Tuesday, June 20, 2017

Our Bow Thruster is now working. The technician climbed down into the bowels of the bow to check it from the inside. There is a shear pin that could have sheared, but his inspection found that not to be the case, so the boat had to be lifted out of the water to inspect the tunnel and propellers. Guess what we found - thick plastic bag like material wrapped around the props:

EASTNOR in Travel Lift

 

Bow Thruster Tunnel with plastic wrapped around props

 

A handful of thick plastic material caused all of this problem

 

While the boat was out of the water, we had them remove the prop nuts and reposition and tighten them. The diver who installed the repaired prop put the nuts on in the wrong order. The smaller of the two nuts goes on first. We also replaced a missing zinc on the rudder.

The last time we used the generator it cut off after running for a half hour. I found weeds stuck in the through hull intake that I was able to remove by hand; I'll also clean out the strainer. Shouldn't have that problem again.

The end of a day on the Erie Canal in Brewerton, N.Y. Check out the price of diesel! $2.189