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| Sunset at Prevost Harbor |
I am always kidding people by telling them they should "buy a boat and have fun." This really didn't apply so far this month. We have spent 22 days so far tied in port having engine problems looked at. We went into Anacortes on May 29 expecting to maybe be there one to two days. After all, I called the people who are specialists in Cat engines. They should have it fixed in no time. When we left on June 14 the engine was still not fixed. We did everything the mechanic and I could think of and nothing fixed the problem. (Maybe I should have stayed out of it) I finally told him to I couldn't afford to go any further and I would just run it as is. So we left and went to Friday Harbor to pick up friends for the weekend. This past Sunday when we got back to port I discovered alot of fuel in the drip pan under the other engine. One of the things we had done previously was to swap the fuel transfer pumps between the two engines and now this pump was leaking fuel. I tried twice to rebuild the pump waiting several days for parts. Finally I had them send me a used pump from Spokane and I put it on last night. The good engine is now working like it should again. But we still have a bad miss in the starboard engine. The only good news out of this whole mess is that NC Machine says they are not going to charge me for the work they have done so far as nothing has been fixed yet. I could not believe it!! As soon as they have a new plan in place they will call us to come back in for a second try.
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| New paint on decks |
In the meantime I have been doing some painting when the weather permits. I found a deck paint at Ace Hardware and painted most all of the decks a light beige color. They look brand new again.
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| Fresh paint on the anchor chain |
I also pulled all the anchor chain out of the chain locker and repainted some of the links on it. This is how I can tell how much chain I have out when I anchor. Every 25 feet some of the links are painted. There will be one group, two groups, or three groups of links painted and they will be different colors. So for example if I see three blue groups of links I know I have let out 200 feet of chain.
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| Boat races in Anacortes |
While we were in Anacortes they had their yearly Waterfront Festival. One of the activities is a boat building contest. Each team only has about $200.00 they can spend and one day to complete their boats. Then they are raced down a course they set up in the marina. All the boats are powered by hand. No motors. The winner was The Northwestern seen at the left in the picture. For those of you who watch Deadliest Catch you may recognize the name. We had a front row seat as they went right past the back of our boat. As you can see there were alot of people rooting for there favorite team.
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| Yacht "After Eight" |
We've seen a few mega yachts this year. This is a picture of the yacht "After Eight." The people who own it are from British Columbia and is 150 feet long. It was for sale on the internet a few years ago for $28,000000.
I guess that gets you guys up to date on what we've been doing. Will post again when there is some good news about the engine to report.Hope all is well with everyone. Love to get emails from you all.
Russ and Pat
