A short cruise, bang on the dock & Wallas dripping diese

CatyMae n Steve

Well, I'm healing from that flippin surgery, having major withdrawals from lack of fishing and boating -- we decided to go for a short cruise up the Yaquina today...tried to make us some coffee while Steve put on the new holder for the fishnet....Wallas wouldn't start...both the light on the switch and the "I'm goin out now red light" were flashing, so we shut it off, waited for all the lights to go off and turned it back on...nada, zilch, zip -- so we went cruising without coffee...windy...backing out and boat wouldn't turn fast enough...ended up backing into the slip behind ours...but not without bangin the boat into the dock on the side trying to get back out of there...grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Doesn't look to be all that bad...maybe a minor abrasion, but I HATE banging the boat up!

Cruised up to Toledo and came back...anchored to jig for some herring...Steve's lookin for snacks...opens the cabinet and there's diesel on everything under the stove....think now that we must've "flooded" it, because it was coming out of the plate on the bottom surface of the stove...so we had a huge mess to clean up....got the smell out (thank heaven for clorox wipes and windex) and took the diesel with us to get some fresh stuff...wondering if there was condensation in it...we haven't been over for 3 weeks...it worked last time we were there...dunno Question

The new CatyMae is about 5 mph faster than the old boat was WOT (even with the "growing stuff" from being moored in the water)...still, top is about 4600-4700 RPM...that's kinda low, isn't it?

Caty

flagold · Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 10:54 pm Post subject:

Nothing cures the Wallas blues like a generator and a Mr. Coffee!

That said, when you do get it cleaned up (no matter how much you clean), it is going to smoke like the dickens until the diesel cooks off. Mine smoked for about 8 hours upon install after a thorough cleaning, so do the best you can to clean it up and maybe go through the glowplug cleaning procedure on the other thread.

CatyMae n Steve · Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 12:16 am Post subject:

Grumpy · Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 10:10 am Post subject:

Caty,

You might try calling Mike at Scanmarine. He recently cured my Wallas of a number of illnesses including the dreaded diesel drips. He knows lots of tricks that the factory seems not to know and it appears that various small things not being exactly right leads to all sorts of weird symptoms.

Mine has now been working for 2 weeks and I am beginning to uncross my legs and fingers.

Merv

lloyds · Posted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 1:55 pm Post subject:

I kept an eye out for you guys this weekend. The fish just weren't there. There were a lot of halibut caught at the rockpile. I almost always manage to salvage a trip by catching something at the whistler.
This trip was no exception. Caught a 15 pound silver. Beautiful fish. Luckily it was clipped. The game gal also found a transponder in the nose. When she gets finished with your fish there are no photo ops. So a friend of mine was on F dock and told me to go down to the alsea in 200 feet of water. He went and next thing I know they are walking up the dock with 3 chinook and a coho. I should have listened. The advice I got on this site about the green and white glow flashers with e-chips and the coho killers to match has been dead on. The coho jumped right on it. Two others did the same sunday afternoon but they were natives so I had to waste them. There were more, and bigger, crab caught in the bay than I have ever seen. Unfortunately they were soft. No one seemed to complain.