Winds were light and from behind again as we headed to Cape
May, the southern tip of New Jersey. So
we were motor sailing once again.
We decided to try to fix the impellor under way. This requires removal of the galley
floorboard which we usually do with 2 people.
Necessity being the mother of invention, we found a way to lift the
floorboard single handed, which gives access to the impellor. The impellor can be removed for cleaning, a
blanking plug is inserted before the boats sinks, and the impellor can then be
cleaned and replaced. It works! Yippee.
So the couple of pints of seawater in the bilge were mopped up and
floorboard replaced.
And then the impellor stopped working again. So the operation was repeated, and this time
the cleanup and floorboard replacement was not done until the log had been
working for an hour or so. This time the
fix seems permanent, at least the log lasted all day.
We tied up at Canyon Club Resort Marina, 38° 57.215N 074° 54.059W, just before the
Cape May canal which will tomorrow take us to the Delaware Bay.
We dined on rotisserie chicken, rice and veg, before an
early night in readiness for an early start tomorrow.
Ships Log: 6836.3, Trip, 32.3, Trip Total: 250.5
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