Meet the new crew

When leaving port for the first time this year, we‘ve welcomed our newest crew member aboard. He hides probably in the dark corner of our deep bilge, but reminds us every now and then that he needs to be entertained. Or fed. Or both. We still haven‘t figured out his needs.

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Meet Greg, our Gremlin aboard Amae.

Greg likes to play pranks on us. His favorite object to keep us busy is Otto, the engine. Every now and then, we find a nut or a bolt lying beneath our engine. A hint of panic arises in us when we see this. Especially when we can‘t find a missing bolt on the engine block. Where did it come from? Hours go by, just to realize that no bolt is missing. Eventually, we find out where Greg unscrewed it. A week ago, when we got ready to set sails, we found three liters of saltwater under our engine. Instead of leaving port that day, we spent the day in the engine room, dismantled the water pump, cleaned everything, changed the impeller, sealed the cover, installed the pump again just to find out that it still leaks. The same thing again - dismantle pump, install the spare pump. It took five hours to fix this. Greg was happy. I wasn‘t.

Other shenanigans include:

• Destroy a (brand new) autopilot relay (and refuse to work with any new relay…)

• Mess with our AIS receiver

• Have the diesel injectors leak

• Spill cooling water around the engine room

• Unscrew the shaft anode (even though it was fixed with Loctite…)

• Disconnect out radar from the internal network and make it impossible to reconnect it again

• Messing with the comment function on our website - this is fixed now, by the way. So comment along 🙃

• …and so on