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UVI time

Posted By: Vic Roy
Date: Sunday, 12 June 2005, at 5:24 p.m.

Well, a week from today we will be at Port Eads cranking up the UVI. Forecast calls for good weather. Got AJ all ready to roll, new Racor filters (man, they were filthy), new raw water pump impellers, all the tackle sorted out, fighting chair and rocket launcher back for it all aboard.

Cranked the genset last nite to check the voltage and cycles, all fine, then it quit. Cranked up and quit. Hmmmmmmm. Felt the raw water pump housing and it was hot, shot with heat gun, hot. Pulled the impeller and it was shreeded. Big chunk in an elbow on one of the hoses. Took forever to get that out, then went hunting for a new impeller in the place where about 50 impellers live, between the v-berths. No impeller for the genset. Got impellers for the previous Farryman genset (11 years ago gone), plenty impellers for the 6BTA's, plenty for the a/c pump, but no dice on the genset. Then it struck me why the Jabsco impeller bubble pack (empty) was hanging on the pegboard in the shop here, with "5.5 KW" written on it with a marks-a-lot. Duhhhhhhhhh. . . Guess I brought it home to get some new impellers no telling how long ago and plumb forgot. Anyway, glad it happened last nite vs. next week on the way to the UVI. UV gotta have his a/c nap about noon offshore to make them cowardsly Blue Suits bite.

Me & the Bride took AJ for a hi-speed ride down the scenic Tickfaw River this morning for a shakedown cruise and (other than the genset) all is well. Amazing how having the props tuned up smooths her out. The water over there is pretty high from TS Arlene, and the white and blue herons were all over, as were the gators. Pretty morning for a boat ride.

See some of the Faithful on Sat. and the rest Sunday afternoon. We plan to leave Venice Marina about 2 or 3 Sunday afternoon and should be at PE about 3 or 4, and let the party begin.

UV