It was time to cast of lines and head out for a week in my Canoe Cove 42 that I purchased six month ago. It has very few steps so it's easy on the Admiral's bad knees. I spent the last four months upgrading all the electronics, wiring, etc.
Turned the key on the port engine and.. groon. Barly turned over one time. Voltage was ok and I checked the electrolite and it indicated a full charge on all six cells. Darn, I've replaced all the battieries in this boat except the starting batteries. Back to the helm and toggled on the parallel switch bring the starting battieries together. Both engines start right up. Nice thing about these detroit 8.2s is there is not cranking, they fire off right now. Spent the first night at Sucia and all systems are working well. The wind piped up late Sunday but my Super Max anchor held fast as it always does. Kind of a new experience sleeping in the forward cabin as out last boat was an aft cabin. With the wind and the waves it can be quite noisy and bumpy up front. Around 2:00 AM I got up, went to the salon and slept there. My dog went into the second stateroom which was slightly aft of the main one. She refused to sleep in the forward cabin for another four days even though the remaining time out was quiet.
Monday morning we motored over the Roche and spent three days there. Tuesday my old boat motored right by me and didn't even wave. Thursday morning we heading off to Anacortes for two days. Turned the start key, nothing happened. Opps, forgot to hit the parallel swith. Hit the switch and... dead. Now both starting batteries are bad. I went to the "basement" and made up a three foot jumper cable and connected the starting battieries to the house. That got us up and going and off we went.
I planned to arrive at Anacortes around 12:30 as we were using our Yachtclubs reciprocal moorage and check out time was 12:00. Pulled in around 12:40, down the narrow fairway to the designated area and, nuts, a boat in the slip. Pulled into an unused area and prayed that who ever occupied that area wasn't coming back soon. Got out of my boat and talked to the guy that was in the area they assigned to me. He told me he didn't have to vacate until noon. I reminded him that is was now 1:00. Anyway, he finally left around 2:30 and in we went. We do like Anacortes and got on their waiting list for moorage. Should be around two years. Anyone want to buy a 46' slip in Semiahmoo?
Two days flew by and we cast of lines Saturday morning at 10:30. I called the marina to let them know I had vacated the slip. They seemed shocked but grateful at this. I thought everybody did this. I quess not. After being well clear of the marina I pushed the throttles forward. Engines weren't in sinc and the port engine had tons of black smoke coming out the pipe. Back to idle and rechecked the guages and all showed well. As long as I stayed below 2200 RPM no smoke. So there I stayed going around 8.5 knots until arriving back in Semiahmoo. $$$Machanic$$$ is arriving this Wednesday to evaluate. Most likely a turbo issue.
Dave
Turned the key on the port engine and.. groon. Barly turned over one time. Voltage was ok and I checked the electrolite and it indicated a full charge on all six cells. Darn, I've replaced all the battieries in this boat except the starting batteries. Back to the helm and toggled on the parallel switch bring the starting battieries together. Both engines start right up. Nice thing about these detroit 8.2s is there is not cranking, they fire off right now. Spent the first night at Sucia and all systems are working well. The wind piped up late Sunday but my Super Max anchor held fast as it always does. Kind of a new experience sleeping in the forward cabin as out last boat was an aft cabin. With the wind and the waves it can be quite noisy and bumpy up front. Around 2:00 AM I got up, went to the salon and slept there. My dog went into the second stateroom which was slightly aft of the main one. She refused to sleep in the forward cabin for another four days even though the remaining time out was quiet.
Monday morning we motored over the Roche and spent three days there. Tuesday my old boat motored right by me and didn't even wave. Thursday morning we heading off to Anacortes for two days. Turned the start key, nothing happened. Opps, forgot to hit the parallel swith. Hit the switch and... dead. Now both starting batteries are bad. I went to the "basement" and made up a three foot jumper cable and connected the starting battieries to the house. That got us up and going and off we went.
I planned to arrive at Anacortes around 12:30 as we were using our Yachtclubs reciprocal moorage and check out time was 12:00. Pulled in around 12:40, down the narrow fairway to the designated area and, nuts, a boat in the slip. Pulled into an unused area and prayed that who ever occupied that area wasn't coming back soon. Got out of my boat and talked to the guy that was in the area they assigned to me. He told me he didn't have to vacate until noon. I reminded him that is was now 1:00. Anyway, he finally left around 2:30 and in we went. We do like Anacortes and got on their waiting list for moorage. Should be around two years. Anyone want to buy a 46' slip in Semiahmoo?
Two days flew by and we cast of lines Saturday morning at 10:30. I called the marina to let them know I had vacated the slip. They seemed shocked but grateful at this. I thought everybody did this. I quess not. After being well clear of the marina I pushed the throttles forward. Engines weren't in sinc and the port engine had tons of black smoke coming out the pipe. Back to idle and rechecked the guages and all showed well. As long as I stayed below 2200 RPM no smoke. So there I stayed going around 8.5 knots until arriving back in Semiahmoo. $$$Machanic$$$ is arriving this Wednesday to evaluate. Most likely a turbo issue.
Dave