Pachuca OK

I visited Pachuca this weekend, two weeks after the grounding.  As I approached her I kept a wary eye on her water line and she seemed to be riding as high in the water as ever.  Once inside the cabin I started the electric bilge pump which began sucking air almost immediately.

So as I had expected, the boat is not taking water, and I am confident that the only damage from the recent grounding is to the anti fouling at the bottom of the keel.

Our legendary sailor Jon Sanders ran into his own boat problems during the week.  The boat that he was delivering began taking more water than the pumps could deal with in very rough seas.  There was a hole in the deck, two skin fittings (which are below the water line) failed, and there must have been another leak elsewhere.

Jon cannot be faulted because he was only delivering the boat and would not be expected to make a full survey of the vessel.  Incidentally, I had every skin fitting (aka thru-hull fitting) replaced on Pachuca at great expense before setting off around the world. 

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-28/renowned-sailor-jon-sanders-blames-huge-swell-for-yacht-rescue/6579042