Getting close to Leaving

After our busy weekend, we had a quite Monday. We did some business, checked with three local marinas about the availability of winter storage when we come back in the fall and arranged to have our important mail forwarded to us here before we leave.

A warranty claim was filed with Yanmar on our overheating problem. Since they don’t have an authorized dealer in the area they authorized Scott the president of Wahoo Marine to look into the problem and see if he could fix it.

One of the other boats Wahoo sold this spring is a 59 foot 16 wide that went to two brothers and their wives. The four McGees plan to spend the next two years living aboard and traveling on the boat. Since they are planning to stay in this area for a few months before heading south they took a slip at another marina just down the way. They are just outside the office where we checked on winter storage so we walked over and visited since we had meet them at the factor but had not seen them since nor seen their completed boat. They indicated that Scott was coming by that evening to help them move the boat back to Polestar where we are so they could have a windlass like ours installed.

About 5:30 the McGees and Scott came into the harbor. We help get them tied up and then Scott can over to look at our engine. After getting a protective shield over the alternator belt off , it was obvious what the problem was, a coolant hose was installed or had shifted so that it was rubbing on the belt. It had cut a hole in the hose causing a coolant leak thus the overheating. Scott called for a replacement hose to be overnighted and it should be here Wednesday.

After that we joined the McGees on their boat for a bite to eat. Tonight they were here for a grilled turkey breast sandwich.

Today was busy with making lists of all the little things that need to be done before we leave then trying to cross off as many as possible. Diana also had time to get her paints outs and start on a small new painting.

Tomorrow will be a last trip to town for final shopping then Thursday will be laundry, fill the water tank, test drive the fixed engine and everything else on the do before departure list. The water levels are going down, the weather forecast looks good and assuming the engine is running we plan to leave for Lake Barkley first thing Friday AM.