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Could you please spell my last name correctly... there is no “R” in Bill Stange, thank you.

Hula update: Currently in Eureka, my Westsail and I are taking our sweet time on our delivery from Driftwood Key (15 miles north of Seattle) to the Bay Area. All is going smoothly except for the...

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Crawling westward in super light air, I had a chance to google “diesel runaway”. Scary videos!!! I realized that I was indeed lucky that my motor hadn’t exploded! It turns out...

(Continued). After calming down, I called the wife and told her what happened. She basically said to relax, the motor is kaput, and to go play my guitar for a few minutes. That helped. Realizing...

The Yanmar 53 ran for I would guess about a minute at an RPM that I never thought was even possible. My first reaction was to throttle back, which put the engine in neutral. To my shock, this had...

Haha I’ve only done the SHTP once, in ‘88. I will have to work on my 2.1 knot average speed if I want to make the party. No more parking with the albatross for days at a time. Incredibly, I did a...

The Westsail 32 with the blown engine and the 2.1 knot average
Speed for nearly 8 days is “HULA”, and my name is Bill Stange.

Woo hoo! Just got back from my new qualifier.
I went out the Strait of Juan de Fuca and back for the 400 NAUTICAL (!)
miles. Scared myself half to death when my Yanmar 53 diesel decided to
do...