I left NY on Tuesday the 10th of June 2014 stopping off in NYC for dinner with my old friends Jim Parisi and Joe Perotta, then back to the hotel until Wednesday. That next day I drove down to Fredericksburg, VA...spent the night in a nice, quiet hotel and finally rolled into River Dunes at Noon on Friday, killing what was left of day staying cool and at the pool, because it was already 96 degrees. Readying the LF3 for her seasonal haul out is not an easy job for one person....So Dottie flew down Saturday and I picked her up at the airport in Jacksonville, NC on Saturday night, then we spent Sunday and Monday getting her ready.
You see, the hurricane
season runs from June 15th to November 1st in the south
and I really could not justify paying an additional $5000.00 for insurance……so
out she came and she will remain on the hard until November 1st.Sail Craft Marina in Oriental come highly recommended and I know why....excellent service and a very courteous staff!!
When you are almost a 1000 miles away from your boat, you tend to worry a bit more than usual.
Upon haul out I gave the mechanic a list of things that
needed to be done….most importantly is the tightening on the stuffing boxes and
the fuel injector pump which developed a leak over the years. It is quite an
expensive part, but, it has to be fixed before
we venture down the coast of Florida to our new marina in Key Largo. They have until November 1st to get the jobs done.
I will update you a bit further once the estimates come in
I will update you a bit further once the estimates come in
