SAILING IS ABOUT PREPARATIONS AND MAINTENANCE - SwT 157 - Lewmar

SO HAPPY TO HAVE MY STEERING FIXED! Huge load off my shoulders now. If you have LEWMAR onboard you might have a problem. At least you should inspect your steering quadrants and couplings. The quality is shockingly poor, but thankfully I finally got my hands on the new quadrant and can fix my LEWMAR problems. At least the one that failed as getting things shipped into Tahiti is ridiculously expensive and time-consuming. According to Bavaria, LEWMAR USA, and Tech Support, I was supposed to have a beefed-up version of the LEWMAR COBRA steering. However after receiving the BEEFED UP version of the quadrant I see a significant difference. My original quadrant was like tinfoil compared to the new one. So I'm really curious if this is what I should have had, and if so why did my yacht not come with this. Or if the beefed-up came later due to what I have experienced. Extremely poor quality. What I do know it's no surprise this did not last.

From now on I'm sailing solo again, but first need to fix the steering and sort out some other things before I continue toward the west. The next jump will be 1500 nautical miles nonstop to Fiji. So I also would need to fix my autopilots and a few other things the last days I have here.

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Sailing around the world in a Bavaria 55 Cruiser, making videos whenever we have time for it. I used to sail singlehanded and occasionally have sailing friends onboard. But now the permanent crew aboard BE FREE is including Gee from Holland. We are now exploring the Pacific Ocean.

Even though this is season 5 on YouTube I did not make that many videos in the beginning. Before full-time sailing, I sailed several seasons in the Mediterranean prior to this, and obviously also in Scandinavia. I have been traveling the world before and have also been an active regatta sailor. I had my first sailboat at age 7 and have been sailing ever since. Also, more than 10 years of experience in Search and Rescue at sea in Norway.

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