Thanks for joining us on our Sojourn to the islands of the Caribbean! In this video we arrive in Portland Maine and say goodbye to Bob our crewmember. After ...

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Nawal just came up from a nap and we were

about to put out the mainsail and the jib

sail so that we could switch from using

the engine to the sails and as we were

putting up the mainsail we noticed the

engines started to make kind of a

different noise. Nawal thought maybe

it sounded a little like an airplane but

it was definitely like a different noise

and I looked down there's a lot of white

smoke coming out of the engine and you

know.. sometimes there's smoke coming

out but I wasn't sure what that meant

last time on Sailing Balachandra we

rode out the remnants of Hurricane

Nestor and then crossed the Gulf of

Maine. We tried to leave Portland Maine

this morning. We were on a mooring ball

overnight and there was a lot of heavy

wind so we knew that the sea state

would be increased. They predicted about

two meter waves we left the mooring and

sailed out into the channel and we could

see waves breaking on the rocks we

thought the Sun was kind of shining on

the water ahead of us. We thought maybe

that's waves breaking out there so this

little fishing boat came up beside us

and started going out the channel too. We

got past the last entry markers

and we went right into 30-foot waves! I

mean it was intense; massive waves and

they were just about at the breaking

point with seven second intervals it was

scary...

we took a few of those big ones just

going up and down a mountain...we didn't

catch it on camera because we were too busy

handling the boat. The fishing boat got

ahead of us. He went out a little ways

and you he gave up; he said no way and he

turned his boat and went back so we said

okay yeah no... we're gonna spend the day

in Portland. We brought our deisel jugs. Just filled up our water. We tied up the

dinghy into four points marina spelled

f-o-r-e A nice little marina - lots of space

cost us $20 US to tie up our dinghy

there for the day and yeah I'm just

gonna go fill up these diesel cans and

grab a bite to eat and a coffee or

whatever and just kind of see what

Portland has to offer hopefully we'll

get out of here tomorrow morning. Just

stopping for a quick bite to eat here at

Oyster&Co. Got some fries.. Zeus is

somewhere?

our boat hook got mangled in one of our jib

sheets in the middle of the crossing

from Nova Scotia to Portland - crookedly

mangled. We're just gonna run into West

Marine and take a look see if we can

find a new boat hook. We've accumulated

more stuff! Backpacks are full of

groceries.. new boat hook. we're just

trying to find a gas station now to fill

our diesel tanks. Well we were finally

able to get all the water and diesel

jugs we needed for the next leg of our

trip. So it's 20 dollars to tie up here

but you also get a free shower and use of the

facilities. It's been little over a week

now and Bob has decided that it's time

for him to go home he feels that Dan and

I are more than capable of completing

this journey just the two of us we will

miss him. I got the jib up. We just

left Portland and I'm motor sailing now. Nawal is taking a nap we're going

back out into the Gulf of Maine so that

we can go from Portland down to Cape Cod

and then we're gonna try and hook up

with some friends and I think we're

going to try to cross to Bermuda but now

that we're out in the channel it's

probably a good time to put up with jib

and try to squeeze a few knots out of the

trip here and once we're out and

we're about back out into the open water

we're going to put up both sails and

we're gonna try to fly to Cape Cod.

all right so Noel just came up from a

nap and we were about to put out the

mainsail an the jib sail so that we

could switch from using the engine to

the sails and as we were putting up the

mainsail we noticed the engine started

to make kind of a different noise. Nawal thought maybe it sounded a little

like an airplane but it was definitely

like a different noise and I looked down

there's a lot of white smoke coming out

of the engine and you know

sometimes there's smoke coming out but I

wasn't sure what that meant we noticed

that the boat speed had dropped quite a

bit I'm hoping that it's nothing serious

or maybe just overheated or maybe we

have something wrapped around the prop I

don't know.. We're just gonna sail for a

while and let the engine cool down then

I want to check it out and check some fluids

and have a look at it and see if I can

figure out what's wrong with it but we

planned to sail all night and then all

day tomorrow so as long as the wind

doesn't die we should we should be okay

without the engine for now

we are just outside of Boston we sailed

all night went way past where all the

lobster traps and crab pots and all that

stuff are now we're just coming in

crossing another shipping lane into the

Boston area hopefully there's a place in

Cape Cod where we can tie up because

there's supposed to be some pretty

nasty weather coming through tomorrow

and we want to be safe and secure before

that hits

so we pulled into Marblehead which is

just outside of Boston

Marblehead is famous for the Marblehead

to Nova Scotia race a lot of my friends

back in Halifax have done. This place was

a good place to find a good morning ball

and there's quite a few of them here. We

were going to meet friends in Montauk

but I think they changed their plans

we're still going to head that way go

through the Cape Cod Canal and make our

way to Bermuda probably in a few days

when this weather clears but what we've

got right now is a pretty bad storm it's

going to be pretty intense tonight

they're calling for up to 50 knots of

wind tonight but we've got a pretty

solid mooring ball here and we're fairly

well protected here near Boston so I

think it was a smart move for us to come

in during our passage.

our engine lost a

lot of power.

we were motoring just outside of

Portland and it started to sound funny

we started sailing at that point so we

kind of ignored it but then we turned

the engine back on when we got closer to

this area and realized that we had still

quite a bit of power loss there's a lot

of white smoke coming out of the engine

This morning I took the phone. I put it

on the boat hook and I and I stuck it

under the water and had a look at our

prop it looks like we have a lot of rope

or fishing line or something wrapped

around our prop and it's pretty bad so

before we leave here I've got to put on

my wetsuit get in the water and go cut

whatever is around the prop off of there

stay tuned you're gonna see me diving in

cold frigid North Atlantic water to cut

stuff off of our prop.

suited up in my seven mil wetsuit for

the North Atlantic I'm going to get in

the water and I'm going to try to cut

whatever's around our prop off it sucks

it's like November first.

all right well my wetsuit works. it

actually isn't too bad going in there

once you get in it's really not that bad.

you can go down, you could work seven mil

wetsuit for the North Atlantic hopefully

we'll be out of here on Saturday and we

will begin our trip to Bermuda I think

because it looks like we have some

other boats that we know that are

heading that way and hopefully we'll all

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next time on sailing balachandra we do the

Cape Cod Canal then finally leave for

Bermuda