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From: Leonard, Jay D. (no email)
Date: Tue May 30 2006 - 14:13:50 EDT
Yes we've completed our maiden voyage of bring the "new" Attitude
Adjustment
, a 40 Albin trunk cabin w/single Lehman from Rochester, NY
to Mystic, CT.
All in all the trip went well as we (first mate, dog and I) arrived in
Mystic
last Tuesday evening, still all talking, no injuries, no damage
to the boat,
and with some beer and wine still on board. (how did we
manage that?)
The
only real issue was dirty fuel. I was changing Racor elements about
every 6
running hours. After a few shut downs I learned the pattern and
where on the
vacuum gage I was about to be in trouble so MOST other shut
downs were
avoided by hot element changes. After talking with one of Bob
Smith's guys
this morning I have some things to look at that were the
possible cause of
the shutdowns rather than just dirty filters. All part
of a learning
experience.
A few other things I've learned.....
1) ALWAYS carry two
anchors at the ready. We did. I kept a set of ground
tackle from the Mainship
I sold. We needed the second in the Harlem
River to keep the boat from
hitting a bridge when the engine shut down.
The anchor system that came on
the boat, 35# Delta and 80 feet of chain
just couldn't cut the mustard. My
old rusty,trusy 20 lb Danforth did.
2) A Lehman engine needs to have the
Racor housing topped off after an
element change. That's why I verified the
lesson above.
3) A Racor filter housing with no filter won't make a reading
on the
vacuum gage. I'm sure most of you have already learned this.
4) The
bridges in NYC have cameras....yes, they caught us on video. And
"I can see
Yankee Stadium" is a better definition of position than
lat/lon.
5) The
Coast Guard are really nice people...the ones that came to our
aide were
awsum. They only helped and never busted our chops even though
your truly was
not wearing a pfd. But I am glad I got up and running
just before they
arrived.
As far as I can figure the boat burned maybe 100 to 130 gal of
diesel in
this 460 nautical mile, 80 engine hour (approx 15 at idle during
locking) trip. Is that possible?
Thanks to all who have answered many
questions in the past that helped
us prepare for this trip.
A special
thanks to Rich Gano for passing along info about his mast
lowering rig. That
was a godsend and worked perfectly. I got many
comments about it along the
way, and some took pictures (Sorry Rich, the
secret's out).
Jay
Leonard
(860) 945-5456
1-800-775-2690 ext 5456
FAX (860) 945-5403
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