Voyages of Zoom

March Thur 17 I found and repaired the oil leak on the genset. It was not a diesel leaf not an oil leak. It was on the return line after the diesel has been supplied to the injectors. Took about…

March Tues 15th After waking I checked the sails this morning to find that there was a large tear in the main sail on the outer layer on the windward side between first and second reefs. We had been on…

Wed March 2 We leave Galapagos Islands today. It has been an interesting stay but I have now seen enough Galapagos Sea lions (up close and personal, not exactly a Chanel No. 5 smell, not even close), blue footed Boobies,…

Today Jeremy and I finished servicing the remaining four winches on the boat. I also checked the winch that I serviced last year. It was in good condition with plenty of grease in all the bearings and moving parts. A…

We were warned that the Galapagos Sea loins love to get up onto a yacht to lay in the sun and we should try to put up some sort of barrier to keep them off. We put up the barrier…

Kicker Rock welcomed us into the Galapagos Islands.  We will do a tour of the rock in a couple of days. The gap between the rocks is quite stunning. We passed the view of the gap while I was down in…

On the  17th Feb we crossed the Equator. If you look at the top left of the chart plotter you will see our Latitude is 00 degrees 00.000 Minutes South.   In fact we crossed the equator about 4 times trying get…

Today we completed the downward section of the Panama Canal to enter the Pacific ocean.  During the crossing two catamarans “Widago” and “Zoom” were tied either side to the mono-hull “Waterman” and crossed the canal as a raft.  All went well until…

Today we arrived in Halifax, and were treated to our own berth at the dock, right downtown.