03.51.164N 126.56.031W (due south of British Columbia, due east of Columbia, 230miles north of the equator), 85F, 83% humidity. The weather subsided around 5pm last night. Jimmy C was absolutely correct as soon as we were south of 5N, the current went away, speed increased and at the moment we are enjoying a nice ride where it’s calm enough to make a normal dinner. Here’s a HUGE vote to the Nordhavn community. If we’ve learned anything on a voyage like this, if you think something is not right – investigate. Unlike your car where just turn the radio up louder – being a long way from help it’s important to diagnose any potential issues. As was the case with Engine Room temperatures. In Cabo, we had the good fortune of having dinner with Ken Williams (Nordhavn guru – kensblog.com). I sent an email to Ken as well as Melt Emms at Raven Marine both have extensive experience on N62s. Ken is also close friends with Steven Argosy on Seabird – N6204 which is almost identical to our boat. We sent the Iridium email at 10am West Coast time – rechecked at 2pm and I had replies from Ken, Steven and Melt. In summary, the temperatures we are seeing are high, and we should be running our engine room blowers 24/7 in these temperatures. The good news I had them all replaced when we did the refit at Raven Marine, however the port side breaker is on the generator circuit. Steven A confirmed this is critical as it provides cross-flow to the engine room. A quick email exchange with Melt – and he reminded me we are a 230v/50hz boat, and there are 3 wires for all the AC appliances. For us 110v guys, that’s a new twist – you can’t just move the positive over to the Inverter circuit – need to move both the “L1 and L2″ wires. You should see the gazillion of wires behind the AC panel. I do have a little extra time on my hands – so we locate the L1 wires and move them a spare breaker on the inverter panel – finding the L2 is a puzzle. 3 Iridium miniutes with Melt confirmed we need to move it – so by process of elimination on the 3rd try we identify the L2 and move it over to the inverter. Engine blowers fully operational. Steven on Seabird says the two blowers port and starboard bring his engine room down 20 degrees. We’ll have the report tomorrow. [google-map-v3 width=”350″ height=”350″ zoom=”7″ maptype=”satellite” mapalign=”center” directionhint=”false” language=”default” poweredby=”false” maptypecontrol=”true” pancontrol=”true” zoomcontrol=”true” scalecontrol=”true” streetviewcontrol=”true” scrollwheelcontrol=”false” draggable=”true” tiltfourtyfive=”false” addmarkermashupbubble=”false” addmarkermashupbubble=”false” addmarkerlist=”4.0988,-126.682{}cruiseship.png” bubbleautopan=”true” showbike=”false” showtraffic=”false” showpanoramio=”false”]