Oman Fishing 2022
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We've got the tilt mech off the engine and taken it apart as far as we need to.
This is the solid stainless steel axle around which tilt/trim unit pivots. It's a solid rod of 316 stainless steel and is supposed to be straight
The forces that went through that poor engine are really stupifying…Good news is that we can see no other significant damage, well the engine cover took a beating when it hit the seat backrest....
The engineer has taken the unit back to his workshop for a Frankenstein rebuild. Fingers are well and truly crossed…
The other guys have gone to a local Wadi for a swim/fish, but I decided to get some R&R. I've missed out on a days fishing, need to be in as good as nick as possible when we get out again....
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And the good news, it is all fixed, and the cracks in the deck are being caulked as I type - of course, the batteries are in the compartment under the damage
The unit has been Frankensteined and the donor unit now awaits spares - it came from one of the other boats, which for reasons I have not got to the bottom of, we cant use
So, we have missed a whole days fishing, but I've lost more than that in a week to bad weather, so all is good….
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Probably, the most unlikely….
But seriously, I consider myself to be supremely lucky. I get to do some very weird and wonderful shit, and I have a wife in @Madame Buttonfly who whilst not exactly ecstatic about me doing fucking stupid stuff with people half my age (not in itself a bad thing, but I do shit that I probably should have stopped doing decades ago), puts up with it, in good grace.
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Wow full on. Did you see the whale?
Glad to hear you fared better than the poor guys in this painting by Charles Sidney Raleigh.
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Very glad you are ok and about to get out there again!
Any idea what kind of injuries/severity the humpback takes after a hit like this?
Look forward to your upcoming GT pics!
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I doubt whether we were targetted, we were cruising at 30knots, I think it just surfaced as we crossed its path. I suspect it did not suffer, the Humpbacks here average about 15meters long and will be heavily protected by a layer of blubber.
We hit it with the skeg and not the propeller, so I guess it was like us being annoyed by a mosquito….
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Wow, that is a freak accident. Could have been thrown off the boat… Glad to hear you are OK!
Need to get back to fishing. Can't wait to see some pics. -
Should change your forum name to “Ahab”.
Needless to say, being woken this morning by a call from Giles at 07:30, with horrible connectivity, saying there had been a boat crash, was - well - bloody awful! He convinced me in a later call (when I could actually hear what he was saying) that he's okay. And the fact that he's been documenting his adventures leads me to believe that his mind (if not his body) is still functioning as well as can be expected! ::)
