Tuesday, July 24, 2012                       

76°09.577’ W

43°14.620’ N

Winter Harbor Marina

Brewerton, NY

Barb was busy doing laundry and getting the boat ready for our trip west on the Erie Canal.

I worked on scrubbing the filth and grime left on the boat from passing through the Oswego locks. Some of the stains haven’t come off even after using strong chemicals and lots of elbow grease!

I dove on our boat and removed large clumps of sea grass that had twisted itself around our shafts, props and rudders! Normally reversing the rotation of the props will clear the debris from them but this time it didn’t work as it usually does. Later I cleaned the strainers that collect debris that’s in the water being pumped into the engines to cool them. My timing was good as they were 90 % plugged and about to cause the engines to over heat.

Stan also had me dive to retrieve a special cap that had fallen off the side of their boat while at the dock. He has a Hooker rig that supplies air to the diver so it helped me stay down long enough to recover the lost item.

Tomorrow Stan will see a doctor and hopefully get to feeling better. His boat was pulled today and the repairs to the bottom will begin tomorrow. Most of the damage is cosmetic but is important to repair before water finds its way into the exposed fiberglass.