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Guru
Hello Everyone,
we finally took our first real shakedown cruise.* Three days out and two days back.* At the end of the first day back while waiting for a drawbridge to open I realized I had no thrust from the port engine.* Put her in gear and nothing.* Spent the night on anchor and limped the rest of the way home the next day on one engine.* The fluid leaked out of the transmission, probably into the exhaust.* Re-filling just emptied it out again.
When it came time to get into my slip, a heavy crosswind prevented me from backing in.* I put her in nose first for the time being.* This weekend I'd like to turn her around and also need to get into the fuel dock for a pumpout.
Any advice for backing in with just the starboard engine?* The prevailing wind usually comes across the starboard beam as I'm backing in, which makes it really difficult to keep the boat straight since the windage turns the bow away from the wind where I would usually use the port engine to push forward to keep the boat lined up.
P.S. if I'm making sternway in reverse, doesn't my starboard beam become the port beam?
we finally took our first real shakedown cruise.* Three days out and two days back.* At the end of the first day back while waiting for a drawbridge to open I realized I had no thrust from the port engine.* Put her in gear and nothing.* Spent the night on anchor and limped the rest of the way home the next day on one engine.* The fluid leaked out of the transmission, probably into the exhaust.* Re-filling just emptied it out again.
When it came time to get into my slip, a heavy crosswind prevented me from backing in.* I put her in nose first for the time being.* This weekend I'd like to turn her around and also need to get into the fuel dock for a pumpout.
Any advice for backing in with just the starboard engine?* The prevailing wind usually comes across the starboard beam as I'm backing in, which makes it really difficult to keep the boat straight since the windage turns the bow away from the wind where I would usually use the port engine to push forward to keep the boat lined up.
P.S. if I'm making sternway in reverse, doesn't my starboard beam become the port beam?