Lehr engine - I saw another 2.5HP Lehr parked at the dinghy dock. They are using the 16 oz. canisters. Someone stopped me asking about my long term experience. Their organization had several of them and were happy so far. Today, someone coming in asked how I liked it. It works great, but I need to get my leak, which is slight, fixed. The video makes it seem simple enough. They show replacing the fuel line, which is simple enough. Maybe something just needs to be tightened, or replace the o ring.

Today I walked around looking for parking. Pat is coming and will have a rental car for a week. When I googled for parking at the marina, I got several leads, in theory. Theory and reality didn't seem to match up, so I continued on down to the parking structure, which has official city support. That will work, but is a 15 minute walk. Pat loves to walk, so for her, that is just a warmup. Maybe I'll find excuses to wait at the marina while she goes and parks ...

Anybody ever try to follow your GPS app to someplace, and the directions just didn't work? Today, the app kept telling me to walk up a certain street that intersected the road I was walking on. So I would go north, and it said I had passed it. What?! So I back tracked ... and it said I passed it again. After trying unsuccessfully a second time, I decided the map app was delusional and I went west on a street that really did exist. Two blocks in, I found my mythical street. It did exist, but it started on the other side of numerous buildings - it did not intersect the street I started on. So I entered a bug report to the map app.

I finished cleaning the mud and shells off my anchor chain today. I didn't want to be accused of ruining the entire Great Lakes by bringing something from the ICW and depositing it in Lake Michigan. You never know. All my jerry jugs are empty of diesel fuel and my fuel tank is half empty as I get ready to truck the boat back to Illinois.

The blog photo shows what it looks like as you try to stay in the channel on the ICW. There may be lots of water all around you, but only the white water is navigable. Stray outside the lines and you could run aground, or hit some obstruction. So for eight hours you have to pay attention. The fun part is when it slaloms back and forth ... follow the red and green tagged poles. Watch out for the ones that have been run over and are just sticking out of the water.