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Hi,
Just a brief report on a great memorial weekend cruise. Started
Harrington Harbor North, Deal Md. on Sat. Morning, and met Marcie T just
outside #1 marker.
We traveled together to Knapps narrows for lunch, and then up the
Choptank river to Island Creek for a n evening raftup, the first for either of
us. Saturday morning found us in our dinghys exploring creeks and trying to
get close to some beautiful wild swans.
We left at noon, and traveled up to Cambridge to explore the old city.
We moored in the open area just before the drawbridge, but Marcie T had no
gen, and needed airconditioning, as the daytime high reached 90 degrees We
met for lunch and dinner. , so they used the local yacht basin.We backed over
our dingy painter, and got to meet a local diver who unwound it for us, and
reminded us of an old lesson we had forgotten about floating painters.
We explored the old and largelly unspoiled victorian town,
and were just delighted with it.
Monday morning found us exploring the upper Choptank, and then
returning to Island creek for a lunch raftup. Along tlhe way we met Yankee
Doodle, a felow MTOA member, and chatted a bit. The return to harrington ws
tiring because a sea had built and we had to roll our way back up the 12 or so
miles from the choptank. however the overall prognosis for captain and
admiral was great, and we'ed do it again in a moment.
Holding tank woes. If you've gotten this far, then you've gotten to my
main reason for writing. On the way home, we noticed that our bilge pumpout
was looking remarkably like holding tank effluent. It was. The forward head
input comes in through an elbow, which had broken at the right angle. The
tank is of fiber glass, and zi don't know whether the elbow is glassed in
place, orlwhether it can be screwed off and replaced.
Any othe Marine trader owners who have suffered throught this know the
answer? I'll await your reply. and thanks!
Steve and Dayna Smith
Marine Trader 34DC
"Partner's - Ship"
