May 20, 2006 Muskegon, MI. The burgee sleeps with the fishes.
Friday night and we are in Muskegon, Michigan, after an interesting day on the Lake. There’s a guy at NOAA who’s ass I want a piece of right about now. Seems winds were to lay down mid morning and seas reducing to 1-2 feet. That didn’t happen. Not till Saturday morning, anyway. Winds started out just as advertised at 10- 15, but built steadily to over 30. We had to slow to about 8 kts to keep from tearing more up than we did.
At 11:45am I lost the burgee to water over the nose of the boat. We had the wipers on for 8 ½ hours and it looked like a fire hose spraying the windshield all day. (The control unit for the A/C units sheared it’s bolts and was laying in the bottom of the helm station.)
It looks like Indulgence will stay here for the week for some maintenance. Coincidence or not, in the middle of all that pounding, the windings of the genset shorted out, threw fire everywhere and filled the boat with smoke. Not what you want! The hope is that the mechanics here at Great Lakes Marina can pull the AC end and have it rewound this week.
Dave and Bettie will stay on the boat this week while I return to the real world. I’ll get caught up on the previous day to day then….