It's been a while since I have posted. This year was very challenging for personal reasons, but I'm hoping for a better spring and summer.
I stored in water, which ended up being fortuitous given all I've been through, so I was able to go down to the boat yesterday and fire her up. I bought a new coil, plugs, sacrificial zinc for the heat exchanger, new O ring for the flame arrestor. She fired right up. I let her run for an hour or so. 40+ oil pressure, 160 degrees, 800 RPM. Just purred.
Plan on bending on the sails today.
The weather is warm enough now that I can do some fiberglass repair work from last fall. I don't know if I posted it, but I was T boned by a C&C 35 as I was heading for the start line in a pursuit race. He was under power at 4-5 knots. I was less than a minute from my starting gun. Single handed. Ghosting along at 1-2 knots. BOOM. Bent three live line stanchions, tore the stern rail off, twisted the genoa track, smashed by teak toe rail.
Anyway, she is ready to sail. I moved her back to Stony Brook Harbor on Long Island, a beautiful spot but a narrow, swift moving, shallow place. I'll need my A4 to be strong and reliable. It is next to impossible to sail in and out. So, I'm banking on the old beast to keep purring.
Fair winds to all.
Skywalker
I stored in water, which ended up being fortuitous given all I've been through, so I was able to go down to the boat yesterday and fire her up. I bought a new coil, plugs, sacrificial zinc for the heat exchanger, new O ring for the flame arrestor. She fired right up. I let her run for an hour or so. 40+ oil pressure, 160 degrees, 800 RPM. Just purred.
Plan on bending on the sails today.
The weather is warm enough now that I can do some fiberglass repair work from last fall. I don't know if I posted it, but I was T boned by a C&C 35 as I was heading for the start line in a pursuit race. He was under power at 4-5 knots. I was less than a minute from my starting gun. Single handed. Ghosting along at 1-2 knots. BOOM. Bent three live line stanchions, tore the stern rail off, twisted the genoa track, smashed by teak toe rail.
Anyway, she is ready to sail. I moved her back to Stony Brook Harbor on Long Island, a beautiful spot but a narrow, swift moving, shallow place. I'll need my A4 to be strong and reliable. It is next to impossible to sail in and out. So, I'm banking on the old beast to keep purring.
Fair winds to all.
Skywalker
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