A good day

[Rick D]

Spent today at the boat... pulled my nemesis Westerbeke out, reassembled my port engine, installed my (new to me) vector AC unit, just took delivery of my new Fusion speakers, will be firing up the engines for the first time this year tomorrow, pulling the winter shrink wrap off tomorrow as well... and just got home after finishing my 4th long island iced tea with my wife and next door neighbor... life as of right now is good.

--Rick

 

[Audrey II]

Glad to hear you are making headway, but you do know it's the middle of June right? I have been in since the middle of March that's 3 months of missed boating.

 

[Rick D]

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Originally posted by Audrey II

...but you do know it's the middle of June right?

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Is it?[:-spin]

March... even April is pretty early... for me at least. It's not uncommon to have snow in April... although this year was the mildest I could remember.

Most of the boats here went in June 1. For 4 weeks I've been asking the yard to give me a date they could get the forklift over to my boat so they could haul the genny out as I was not putting the boat in until it came out. Every week it's been "next week". When I ultimately decided it was coming out I dismantled quite a bit off the port engine to get at it. On Friday when they didn't call to say they had the forklift ready, I went to HomeDepot, bought 2x6's and bolts and within 3 hours on Friday night built a rig over the engine compartment to hoist it out. On Saturday with the help of a come along and my father, we lifted it out ourselves. My engine is back together, will run both of them today, put the anodes on and pull the tarp off.

One week from tomorrow, I expect to be in water.

--Rick

 

[Billylll]

Other then potential deck cracking from ice or overloading the vessel from snow it's fun to be on the boat when it's snowing Rick. We were very late getting in this year. I'm usually in the 1st week of March and the last boat out about a week before Christmas. It was an extremely warm winter down here in south Jersey but because this was the 1st year I wasn't with the boat when it was pulled I had a large number of problems (mostly minor) from the freshwater system not being properly winterized. I would hate to think of the number of problems if it was our usual winter.
Bill