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Re: Artemis II
I was actually just checking the mission's photo gallery. Not a ton published yet, but I'm sure they will start to pour in.:
Also, I've been using this site to get an idea of where they currently are:
https://artemistracker.com/
https://artemistracker.com/
grouch0jr
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Re: Meet the new La Rea!
Well, we did it -- finished our second pass around the Great Loop!
Because of obligations here in Virginia next week, we hustled up the coast and finished much earlier than last year. We aren't heading back out until mid-May, so I have 6 weeks to tackle a long punch list of routine maintenance and repairs.
Here's the map of our last 2 years of cruising. Total 11,600 nautical miles, 268 stops, 203 locks, 1385 engine hours. We're grateful to have so many new friends and great memories.
LaRea
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Re: Pic Of The Day
Removing my port drive this morning to replace the trim senders and found this little guy! 🦀
aero3113
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Re: What did you do to your boat today
Not today, but this weekend... Finally got my new sub installed. I also pulled the VHF Extension Speaker. It wasn't working, and it looked awfully yellow next to the bright new speakers. They don't make the Poly Planar M840 anymore, but I found one "new open box" on Ebay, so fingers crossed that it works.
grouch0jr
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Re: Pic Of The Day
Not many places on the "left coast" let you actually drive on the beach these days! Nice Spring Break Vacay! 😎
Lake_Bum
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Re: Pic Of The Day
The Derek Zoolander Center For Kids Who Can’t Read Good And Who Wanna Learn To Do Other Stuff Good Too
Rich_
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Re: Pic Of The Day
You might remember these hideous photos from September when I wrecked my props on a shoal near Detroit. Today I got some great news from Henry H. Smith Company, the prop shop where we dropped off the broken remains. One prop is finished, and he actually thinks he can save the other one! Fingers crossed. If he succeeds, he's a true master of his craft.LaRea said:And now the pix that will make you cringe: in Lake Saint Clair, the planet Earth jumped out and struck my props, destroying both of them beyond repair. The boat is out of the water until my new props arrive, hopefully by next weekend. Don't ask me to describe what happened ... the memory is too painful!
Can't store them aboard the boat, so I'll ship them to Virginia as spares for the next time the Planet Earth attacks my boat.
The replacement props from GLS have been an unbelievable good-luck story. They are 1" smaller in diameter and 1" larger in pitch, because that's all we could find off-the-shelf. The performance is identical in every way ... low speed, high speed, fuel economy, all the same.
LaRea
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Re: What is gear ratio for 2002 350 Mag Bravo3 stolen - any non-OEM replacements
Time for an update! I ended up buying the SEI 2.20 outdrive and Sola props. Then last Thursday my dock mates reported some thugs on my dock with magnets "looking for lost keys". They were forced to leave the dock but tipped us off to the fact that they were looking for the outdrive in 13 feet of water. YES - they dropped the outdrive into the water when removing it from my boat. 3 months later they returned in broad daylight to look for it. That night I went to the dock and found a rope tied off to my dock. We traced the rope under a few slips to the outdrive. We could pull it up enough to see it was in fact our outdrive. Since we couldn't pull it out of the water we moved the rope to a new spot well hidden from the pirates. Then we tied a new rope with a fringed end to where they had tied off before. We left the dock at 2:30am planning to come back in the morning with more muscle. First thing this next day we towed the boat to the marina, the pipe plug in the outdrive hole worked perfectly. That night between 2:30am and 8:00am they returned to find the cut off rope. There was a lot of wet docks so we can see they went swimming for the outdrive. They left empty handed. We pulled the outdrive from the water and took it to the marina. The drive was still sealed with no water intrusion. We cleaned it and installed it on the boat. All works perfectly. We returned the SEI outdrive for a 10% restocking fee, and the Props were returned for the cost of shipping. We are now storing the boat at the Marina to avoid another event like this. I appreciate everyone's support and advice throughout this ordeal. Now we have good photos of the pirates, We know the exact marina where they are living and the sheriff and water patrol are in process of evicting them and confiscating the boats and RVs they have been living on. There pirates have been robbing the docks and boats around Bethel Island for many years. Soon enough they will move down the river to continue doing what they do.
SoSweet
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