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Latest, I have been in the water with any of the boats I have owned Oct 19-20th...  these are shots from our last night before the boat got pulled out on Monday, Oct 21st.  Amazing October weather this year!!!  The last picture is the boat all by itself at the dock!   

Beautiful day flying in SE Alaska. This Sitka, Ketchikan and Juneau. 

Finally have all new canvas on the fly bridge. 

Update:  When I had the cap off I happened to take a picture of the top of the distributor.  I zoomed in to what I thought looked like a crack where the cap mounts.  Sure enough, the distributor base was cracked at the screw hole.  I started doing some research and found that this is a common issue in the automotive world.  So common, they make an aftermarket half-moon shaped bracket that fits under the top of the distributor and is used to screw the cap to.  For $30 I figured I'd give it a try (the alternative being a whole new distributor).  It's a bit of a PITA to get mounted but once installed, my backfire issue was gone.  So my guess would be over time the cap was loosening on the one side and becoming misaligned, creating the backfire. 

That happened to my son at hockey it was way more Than $5 

Today's project:  added an antenna switch for the starboard VHF. 

The main antennas are too tall for all those low bridges on the Erie Canal and Trent Severn Waterway.  There are so many bridges that I ran almost the whole 300 miles using a handheld VHF and no AIS.  Now, when I have to drop the main antennas, I can just switch over to the shorter auxiliary antenna.  #geekinghard

Looks like I’m down another $5! 

I set up a new system for showing tank levels on my phone (which is handy when I'm on deck filling or pumping out).  Fuel, fresh water, holding tank, house battery. 

Gotta love the icon for the holding tank.  It's a reeking pile of poo, complete with little rays of stink wafting out from the top.