28/29 July 2013

After spending the night on a mooring ball at LCYC (with no electricity) we headed north to Plattsburg, NY.  The weather conditions were a little rough...

(so were guest and crew)


We pulled into Champlain Boatworks with no injuries  - despite the choppy sea-state and high winds - Bravo Zulu to deck force, they kept me from looking bad again.  There is an excellent restaurant Dana’s Rusty Anchor at the marina were we congratulated ourselves on a safe arrival. 

 

Now onto the maintenance concerns;

Just in time for Dan's visit the generator failed... and Sea Chantey has been experiencing some issues with the house battery system so electricity has been limited when on the hook... it's always something... 

The service manager at Champlain Boatworks lent us a load tester to trouble shoot. The good news is we isolated the problem to a single battery with a failed cell; the bad news is 3 or 4 days to get a replacement... 

The generator is a different story - it looks like the starter failed - replacement time TWO weeks... 

 

Discussions happened, decisions were made... Let's do like congress does, kick the can down the road and see if we can solve these items later.

 

We say goodbye to Dan and head North.