Great night in the marsh. Early to rise and headed to Georgetown on Thursday May 27th. Made 20 miles, cruising along when we came up on a little river town and had to slow down in 12 feet of water. Didn't make sense when it felt like we were hitting bottom, the boat shaking all over. Pulled back the throttles and it went away. Throttled up and it returned... oh boy. Limped the rest of the way to Hazzard Marine. Trying to net this out:
- dock consensus including some very salty people was that we picked up a crab pot
- stroke of luck that our marina had a lift
- hauled the boat next morning, swear we all heard drum rolls as "the Bles-sing!" rose from the water
- waant wah... nothing, clean as a whistle, props, bearings, shafts and bottom looked great. That was great but bitter sweet as the problem was elsewhere. That means next stop is the engine room.
- Captain with a blown transmission was tied off in front of us (great guy) getting a new tranny from Caterpillar technicians!
- another stroke of good luck as we have CAT diesel engines
- new tranny installed on the Capts boat... they hopped on our boat
- turbo charger bad
- turbo charger expensive
- new turbo charger installed
- better, but still problems!
- can't stay at this marina! wedding coming! got to make a flight and the leave the boat somewhere! Oh, s@%!
- limped 28 miles to Bucksport Marina
- CAT techs coming back with another fix on Monday June 21st.
The end.
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