Mystery - the Trip Home

Purchase of our boat and the trip home to Canada

Vessel Name: Mystery
Vessel Make/Model: Irwin Citation 34
Hailing Port: Saint John, NB
Crew: Linda and Rik
22 July 2010 | Penobscot Bay somewhere
19 July 2010 | Rockland ME
18 July 2010
17 July 2010 | Belfast ME
14 July 2010 | Belfast ME
10 July 2010 | Bah's Bake House - Castine ME
06 July 2010 | Cuttler to NE Harbour
05 July 2010 | nice day on the water
03 July 2010 | Saint Andrews, NB
02 July 2010 | Fredericton, NB, Canada - Saint John river
23 May 2010 | Fredericton, NB, Canada - Saint John river
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14 July 2010 | Belfast ME

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10 July 2010 | Bah's Bake House - Castine ME

July 06 10 to July 10 10

Been a few days, been without wifi. Moved around a bit, had a few "adventures".

May 24th, 09 - Port Washington NY to Port Jarvis, NY

25 May 2009
May 24th, 09 - Port Washington NY to Port Jarvis, NY

We spent two nights at the North Shore Yacht Club in Port Washington. I do not think I have found a nicer bunch of real people. They are as good as the Camden ME Yacht Club - and they rate a perfect ten with me! (Thanks Mike and Bonnita for the advice)

The photo is the club in the morning mist as we left for Port Jarvis

A very easy and nice motor (of course the wind was on our nose - what's new??)

Lovely day, everything went very well. Except - when we got into Port Washington, the Yanmar would not idle well, died at slow RPMs, Ugg! That is not a good thing. To go from forward to reverse (reverse is the brakes) you have to go through neutral - read "slow RPMs". So - Doug and I thought it might be a fuel filter clogging up. There is one thing diesel engines must have - and that is clean fuel. On examination we noticed that the glass fuel bowl at the bottom of the RACOR filter was half full of black sludge. One unknown of buying a used boat is "how clean is the fuel tank?" We had some pretty choppy seas coming up the coast of New jersey, and I figured if it was going to clog up - that would be when it would happen. We totally dismantled the filter, cleaned it to spotless, refilled it with diesel, replaced the filter element and the two "O" rings, bled the system and all was a go. She has worked flawlessly since.

Port Jefferson was OK - we anchored. Lots of boats as it is a long weekend down here.

Got there about 3 pm. It was nice and warm and I spent the next hour re-building the head. Fun job, but now the head works perfectly. I wonder what is next?

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Rik and Linda
Mystery
Irwin Citation 34

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Mystery's Photos - Main
We adopted / resuced an SPCA cat in March. He is 1.5 years old and is our boat cat.
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Created 23 May 2010
These are photos from our preparation and trip from Annapolis MD to Fredericton, NB
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Created 25 April 2009

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