Was just wondering how the ‘panoramic’ button on me phone worked. If you can bend your head around it, you’ll see it’s the nearly completed engine room (upper) head lining.
ENVOY ABOUT A WEEK AWAY FROM CRUISING
Things are going great as we complete our second week since returning to Marmaris. Our only hiccup is that the eight new “Deka” batteries, imported from USA for our 12V house and 24V bow thruster battery banks are held up in Customs, and nobody can…
Traveling the east coast of Florida to Georgia
Since I lasted blogged we have been in Daytona, St Augustine, Jacksonville and now we are in St. Mary’s Georgia. Tomorrow if weather permits, we are hoping to get to St Simon’s GA. There are so many places we have not seen in GA even t…
Savannah, GA to Hilton Head, SC
Date April 14, 2012 Day 291Departure Isle of Hope Marina, Savannah, GA 7:35 amArrival Hilton Head Harbor Marina, Hilton Head, SC 12:10 p…
A Buyer’s Market When We Sell… A Seller’s Market When We Buy
Always seems to be the case, but after much negotiation/rejection/frustration/manipulation… We’ve prevailed and got a great deal on a small condo in an old warehouse in Downtown Memphis.Should be fun… Right on the Trolley Line and close to all thin…
findacrew testimonial
Once again Furthur is featured on the findacrew.net site. Take a look!
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Blue Holes of the Bahamas
We had a great opportunity, while Billy and Courtney were visiting, to take a tour of the Blue Holes of the Abacos. Until fairly recently I like so many others, was completely unaware of the structures we were walking on and the uniqueness of thi…
Deks Walk # 13
It was April 5th when we did this walk which now seems ages ago. Time is just flying too fast!
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DEKS Walk # 13
Walk # 13 was not only a walk along the coast, but also a walk back in time for Denise and Deena. As a teenager, Deena had gon…
Today was a good day
I got to spend some real quality time with Mr. Belt Sander. :-)I had some work to do around the thruster tube and especially on the side with the kefts on the outside. More fill and sanding.There’s still more filling and sanding to do before this secti…
Splash!! Heading North Take Two!
April 14,2012 – Finally all of our parts (prop,shaft,rudder,rudder bracket) came back this past week and the mechanics went to work promptly to reinstall all. The shaft turned out to be fine but the prop needed to be rebalanced,. The rudder, on the other hand, received the most damage. The rudder post was cracked and the bracket that connects it to the hydraulic system was cracked. The specialty shop had to fabricate a new post and bracket. All of that is what came back.
New Cutlass Bearing
Installing the Shaft
Installing the Propeller
Installed the rudder with it’s new Rudder Post
Coating the Rudder and Propeller with Prop Speed
Since we were up in the air anyway we decided to have the bottom of the boat repainted since it had not been done in almost 2 years. When it came out of the water it was in perfect shape with only a few barnacles on the bottom where we had run aground and scraped the paint off.
Summer Wind Heading Back to the Water
We were launched on Friday April 13th! Hey we’re not superstitious.. With the service manager and mechanic on board we took the Summer Wind out for a sea trial. A few adjustments were made while underway and then back to the dock.
Now all we had to do was close up our home, return the rental car and put a lot of stuff away.
About 3:00 o’clock we left the marina and started heading north. Watching the waters very closely so not to ruin the expensive job just finished. Mother nature was not cooperating and we were not very far from the marina when the sky became black and the wind started to howl. we did get the fringe rains from a huge storm that we found out later on the news produced “water spouts” farther south. We dropped the hook in the north part of Lake Worth and had a good nights rest even though the winds were blowing all night.
It is now Saturday and we made it to a beautiful little anchorage in Ft. Pierce,FL. The winds have been 15 to 20 knots all day from behind us and I (Dick) had to hand steer all day because the auto pilot finds it difficult to keep us straight in wave conditions from behind.
Every thing is running beautifully and we are going to try and make some long days. We are missing the MTOA rendezvous but may get there the last day. That one we will be playing by ear.
Keep watching for the latest news of the Summer Wind and her crew.
