Month: February 2023

Up at dawn, breakfast of scrambled cheesy eggs and tea. Head up a creek to the closest fuel dock and fill the tank and jerry cans, I leave the dock at 8:30 am and head for the ICW, just mindlessly following the rivers, at around noon I see a bridge ahead of me and it… Continue reading Out of my head? [Jun 23, 2022]

I’m up at dawn, quick breakfast, and off we go to Ponce Inlet and the Atlantic. Depending on the weather I could head to Brunswick, Georgia, or Charleston, SC. I won’t know for sure until I see what kind of speed we are making. We make it out Ponce at 8:30, the winds are 10… Continue reading Ah, sailing… Beware what you wish for. [Jun 21, 2022]

Breakfast of Tea and ham lunch meat. At 7:30 I pull anchor and head north again, hoping to reach New Smyrna Beach and exit Ponce Inlet into the Atlantic, there is a weather window that will allow me a couple of days sailing north. As the day moves by, it’s getting clear that I won’t… Continue reading So far so good. [Jun 20, 2022]

Breakfast of tea and peanut butter crackers. At 7:30 am I pulled anchor and headed north on the ICW, by 7:30 pm that evening I anchor just off the ICW near Cocoa Beach, today everything worked flawlessly. Since I decided to sell the boat, Aine seems to be resisting at every opportunity, now I’ve never… Continue reading Let’s see if she holds together, in shore. [Jun 19, 2022]

a cup of tea and a 3-egg omelet for breakfast. I put on my miner’s headlamp and dig into the engine compartment, I find that of the three screws holding the propeller shaft flange to the V-Drive flange, only one screw remains, it’s bent, the other two are missing, and they all have unscrewed themselves… Continue reading Really, just day 2 of the trip, and this? [Jun 18, 2022]

Up early and getting to the boat by 9:00 am, we installed the new transmission/V-drive after a lot of grunting and groaning, banged knuckles, and choice words. Next, I reattached the propeller shaft, the cooling hoses, electrical ground wires, and shift cables, now we can see if all this work and time is worth it.… Continue reading Well, let’s see what we will see. [Jun 17, 2022]

Up at 6:30 am, quick breakfast, and back on the road by 7:00 am. I arrived at the boat around 8:00 pm and unloaded everything, next I head back to Ft. Lauderdale for the night where I’ll leave my truck, I’ll have my brother drive me up to the boat and we can install the… Continue reading Go time again. [Jun 16, 2022]

I take the transmission-V Drive out of my truck and place it on my workbench. I unbolt the transmission from the V-Drive and test the transmission. When it is in neutral I can turn the input and output shafts without any resistance, but as soon as I put it into forward or reverse it jams… Continue reading Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat. [Jun 13 – Jun 15, 2022]

I drive back to New Bern, NC, and arrive at 10:00 pm, another long day.

I awaken at 7:00 am, I make breakfast and by 8:00 I’m calling TowBoat US, they say they will be here to get me around 10:00 am and that it will take about 3 ½ hours to get to the marina, I’ll be handed off to another TowBoat further north. They arrive about 10:00 and… Continue reading 1 step forward, 100 steps back. [Jun 11, 2022]