tim. One can only get better at problem solving by having problems! You got back in one piece ... success.

[@joandtim]

Looking back this, and the whole trip was certainly a big learning experience and knowing it all turned out well now I can say it was a good one :)

[@V8guy3500]

Nail biter 😮 man time you got a break🙁If you’d had my number I’d of happily come and towed you down the Kyle’s. Never be too proud to ask for assistance from anyone at any time. The sailing community is helpful and considerate. Although respect to you for getting yourself out of the jam 👏

[@joandtim]

Thats really kind, appreciate it. Its one of the difficult things about having the boat 6 hours from where we live is that we don't have a network of friends up there to leen on in an emergency. That being said the crusiing community is generally pretty awesome and I know if I called out for help someone would answer. Hope to see you out on the water sometime.

[@andrewgreen7833]

That was a tough one, another character forming event! If you look under the starboard seat there is a moulded shape to stow the washboards!

[@joandtim]

You literally blew my mind with that comment, have always wondered why there was a weird square moulding in the seat, but its to accomadate the air vent, so obvious now you said it. I might need to adjust the new benches I made last year to accomadate but that certainly going on the list of jobs for the winter. I have been scratching my head on a convienient way to store the washboards and it turns out the etap designers were way ahead of me.

[@gingerbard2607]

Tim, your channel resonates with me like no other. Sailing the same waters as me; same level of (in)experience, and like me, sole responsibility (with all due respect to Jo) for sorting problems when they occur. I'm amazed that you had the gumption to film as much as you did.; I just hope the hassle doesn't put you off the whole enterprise! When you went to start the engine and heard that clicking . . . .! I feel for you having to have the boat lifted out again so soon. Scratching around with a boathook under my boat recently it felt like my zincs were a bit crumbly: the cost of even a short duration haulout in the upper Clyde is high so I'm currently investing in a hookah system - it'll more than pay for itself if I'm able to swap the anodes myself even just once.

[@TonyMorel]

Blimey. I haven't really watched since you got shot of the L23, but as I've finally got my L23SL kinda seaworthy, I thought I'd pop in and see how chilled and relaxing the new boat ownership was going. Seems like I've a fair bit to catch up on !

[@joandtim]

I was certainly missing Salty on those days, in general though the new boat is going well, we had some rougher crossings later in the trip and I was glad to be on a bigger heavier boat for those.

[@Christopher-qp5hs]

Thanks for posting the video, looked incredibly stressful and definitely showed the other side of solo sailing. Hope the remainder of the trip went better

[@joandtim]

Thanks, there were a couple of other hiccups, which will be coming in the next few episodes but things do settle down and improve.

[@jcfgh]

Well done old chap. A pretty harrowing situation. I have been thinking about getting a mini gas bottle set up from Tudiving which makes itxeasief to stay under for a bit. You are certainly not an idiot, and as a solo sailor myself, I think you overcame your problems extremely well. I hope this doesn't put you off your adventure. Best wishes. James

[@joandtim]

Thanks James, I would love a bit of scuba kit, I have done a fair bit of scuba in my day. The problem is with boats that there are lots of things I would like, also my concern over something like this would be maintenance its something that is going to sit unused for long periods but need to be ready to go when needed. Maybe I need to look a bit more into it to see what they involve.

[@TheMonkenstien]

Use the tender ? To motor the boat

[@joandtim]

I don't have a particualrly powerful motor for the dinghy, in calm weather I would probably be able to manouver a bit but dragging it 10 miles would be possible

[@Martin37vg]

Ropes and underwater are very dodgy. Anyway did you see the cheap dive system the Sailing Brothers built . Would have been your answer. Couple of episodes ago.

[@joandtim]

Yeah getting tied up under water was pretty scary, I was just telling myself to be calm and undo the clip, but the back of my mind was screaming that I was about to drown. A small dive bottle or similar would have been really nice at the time.

[@smokingkippers1173]

Well, at least you had a refreshing dip.

[@joandtim]

It was certainly that

[@jonny5714]

Buy any old used outboard in the area till you can get it out of the water. Will probably cost $500 for a tiny one and you can resell it later or use it. Better than paying thousands to get a boatyard to drop everything.

[@joandtim]

I did spend a fair amount of time thinking about that, main issue I was trying to figuire was where I would mount it. At the time I was thinking about my trolling motor, probably wouldn't be enough to drive the boat but might give me some manouvering. I do miss having an outboard engine, so much easier to maintain and swap if worst comes to worst

[@SOLDOZER]

Reason #5,865,206 to not get a folding prop. Was all this worth .5 knots of speed?

[@joandtim]

Lol, I spent most of the 3 days muttering to myself about how much I hate the prop and looking at fixed ones to replace it with.

[@forresta65]

you had a go....that's all you can do. anybody that says they could do it better is a little bit disingenuous. learning is experience.

[@joandtim]

Yeah as I said in the video I did all I could do, was the right thing, probably not but it was all I could do at the time with the info I had