Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Delay, delay, plus frozen water, and calling for up to 4" of snow...........

Disgusting, to put it mildly.  We are still in Rock Hall at the public landing awaiting final touches.  Last evening, it was discovered the Glendenning Sycncronizers were never ordered.  Now we have to wait to ship them in an overnight rush.  Expecting them Thursday evening and installation Friday.  Once again we are going to call upon Mr. Dick Wilson of Wilson Fabricating.  If you recall, Dick designed and built the V Struts and more recently removed the motors and built new motor mounts.  Dick then aligned the motors to less than .003".  Dick agreed to help Scott Hyland so we can get the entire job completed in one day.  The sycronizers make the both drive engines run at the same RPM which makes for less vibration and increased efficiency.  What I really want them for is to operate only one throttle to run the boat.  On our last trip down the inland coastal waterway I wore myself out keeping the motors sycncronized through two throttles all the result of passing of slower boats, speed zones, no wake zones, bridge closures and other distractions.

Matt set up his carpenters shop on the pier

Ben Hicks sitting on the Throne and is declared "King of the Boat".

Scotty has set up his shop in the salon over the generator.
Lea set up her shop in her bunk to take a nap.

2 comments:

  1. When do you expect to leave Rock Hall?

    GOOD LUCK!!!

    Robb

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  2. Sorry we did not respond sooner. Blogspot makes it very difilcult to realize when we have received comments. As you will see from our last few posts, we are iced in with problems that require us to pull the boat...again. I cannot imagine getting away before Mid-March. If you could go online and read our April article in Prop Talk magazine, you would see we are considering changing our cruise plans. We may add several more thousand miles to our trip and take in America's Great Loop before we head to the Bahamas and Caribbean. Stay tuned. We will be making our plans in the several several weeks.

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