Star0210
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- Joined
- May 7, 2016
- Messages
- 906
- Location
- US
- Vessel Name
- Sea Star
- Vessel Make
- 2004 Cruisers Yachts 50SS
Sooooo....we go to the boat this morning with plans to do a little cleaning and then taking her out for the day. Hubby is unloading stuff from the car and as he rounds the dock he sees the AC cooling water just stop coming out the side of the boat. He comes in and tells me turn the AC units off. He goes in there to check it out and figures out the pump has died. He spends some time getting it out and then off to West Marine he goes. Didn't have one in stock so it had to be ordered. Should be in Tuesday.
Ok so no AC. Open up all the windows...it's not too hot today and we weren't hanging out inside anyway.
So nothing we can do about that right now so let's take her out and go play. Loaded up our marina neighbors and off we go. Boat is running great....no problems whatsoever. We docked at the city wall and went and had a late lunch and a few drinks and listened to the band playing for a while then back on the boat. Cruised up the river a bit more and then turn around to start heading back. Decided to stop at a marina there on the river and get some fuel. No problem...pumped about 40 gallons of gas in, started the engines and generator and leave the dock. Get about 100yds away and everything just shuts down. No engines, no generator. Well what the heck? The men go down into the ER and discover water in the gas tank. Drop the anchor right there in the middle of the river and call BoatUS for a tow. I sure am glad we took care of getting that towing policy on day one. The tow didn't cost us a penny. We had to wait a bit for them to get there because they were towing another big boat to our same marina because they too had fuel problems. We're going to find that boat tomorrow and see if they had gotten fuel at that marina also.
So now first thing in the morning we will call a mechanic to come and do whatever they do to fix such things and document all the water and make a phone call to the marina where we bought the fuel.
There was no water in the tank prior to us getting fuel....we had been running for prob 2 hours total with no issues at all and then as soon as put that fuel in the boat...disaster!
And I don't think I'm being overly dramatic this time! Lol
On a positive note, our rebuilt cockpit hatches are done and they are soooo pretty. And the guy did a fabulous job fixing the holes where the PO had a bicycle rack installed and where he had a ramp that he took off.
And I've convinced hubby to let me go ahead and pay him to clean up, reseal, strip, and repaint all the windows. At least I'll have pretty window frames and cockpit hatches....lol
I've decided the goal of owning a big boat is to see how fast we can drain our checking account.
Ok so no AC. Open up all the windows...it's not too hot today and we weren't hanging out inside anyway.
So nothing we can do about that right now so let's take her out and go play. Loaded up our marina neighbors and off we go. Boat is running great....no problems whatsoever. We docked at the city wall and went and had a late lunch and a few drinks and listened to the band playing for a while then back on the boat. Cruised up the river a bit more and then turn around to start heading back. Decided to stop at a marina there on the river and get some fuel. No problem...pumped about 40 gallons of gas in, started the engines and generator and leave the dock. Get about 100yds away and everything just shuts down. No engines, no generator. Well what the heck? The men go down into the ER and discover water in the gas tank. Drop the anchor right there in the middle of the river and call BoatUS for a tow. I sure am glad we took care of getting that towing policy on day one. The tow didn't cost us a penny. We had to wait a bit for them to get there because they were towing another big boat to our same marina because they too had fuel problems. We're going to find that boat tomorrow and see if they had gotten fuel at that marina also.
So now first thing in the morning we will call a mechanic to come and do whatever they do to fix such things and document all the water and make a phone call to the marina where we bought the fuel.
There was no water in the tank prior to us getting fuel....we had been running for prob 2 hours total with no issues at all and then as soon as put that fuel in the boat...disaster!
And I don't think I'm being overly dramatic this time! Lol
On a positive note, our rebuilt cockpit hatches are done and they are soooo pretty. And the guy did a fabulous job fixing the holes where the PO had a bicycle rack installed and where he had a ramp that he took off.
And I've convinced hubby to let me go ahead and pay him to clean up, reseal, strip, and repaint all the windows. At least I'll have pretty window frames and cockpit hatches....lol
I've decided the goal of owning a big boat is to see how fast we can drain our checking account.