rondds
Well-Known Member
- Oct 3, 2006
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- Boat Info
- 2001 380DA
- Engines
- Merc 8.1s (2008)...Hurth ZF 63 V-drives...WB 7.0 BCGD (2013), Garmin 8208 & 740 MFDs, GMR 24xHD dome
i smell a new blog!!!!
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....Also, Jack wanted me to remind you that the Phillies are now only a half a game behind the Muts,......!
How come you go in LEI instead of Barnegat Bay inlet?
OK...I'm a day late, but we made it. Ran into all kinds of issues, including some homesite things that I needed to work out.
We're in C45.....and just got back from a delicious Italian dinner at Russo's.
We left the home dock at 8:30AM. On the way out of my development, I ran over a submerged day stick. When I went to back off of the stick, I ran over a mounded shoal of sand/muck. I got on plane, and ran for about 1/8 of a mile and the port motor was climbing towards 200def F. I came down from plane, and shut down the port motor, and had the admiral go in a circle....which was easy on just one motor.....while I went down into the ER. No water leaking anywhere...that's good....but I pull the strainer on the port motor and I've never seen so much mud in a strainier. It was like making a sand castle. I knew this wasn't going to be a quickie, so I came back up and set the anchor. About 45 minutes later, both strainers were squeaky clean and I confirmed good water flow and normal temps....180deg F. I go to pull up the anchor and somethings not right. I finally get the anchor to break water, and I've somehow managed to snag an errant, none marked/ line of crab pots....15 minutes later, I got the anchor secured and washed down and I'm on my way to Wildwood. I decide to stay in the ICW to LEI instead of going out of Barnegat inlet just to keep an eye on the temps a little longer. We hit the first no wake zone off of LBI and the Green heads are swarming.....we must have killed 200 green heads. As we're just about to get on plane south of Beach Haven Yacht club, I hear some poor soul calling Sea Tow...he ran aground at the infamous ICW 116....I thinking the way my luck is going, I better keep a good eye out in the area. We break the LEI and I set two waypoints on the plotter and engage the AP.....everything is going just great and I'm making 22 knots at 2285RPMs....Sweeeeet!
I get to my slip in Schooners and start to wash down and the admiral comes up to tell me that there is water all over the carpet by the galley sink......I look under the cabinet and the P-pipe came off while she was washing some fruit. I put that back together and get out my shop vac to dry out the rug....while I'm there, I figure I better check the sumps....sure enough, the aft sump is on the blink. I pull out my spare sump box...yes I have a spare sump....and wire in the new box....Rugs are drying and the new sump is working so I go back topside and finish washing the hull.
I just finished checking everything and everything is working.....again.
See you guys tomorrow morning..
My 8 year old daughter and I are going to be there Friday thru Sunday morning this weekend. (Wife is taking our older daughter back to Univ of Pitt so it's just the two of us. The ever wise and cautious admiral has some 'concern' about just the two of us going on the run from great Egg Inlet down to Cape May inlet alone.) We'll be near the fuel dock with the smaller boats but look forward to meeting some of you this weekend.
Gerry....did you make it down? We never got to meet!
We have you right where we want you. Remember last year?This would be a good time for a father/son talk about Ahead vs Behind.....:grin: