Who Drained the NEUSE??

WOW what a weekend!! We had a terrific storm system pass through here Friday and Saturday. This system started in Texas, passed over Florida with killer tornadoes then up the eastern seaboard bringing rain, snow and wind.

Here we received rain and thunderstorms on Friday then B I G wind on Saturday. It was blowing 30kts at the Matthews point Marina with gusts to 56kts!! Most of it was from the SW so it blew the water out. This is the lowest I have ever seen in 16 years at the marina!! Temptation's deck was a good 4 feet below the finger pier. A real challenge to board the boat.

With the hatch cloths in place we took no water inside -- fortunately because there was a lot of rain. Saturday while the boat was rocking and rolling in the slip -- until the keel dropped 1.5 feet in the mud -- it was a challenge to work on the engine. I finally did get it back together but because of all the commotion and extreme shallowness I did not start it.

We spent the afternoon in the enclosed cockpit sipping a few beers and watching the wind machine to see what kind of gusts we were getting. The biggest was 56 kts. The enclosure did well but at some point the cloth hatch cover over the aft cabin hatch disappeared -- blew away. Well I get to do a little sewing now..

Sunday was Karen and mines 34th wedding anniversary so we celebrated Saturday night along with Jim and Barb Thompson by going to dinner at the Beaufort Grocery Company -- fine food as usual but ohh so crowded.

When we arrived back at the boat Saturday night the boats were even lower in the slips!! We were down a good 5 feet from the finger pier and Jim and Barb's SKAT was down nearly 6 feet.. Oh it was tough getting aboard. Because the water was so low I did not run the heat pump.

We did break in the new Karen Invention -- Bug Rugs!! this is a polar Fleece blanket and sheet sewn together to make a very comfortable personal sleeping encapsulation but nicer than a sleeping bag. The name comes from feeling like a "Snug bug in the rug".

Today I fired the main engine up --- should have been straight forward but when have I ever experienced straight forward... Yep turned the key and --- nothing... No click crank anything..

Well I started troubleshooting. I went over the relays and wires I cut the cable ties of of to remove the turbo charger. Ohh boy I found 2 wires not connected to anything!! I checked the schematic and these wires and relay are not even addressed in the schematic!! I did basic wiring tracing and found voltage at the ignition switch and then at the starter solenoid!! How come she no worky?? I slipped the wire back on the starter solenoid and it fired right up!!! Ohh boy. I looked for leaks and all looked fine. I wanted to stop it to check the fresh coolant level --- OHHH NOOO it won't stop!! We press the stop button but nothing happened -- just purrs along.. Good thing I didn't need to stop immediately.

Back to troubleshooting. I found the solenoid that is supposed to cut the fuel flow, I operated it manually and the engine shut down. Well good lesson learned.

Tracing wiring I found a relay covered in corrosion!! I CLEANED IT AND WORKED THE CONTACTS MANUALLY AND THEN THE SOLENOID OPERATED. Now I could start and stop the engine -- Ohh yes my new temperature gauge is working fine. It is a TELEX LIDO using the Yanmar sender. I had to use the Yanmar sender because Yanmar uses a bastard pipe thread on these senders. Something called BSPT -- British Steam Pipe Thread!!

Well overall a fine weekend and successful day but a whole lot more troubleshooting than expected.

Temptation is ready to GO... Next trip we will leave the slip. I'm not saying all projects are complete yet but she is working acceptable.

Ohh yes the stinking fresh water problems came back... That will be another story once I figure it out!!

Getting Better Every Week

WOW time has been flying. 2008 and almost through winter already.



Well Temptation has not done any sailing this winter but has been getting a lot of needed maintenance and upgrades. We have been down nearly every weekend working on the boat.



We have replaced most of the hoses. I have pulled and cleaned the heat exchangers on both Yanmars. The one on the Kohler Genset was the worst surprisingly since the engine hour meter was half that of the main engine. I had to pull the turbo charger off the main engine to get access to the heat exchanger there. The list of work done is extensive.



Upgrades!! A new ICOM 604 Marine VHF with Command Mic installed. The Auto Antenna tuner is installed correctly now. I have added a NMEA Multiplexer and have all instrumentation and 2 GPSs reporting to the PC with Coastal Explorer -- very cool.



Installed AMP meter to measure output of Solar Cells and Wind Generator.



Installed a water temp gauge to monitor the main engine.



Let's see -- installed a nice fan over the Nav Bench, replaced the finicky fluorescent lights in the main cabin with new ones. Replaced the main halyard winch with a new Anderson winch -- Ouch on that expense.



The gauges in the 2 water tanks and fuel tank were not working and all used different senders. I bit the bullet and installed a Hart Tank Tender and all the tanks are reporting to a single easy to read meter on the Nav Bench.

Replaced the Sink faucet in Aft Head -- the original was too tall and prevented one of the 2 cabinet doors from opening -- this gained us needed access to the cabinet and a smart looking faucet.



I'm sure I've missed other improvements. The amount of work is astounding. Every tasks takes 2 to 4 times what I expect it to take. Progress has been slow but very steady. Looking back now I'm impressed with all that we have done and this is on a boat that we thought needed very little!! Damn I hate to think what a "fixer upper" would have taken..



The task left now is to reassemble the partially dissasembled engines. Just waiting on some formed hoses from Torreson Marine. Again everything (deliveries included) take longer than expected. It is a good thing I'm not pressed for time -- yet!!



Ohh one of the most surprising jobs was the replacement of the impellor in the 15HP Yamaha outboard. Simple enough -- just $32 --- WRONG --- $250 dollars later and probably 30 hours labor..



That motor was all corroded inside. Impellor had never been touched since 1993. It started with breaking 2 of the 4 bolts that hold the impellor housing. To remove the housing and the broken bolts I had to go into the foot --- there the cover had to be removed in small pieces and that part alone was $100!! Everywhere I turned I encountered corroded parts inside that motor.



She is right now though.





Won't be long --- will be sailing again...

Temptation - 0 Sea Sprites - 2

October 20, 2007

Ohh it was a nice weekend. We started the morning by seeing Vic Copeland on Oconee off on his BIG adventure. Vic has finally gone cruising. Left this morning (at 7:05 am!! not on island time yet), hopes to be back in the spring of 2008. Now that's a plan.

We had chores planned for the weekend. I started the morning by investigating the battery chargers. They just don't seem to be fully charging the batteries. I have a pair of ProMariner ProTech 4s -- model 1240. They start off charging fine but then after a few hours they just float the batteries at around 12.50 volts or about a 70% charge. I followed the troubleshooting section and the batteries passed 2 of 3 steps but failed the float step. Hard to believe 2 identical battery chargers would have the same fault but they do... Now the troubleshooting guide had a great guidance in it. If the batteries fail the test -- replace an internal fuse -- I'm paraphrasing now -- if the fuse is fine then the circuit board is defective and we don't repair them. Contact customer service for geat deal on a new charger... Ohhh boy -- gosh they are just $380 chargers EACH!!

Well onto the fresh water problem -- A G A I N. The Forward tank had worked just fine until empty but the Aft tank would not work acceptably. When the pump came on it would lose the prime. If you let it run for a minute or two with the spigot open it finally pump up.

I pumped the tank out and then Blew air by mouth into the hose until the air flowed freely. I partially filled the tank and it worked fine. I filled both tanks and they both worked ok -- go figure. Nothing positively identified or fixed so -- it'll be back.

Ohh my favorte reading fluorescent lamp would not work last night -- Main Salon Port side near forward bulkehead. I took the cover off to troubleshoot -- hmmm looking for some bare connections to test for power I noticed a silver cylinder near the on off switch. Gosh (not the word actually used) that is aluminum foil and it looks like the imprint of a fuse under it -- nooo can't be!! Sure enough was!! See picture.

Well thank you previous owner. You just made the next component down the line the new fuse and it is NOT replaceable. Grrrr.

The last job of the day was to properly replace a broken vent screw in the fuel filter housing for the generator. This is a Racor 220 filter that originally came with a plastic vent screw. Well the previous owner had overtightened it and broken the head off of the screw. Then it looks like some clear glue had been poured over it to seal it. Well it didn't seal too well and that is why the generator needs to be bled so often. I drilled a small hole in the plastic screw shank and tried and "Easy out". The material was too soft and it just bit in deeper. I then drove a screw driver blade in it and just made it wider. I then picked off the glue and the remains of an O-ring and drove an even wider screw driver blade into it and that allowed me to unscrew it. I replaced with a new proper fitting metal screw from Racor and it is working fine now.

That was enough for one day. Ity was Heinekin 30 and time to sit back and enjoy a few beers and humice and visit with the Thompson's.

All in all a pretty productive day but now a week to sit with the catalogs to decide what to do about the battery chargers and fluorescent lamp fixture or maybe fixtures -- the other 3 fluorescent lamps seem finicky in their operation. They turn off by themselves and you have to "rap" them to make them come back on. I think I'll just bite the bullet and replace all 4.

VAMPIRES on the Neuse River

Sunday September 23, 2007 – I should get a Red Cross Donors Pin

Karen and I had a nice ride the boat Friday evening arriving a little before 8pm. We unloaded the car and headed for the boat – almost immediately we were descended upon by large voracious mosquitoes. Karen had long pants and shirt on and they just bit right through it. We did a hurry unload and only made the one trip to the boat – the mosquitoes were terrible. I ventured out later around 9:30pm but they were still very bad.

I was up early Saturday morning to get the chores done before going to play at South River today. Top of the agenda was to De-Floridaize the boat. I received my registration number plate from boatnumberplate.com for the dinghy and I finished the board with the documentation number for Temptation.

I started by dropping the dinghy into the water about 7:30am – damn – those mosquitoes were still at it. 1 – 2 – 3 bites immediately while standing on the deck!! They showed no mercy. I retreated back into the boat. I installed the Coast Guard Documentation board in the Nav Station area. I then installed the labels on the rope clutches identifying all the lines led back to the cockpit.

About 8:30am I started on the dinghy again and dry fit the boat number plates --- ohh boy. These things are one piece assemblies that contain the entire registration number and a spot for the registration decal. They fit perfectly over the old iron on numbers. Great I won’t have to remove the old – just glue over them.

It was quite damp with a heavy dew so I wanted to wait till things dried before using the humidity sensitive contact cement. We puttered around on the boat and put things away. Then about 10am I checked the weather online and looked at the weather radar to be sure nothing was in the offing – and it wasn’t – just a few showers well out to sea and heading East – away from us. I pulled the dinghy up in the dinghy dock and cleaned the area to receive the number plates. I masked the area and wiped everything down with toluene. The sky looked pretty good with a lot of puffy clouds. I put the glue on the portside of the dinghy, the number plates, then the starboard side of the dinghy. I had no sooner made the last stroke with the brush when I felt a drop of rain --- one dark cloud overhead – blue everywhere else!! What kind of deal is this!! I scrambled for some plastic bags and ripped them open and covered the fresh glue as the rain intensified. I covered both sides and slid the number plates under the dinghy – ohh it’s raining hard now – out of ONE CLOUD!! Aaaaaack!

I settle down and go back to the boat to complain to Karen. I check the weather radar and there are numerous pop up showers in the area. No general pattern just little tiny red dots sprinkled across Eastern NC and more appearing. Grrrr!! It stops raining after about 15 minutes. We go back to the dinghy and survey the damage. The boat number plates are fine. The glued areas on the dinghy each have some water droplets in the glue. I blot them up with a paper towel. Hmmm no too bad. Ohh what the hell – we affix the plates to the dinghy. They look good and adhesion looks good. Only time will really tell. Oh I’m just disgusted with this weather.

I then remove the Florida registration sticker from the dinghy and then back on Temptation I remove the Florida Registration numbers and sticker from the bow. It went pretty well but the adhesive removal was a pain. Even the 3M Adhesive remover took a lot of elbow grease.

It’s about 1pm when we have lunch – the sky is dark to the south and thunder is rumbling.. We decide to wait till 3pm to decide whether to go to South River or not – the rest of the gang has already gone.

The weather never improved. The mosquitoes would attack whenever we walked around the clubhouse – the worse I have ever seen here at Matthews Point --- it has got to be worse at South River!! We decided to remain at the dock. We grilled a nice beef tenderloin on the Barbecue grill for dinner – it turned out GREAT. We had a 2 person party. After dinner and cleaning up we had some Baileys and mini éclairs --- Ummmm good. Spent the rest of the evening sipping a Rum Swizzle and reading the book – Hurricanes Wake -- great book.

Sunday morning dawned beautiful but still the voracious mosquitoes were at it early.. Damn those things.

I wanted to go up the mast and inspect the deck light and steaming light at the first spreader. I wanted to use the anchor windlass to get up there too. I set it up using the Main Halyard re-routed to the windlass. Karen operated the switch and tailed the line. We did a couple of practice runs just a few feet off the deck. Good thing – she needed to learn how to keep the line from wrapping both going up and down.

The trip to the spreader was uneventful. The assembly looks bad – it will all have to be replaced. I played with the bulbs but no luck. I’ll replace the whole thing on a cooler day – it was already 85 degrees at 9:30am!!

Back on the boat we gave tours to Steve and Debra, I went down and Gave Sward a hand troubleshooting here TV antenna hook up – there was a short in one connector and she had a splitter on the wrong side of the preamplifier.

After lunch Vic returned from South River and I talked to him – he said the mosquitoes were worse down there last night – good thing we didn’t go. I told him that I had some cracked welds on the companion way stairs and needed a recommendation for a stainless steel welder. He said he knows a great one – “Stainless Steel Fred’ Fred Lindow in Beaufort. He offered to take the steps to him for me – what a BUD… I took him up on that.

We cleaned up and I removed the steps – Vic’s buddy John offered to take them in his truck since they were a very tight fit in Vic’s car. I love these boaters.

We left the Marina around 4:30pm Even though we didn’t make South river we had a very productive and enjoyable weekend on the boat … and Ohhh Yessss – the water system worked flawlessly all weekend on Temptation --- don’t touch a thing now.

Temptation and Fresh Water GALORE!!

Sunday September 16, 2007 Matthews Point Marina

Today began cool and refreshing – finally a break in the heat wave that set records in August and September –

The morning started with the inability to connect to the internet – this happens in about one in three trips with this Beacon WiFi. Oh well – just the motivation I need to start on the chores. After my usual breakfast I went ahead and shortened spring lines and moved fenders to move Temptation about 1 foot backwards in the slip. It looks like in real shallow water the anchor/bowsprit might hit the dock – not now. Whew – worked up a sweat early today.

Well the water system had worked flawlessly since yesterday. I was now drawing directly from the FWD tank. I reconnected the FWD tank to the selector assembly and tried it again. This is easier said than done. That damn fitting is between major hoses and no room to swing a wrench – took more than 20 minutes to reconnect.

Well it seemed to still work just fine. Not bad considering all I did was blow into the tank after emptying it – I guess this needs more study.

I was curious how much water this tank held so I tried the inverse approach to measuring the capacity. I timed the number of seconds to fill a gallon jug – about 7 seconds. WE then emptied the tank and filled it while timing – wow – 15 minutes 54 seconds. That worked out to some 119 gallons!! We thought it was another 75 gallon tank. Thus between the 2 tanks we are carrying 200 gallons of water when we thought it was only 150. Nice surprise .. Now can I reliably pump all that water??? Time will tell.

I filled the AFT tank but played no more with it today.

Another discovery today!! While waiting for the tank to run dry I was inspecting the engine and I found the alternator belt VERY LOOSE. I mean so loose I could turn the pulley under it by hand. Hmmmm this might explain why the alternator did no work when we left Wrightsville Beach a few weeks ago but then worked the next day when we left Morehead City Yacht Basin Marina… Think about it. When I left Wrightsville after spending a long day/night on the hook the batteries were deeply discharged. Thus probably why the alternator did not generate electricity – too much load for the slipping belt -- WOW great luck it was so loose it didn’t burn up!!!

Now when we went into the Marina to charge batteries all night there was virtually no load on the alternator in the morning – thus it charged some. Makes sense at least.

The belt adjuster was all the way out. Nothing left. I removed the belt and found the mounting bolts all loose!! The belt did not look very good. I found a new replacement and installed it. A new belt gives 1 inch of remaining adjustment. We fired the engine up and tested and it looked good. The belt got pretty warm so it might still be slipping a bit but man it felt tight. Something else to monitor.

I was on a roll. So I dug the silicone gasket out of the port side salon hatch and replaced with fresh clear silicon. Hopefully this will stop the leak without having to remove the entire Lexan lens.

We had a hurried lunch then packed and left the Marina just before 1pm to catch the Ferry to Oriental – need to check on Luna Sea and remove a few things. We went the back way and just as we reached the gravel rode we say a 4 wheeler stuck in the mud at the entrance. There was a huge pool of water in the road and he had tried to go around and got stuck in the mud. We turned and went the long way – rather quickly – it was going to be close. Wow we got to the Ferry at exactly 1:13pm and they had already loaded. They were just about to remove the ramp when they loaded us last. Then one minute later they left – actually a little early by my calculation.


It was a fine ride over with a beautiful clear blue sky and nice cool breeze.. We visited Luna Sea. She is doing fine but oh so lonely. I feel bad but what can you do.

We had a nice ride home and planned next weeks outing… A big Raft up at South River next Saturday to celebrate Ralph’s birthday. Hey any excuse is a good one for a raft up. We plan to play next weekend – enough work for a while.

Fair Winds You All..

The BIG WHOOOOPS!!

September 15, 2007 -- Matthews Point Marina

If you have been following this thread you know I have been having a very pesky time with the fresh water system on Temptation. This weekend we allocated all day Saturday to resolve this issue.

I was going to take all the time I needed to fully understand what is going on and hopefully correct it. I brought a big bag of plumbing fittings and hoses with plans to isolate and test various parts of the system.

I was anxious to get started Saturday morning. I waited for Karen to fix her breakfast and free the galley area to use for access to the plumbing. I installed the new “lifting key” in the Main Halyard winch while waiting.

Finally – near 9am she left to get dressed. I jumped on it and planned where to start. Hmmmmm let’s just break this down in to two parts. The input side i.e. tank, piping to selection valve assembly, then to the pump, and then just a straight hose from the pump to sink, thus eliminating the entire distribution system including accumulator and water heater.

I just need to take the output hose from the pump off of the qest fitting and add my longer length of hose. I undid the clamp on the hose and pulled it from the barb fitting. Oh NO – immediately I was hit in the face with a strong stream of water!! The pump came on and the water just soaked me and sprayed in the face – but hey I’m holding the pressure hose and point towards the bilge. Everything including me is getting soaked. Hell I’m holding the hose down and I’m still sprayed in the face – I can’t see!! What to do? Run and shut the pump down?? Call for help – Karen?? I’m confused. Finally the water stream stops hitting me in the face and my vision clears – the water is pumping out the hose I’m still holding and is directed behind the engine to the bilge -- Ohhh the barb I pulled the hose off of – still pointing towards me --- ahhhh the system was not discharged – me BAD – thus when I pulled the hose off the entire 2 gallon contents of the accumulator had to discharge – into my face and under 20 – 40 PSI!!! Me Bad!! Embarrassed and soak and wet too – Ohh and that engine compartment – everything soak and wet. But hey I may have stumbled across an emergency fire extinguisher for the engine compartment???

Ohhh well dry off, cleanup and now BEGIN..

I first pumped out the Aft tank. I wanted to measure how much water it had so I timed a one gallon delivery in the sink – it was about 14 seconds. I topped off the tank and pumped it out. It all went – i.e. no problem on the input side of this tank. Oh – and the capacity is about 77 gallons. I then did the same for the Fwd tank – just like all along – nothing adds up or behaves the same. This tank pumped very slow. One gallon took 1 minute 22 seconds. The water came out with air bubbles too – what’s going on here??. It took better than 2 hours to pump it out but it all came out.

I thought the problem might be with the selector valve assembly so I cut some cable ties and disconnected the pipe from the valve assembly. I then went directly from tank to pump. I put about 10 gallons in the tank and tried to pump it out. No difference!! Once the tank was empty I then tried to blow back through the pick up tube – WOW it was hard .. There must be an obstruction… I blew again and again and finally I could blow through. It got easier too.. I put another 10 gallons in the tank and pumped it out – this time it took about 23 seconds – slower than the Aft but acceptable and no bubbles. I then connected the output of the pump to the distribution system and tried it -- Hey worked pretty well. I then filled about 40 gallons into the tank and we will just use it today and see what happens.

Long story short – it worked fine all day and never failed to pump. Now what does this say!!

This took us to lunch. We had a nice one – home made Tuna Salad. The rain stopped so we went topsides and used my little webbing invention to grease the sail track -- actually a Dry lubricant called Sail Kote. Once we had it lubed we thought, “Lets take the main up”… Well it was still hard and with the new part in the winch -- it still doesn’t feel right. The winch has a binding feel to it and the line stripper is not working right. Damn

Well with the sail up we then investigated the Dutchman control lines. There was little wind so we decided to just jump in and change all the control lines. Well it’s done but it was a bigger job than expected. We had to raise and lower the pennant several times and it was hot – we worked till after 4pm. We had all the lines installed but they need adjustment. We will wait till on anchor and in a gentle breeze to do that.

We showered and relaxed a bit then Buck joined us a little after 6pm and I drove to the Sanitary Seafood Restaurant in Morehead for dinner.

A fine dinner then back on the boat for an evening of reading and relaxing. The “Big Whooops” nearly forgotten.

The BIG WHOOOOPS

September 15, 2007 -- Matthews Point Marina

If you have been following this thread you know I have been having a very pesky time with the fresh water system on Temptation. This weekend we allocated all day Saturday to resolve this issue.

I was going to take all the time I needed to fully understand what is going on and hopefully correct it. I brought a big bag of plumbing fittings and hoses with plans to isolate and test various parts of the system.

I was anxious to get started Saturday morning. I waited for Karen to fix her breakfast and free the galley area to use for access to the plumbing. I installed the new “lifting key” in the Main Halyard winch.

Finally – near 9am she left to get dressed. I jumped on it and planned where to start. Hmmmmm let’s just break this down in to two parts. The input side i.e. tank, piping to selection valve assembly, then to the pump, and then just a straight hose from the pump to sink, thus eliminating the entire distribution system including accumulator and water heater.

I just need to take the output hose from the pump off of the qest fitting and add my longer length of hose. I undid the clamp on the hose and pulled it from the barb fitting. Oh NO – immediately I was hit in the face with a strong stream of water!! The pump came on and the water just soaked me and sprayed in the face – but hey I’m holding the pressure hose and point towards the bilge. Everything including me is getting soaked. Hell I’m holding the hose down and I’m still sprayed in the face – I can’t see!! What to do? Run and shut the pump down?? Call for help – Karen?? I’m confused. Finally the water stream stops hitting me in the face and my vision clears – the water is pumping out the hose I’m still holding and is directed behind the engine to the bilge -- Ohhh the barb I pulled the hose off of – still pointing towards me --- ahhhh the system was not discharged – me BAD – thus when I pulled the hose off the entire 2 gallon contents of the accumulator had to discharge – into my face and under 20 – 40 PSI!!! Me Bad!! Embarrassed and soak and wet too – Ohh and that engine compartment – everything soak and wet. But hey I may have stumbled across an emergency fire extinguisher for the engine compartment???

Ohhh well dry off, cleanup and now BEGIN..

I first pumped out the Aft tank. I wanted to measure how much water it had so I timed a one gallon delivery in the sink – it was about 14 seconds. I topped off the tank and pumped it out. It all went – i.e. no problem on the input side of this tank. Oh – and the capacity is about 77 gallons. I then did the same for the Fwd tank – just like all along – nothing adds up or behaves the same. This tank pumped very slow. One gallon took 1 minute 22 seconds. The water came out with air bubbles too – what’s going on here??. It took better than 2 hours to pump it out but it all came out.

I thought the problem might be with the selector valve assembly so I cut some cable ties and disconnected the pipe from the valve assembly. I then went directly from tank to pump. I put about 10 gallons in the tank and tried to pump it out. No difference!! Once the tank was empty I then tried to blow back through the pick up tube – WOW it was hard .. There must be an obstruction… I blew again and again and finally I could blow through. It got easier too.. I put another 10 gallons in the tank and pumped it out – this time it took about 23 seconds – slower than the Aft but acceptable and no bubbles. I then connected the output of the pump to the distribution system and tried it -- Hey worked pretty well. I then filled about 40 gallons into the tank and we will just use it today and see what happens.

Long story short – it worked fine all day and never failed to pump. Now what does this say!!

This took us to lunch. We had a nice one – home made Tuna Salad. The rain stopped so we went topsides and used my little webbing invention to grease the sail track -- actually a Dry lubricant called Sail Kote. Once we had it lubed we thought, “Lets take the main up”… Well it was still hard and with the new part in the winch -- it still doesn’t feel right. The winch has a binding feel to it and the line stripper is not working right. Damn

Well with the sail up we then investigated the Dutchman control lines. There was little wind so we decided to just jump in and change all the control lines. Well it’s done but it was a bigger job than expected. We had to raise and lower the pennant several times and it was hot – we worked till after 4pm. We had all the lines installed but they need adjustment. We will wait till on anchor and in a gentle breeze to do that.

We showered and relaxed a bit then Buck joined us a little after 6pm and I drove to the Sanitary Seafood Restaurant in Morehead for dinner.

A fine dinner then back on the boat for an evening of reading and relaxing. The “Big Whooops” nearly forgotten.