All Comments on 'Aurora - Goddess of the Dawn Pt. 02'

Enjoying your seatail........and the way you have captured sailing life please keep going

A new boat would likely have an automatic engine shutdown at a set temperature, probably would have prevented the damage. Would also expect the boat to have a generator or perhaps solar.

Automatic engine shutdown due to overheat indication is probably not a good idea in any vessel, land, air or seaborne. Hence the provision of an audio warning and temperature readout, both of which in this case were ignored. To verify the breathtaking stupidity of casual sailors, tune into the daily skeds in any bareboat charter waters and listen to the endless litany of avoidable fuckups. And you're right, Big boat like Bragg's does warrant a genset, he declined this and other optional extras because the engine was brand new and there was no reason to suspect it would fail. I base these assumptions on my own sailing and flying experience.