A little good news. If you read my May 21 Perils of Pauline post, you know that we were down to one engine after snagging something underwater while drifting around waiting for a bridge to open. A few days ago a very Good Samaritan passing swimmer (Brrrr) dove down to survey the damage for us (We hadn’t managed to pull out the face mask yet). Look what he came up with! The propellor and drive shaft are fine now.
On the other side of the coin, you may notice in the picture that Vivacia is no longer in the background. That’s because the second day after arriving we dragged anchor AGAIN! (Also see previous post) We watched in disbelief from the window as Vivacia headed off to visit the neighbors, slowly sidling to the right all afternoon despite only a light breeze. When she reached the 3rd dock down we grudgingly moved her to a mooring down the creek to the left. Then promptly returned to the house and ordered a new Spade anchor. As opposed to the plough style Delta that came with the boat. Which lived up to its name, ploughing a perfect furrow for about 200 feet along the muddy bottom!
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- Imagine the racket this mess made when we put the engine in gear!
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Great news! Linda
Great photo of you, Elizabeth! Your tangle reminds us of the huge wad of crabpot line we paid a diver to cut free of our propellor shaft after we slowly moved into the marina and got tied to a dock in Santa Cruz aboard our Catalina 380, Timeline! – From Carol & Jeff Olmstead
Thanks! I had forgotten about your crabpot woes! We’re lucky ours came clean so easily! Those crab pots are the bane of our existence. I don’t think the crabs much like them either.