May 2017
With anticipation, we arrived in Deltaville VA after wintering in Jupiter - (A CLOD - Cruiser Living on Dirt). Greek's Folly needed some basic prep work - washing, waxing, cleaning, canvas up - as well as mechanical and electrical work needed to be finished by the boatyard. The emotions ranged from excitement and eagerness to anxiety and frustration. The spring weather in VA varied from 3-4 days of sunny and warm to 3-4 days of wet windy climate. The weather was the obstacle we could do nothing about other than enjoy the hospitality and comfort of our dear cruising friends Harvey and Mary Helen Morgan who graciously let us stay with them while making boat preparations. Finally our to-do list was completed and the boatyard's to-do list was completed too. We took the boat and the mechanic on a sea trial to complete the fine tuning of the engines Then it was the first mates job to move the car up to Syracuse NY, with the help of our friend Pam Short, provision the boat and ready it for departure. The first night sleeping aboard made it feel like we were finally boating again.
For those of you who are boat owners some of the projects we wanted the boat yard to do started innocently enough with getting the props scanned and balanced. Simple enough, but when the yard pulled the props they noticed the cutlass bearing were worn so lets replace all six of those and we were off to the races. In the end we had new cutlass bearings (6), new shafts (2), new spurs (2), new zincs (2), new engine mounts (8), and new damper plates (2) on the transmissions. And that friends is how you spend your children's inheritance in a boat yard.
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