Lord, less than two months to go and tons of stuff to do.
The boat needed a good cleaning after a long wet winter but everything seemed to work and it looks like the leak in the forward head is finally gone. Cross our fingers.
Both engines started, that is a good thing considering the electrical glitch I found last week and fixed. The engines were cross wired at the factory. the port power switch gave power to the starboard engine and vice versa. there was also a loose connection that caused intermittant loss of power to the main breaker. Both were easy fixes once I found the problem
Installed the radar arch this weekend with the help of Glen and several others from the club who offered advise and some help. Looks great! the primary purpose is to extend the canvas top further back to cover the door for the anticipated wet weather up north.
Eventually we will transfer the radar and lighting from the mast to the arch but no time to do that before the trip north.
Next on the agenda is to haul it out for about four days, clean the bottom, remove all the barnacles if any and check the props. Need to find two spare ones.
Probably install a new depth sounder fish finder to augment the digital depth guage. Finding the shallow shelf or pinacle to drop an anchor on in some of the deep coves will require being able to see the bottom contour which I can't do with a digital readout.
Gotta change oil, change the secondary filters on the engines and the filters on the genset, clean the whole thing up a bit more and load it down with provisions and we should be ready to travel. Oh yea! Fuel it up. Prices keep going up, 3.66 this weekend, Guess I better run up to Brownsville this week and top it off before it gets to 4.00 a Gallon.
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