Back in bussiness

7/12/2006: 4miles; 1 hrs; I got everything finished in dry dock. I can now say “baton down the hatches”. I have three hatches, 2 up front and one in the back. They were just kinda sitting on there openings. I wanted them storm worthy or underwater worthy.

The other modifications were working out well also. CO and I were just sailing back and forth on bogie channel. The wind was from the east and it was about 10 knots. We practiced tacking a little and CO was tired from a big day of swimming and walking, s owe decided to go in.

I had been wanting CO to learn everything on the boat in case something happened to me and she has been doing really good. Well today she was going to motor us back to dock. We lowered everything and I wanted her to motor around a little to get use to the motor. On the way in the motor just died. It wouldn’t crank back up. We were about a 100 yards from the canal where we kept the boat.

I really was not in the mood to try to paddle through the gate that keeps sea grass out of the canal. So we just drifted over to this canal that use to be a resort/ yacht club. I anchored the boat in protected waters so it’s not getting hit by the wind waves. A storm was blowing in so things were getting rough.

We got out and walked back to the jeep. We were both tired and hungry, so I wanted to get CO home to rest and eat and maybe after I eat I won’t feel so cranky about the boat situation. I went back and got the motor running after I pulled the spark plug and cleaned it. I guess the motor somehow got super flooded and fowled the spark.

The boat got back to dock so it was a successful trip.