While replacing bungs on our teak deck this summer, I ran into a board that needed replacing. There was a small hole in the board…
Author: Rob
In the last chapter of this saga, we received a response from the CEO of the company that manages the ships for Eitzen Chemical. We…
And finally, our response to the owners with a link to photos that seem to be at odds with the tanker’s captain. I’m sure we’ve…
Here is the response we received from the owners of Siteam Leader. Unfortunately for them, we have photos that seem to contradict their report. Rob…
A week after arriving in Seattle we received an email from the owners of the psycho tanker, Siteam Leader. Quite a pleasant surprise, I never…
I guess I should say sixth and final week. The last week of this was boring as we’ve sailed south east towards the Straits of…
The fifth week started with us becalmed. When we checked the surface analysis we were stuck between two very weak low pressure centers – who…
As I write this we have around 1500 miles left. There is no real news this week, we’ve been slowly sailing north, northeast, and east…
Compared to the storms of the first week and the psycho tanker at the end of the second, the third week has been pretty uneventful.…
Here is our email to the Coast Guard documenting our encounter with the tanker ‘Siteam Leader’. In the report below ‘CPA’ is ‘Closest point of…