Where WhimSea Takes Us

Posted by Karen A. Brown

Today's destination is Silver Bay. Last week the marina took a look at the engine and determined that the starter had gone out. They rebuilt the starter and said we were good to go, so we went.

We had a good run up the shore to Silver Bay. The weather was beautiful and sunny and the trip was pretty uneventful. Since we did have issues the previous week, I found myself holding my breath when Troy went to start the engine and bring us into the marina. She popped right off though and we docked in Silver Bay with no issues.

We ran into some former marina mates -- Bob Shutes and his wife -- and was introduced to some new friends from Walk About. Every year Walk About winters in Knife River and WhimSea spends the off season side by side with her. Its nice to finally meet the owners.

We got pretty polluted with them that night and at some point in the evening decided it would be a good idea to back into a slip on dock B we could party even closer. Troy started the engine and pfft. She died and that was it. There was no coaxing her to start. Since there was nothing else we could do, we went back to partying on dock B, figuring we'd make some calls in the morning, or whenever it was we'd end up getting up.

Sunday morning and we're definitely feeling the effects of the night before.

Troy tried again to start the engine to no avail. So we called Knife and Jeremy who happens to live in Silver Bay. As luck would have it, Jeremy was in Duluth for the day, but promised he would come by when he was back in town. So we did the only thing we could, we napped and waited.

Jeremy eventually came back and took a look at the motor. Unfortunately, there was nothing that he could do. Lucky for us Bruce and Kathy were at the marina and were nice enough to come up to Silver Bay and bring us back to the WhimSea car. We would have to leave WhimSea in Silver Bay while they worked on her.