Where WhimSea Takes Us

Posted by Karen A. Brown

We have a working weekend plan this weekend. It's the weekend before our vacation so we need to clean and bring on the canned goods and things for our vacation.

On the drive down from Silver Bay, the guys had noticed a diesel leak, so the mechanics had taken a look during the week. A line was cracked during the last of the work which was replaced. Again, they said we were good to go, but wanted us to test her out so we drove around for about an hour on Saturday and found the engine to be working well.

We worked hard on Saturday so all the work was completed on Sunday so we could go for a sail. Bruce, Dave, Joe, Troy and myself went out to enjoy the day. It was Joe's first sail and we hoped for good wind.

The wind, however, was kind of flukey. We had a little wind that we chased around the lake for a while. We decided to start the motor and drive out to the wind and were rewarded with NO ENGINE!

Joe and Dave took a look and found the starter was loose in the compartment. They tightened her up and got the engine going just in time for the wind to come up, so we, of course, shut it off again and sailed a while. We got closer to the marina and restarted the engine to bring her into the marina.

Looks like the mechanics would be back to tighten the starter.