Fishcatcher907
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So I took a five day trip into the Prince William Sound a week and a half ago. The wife and boy joined me for some exploring and shrimping.
We had great weather for 3 of our 5 days. The last day it got pretty snotty out there.
Day 1 rain. We launched the boat and dropped pots a few miles from the harbor. Came back got a slip for the boat and spent the night.
Day 2 of the trip we met up with some friends and rafted all 3 boats up in a bay for the weekend. I’m not sure how cold it got on the night of the second day, but when I woke up we had a skim of ice in the bay.
Day 3 lots of shrimp and a beach bbq. It was cool at night and we went ashore for a campfire. Before we loaded up in the dingy I turned on the wallas so the cabin would be toasty when we got back. My son got tired so I took them back to the boat and then I returned back to shore. About a hour and a half later I went back to the boat for the night. When I arrived my wife informed me that the wallas had quit. I tried everything in my book of tricks to no avail. Luckily for me one of the other boats had a extra buddy heater to knock off the chill.
Day 4 More and more shrimp. Unfortunately I didn’t take enough fuel to run around and halibut fish. But the shrimping was great. One of the boats headed in, they had to go back to work the following day. We all headed in together. We came back about 45 miles and and stopped in a protected cove for the night. Myself and the other boat wanted nothing to do with the boat ramp on a Sunday night. We put or pots out and rafted up in the cove. It was fairly windy and poring that night.
Day 5 we woke up to plenty of whitecaps and pouring rain. It let up a little and was forecasted to let up even more. At 9am we took off grabbed our gear and left. We only had 15 miles to get back to the harbor. It was rough, but it was a downhill run. About a mile and a half from the harbor I hit a scum line. I was on before there was anyway to avoid it. Sure enough I got some around the water intake and my buzzer went off. I ran to the back of the boat and started the 15hp and had the wife raise the 90. In that weather I wasn’t going to screw around with the big motor. I just wanted to be under power. When we go back to the dock I knocked the rest of the slime and the water pump worked fine.
All in all it was a great first multi day trip. We had our share of little problems, but you’ll have that. My primary chart plotter had some sort of a glitch in the program update. For some reason it wouldn’t show land masses in color. A quick call to garmin and I got that straightened out.
Then I called Scan Marine and I talked to a guy by the name of Bill I believe. I know folks can sometimes curse Wallas stoves, but dang scan marines customer service is amazing!!! I was just sure I’d have to ship that thing down to Washington. I called five or six times throughout the day to narrow down the problem. We finely figured out the fan for the combustion chamber was acting up. He made me a new on and I installed it last night. She’s alive!
Unfortunately while I was waiting for parts on the heater I decided to pull off my Lazaret hatch. I had suspected it was leaking a few weeks ago. Well to my fears it was! The core is rotten on the hump and halfway way down the port and starboard windows. I had posted about this a few weeks ago. I had noticed a drip on a river in the v birth.
To my amazement Sunbeam reached out to me and has offered some very valuable advice. He’s pretty much walked me through the whole process. And that folks is what makes this community GREAT!
Happy boating to you all this season. My boat should be all wrapped up in the next week.
We had great weather for 3 of our 5 days. The last day it got pretty snotty out there.
Day 1 rain. We launched the boat and dropped pots a few miles from the harbor. Came back got a slip for the boat and spent the night.
Day 2 of the trip we met up with some friends and rafted all 3 boats up in a bay for the weekend. I’m not sure how cold it got on the night of the second day, but when I woke up we had a skim of ice in the bay.
Day 3 lots of shrimp and a beach bbq. It was cool at night and we went ashore for a campfire. Before we loaded up in the dingy I turned on the wallas so the cabin would be toasty when we got back. My son got tired so I took them back to the boat and then I returned back to shore. About a hour and a half later I went back to the boat for the night. When I arrived my wife informed me that the wallas had quit. I tried everything in my book of tricks to no avail. Luckily for me one of the other boats had a extra buddy heater to knock off the chill.
Day 4 More and more shrimp. Unfortunately I didn’t take enough fuel to run around and halibut fish. But the shrimping was great. One of the boats headed in, they had to go back to work the following day. We all headed in together. We came back about 45 miles and and stopped in a protected cove for the night. Myself and the other boat wanted nothing to do with the boat ramp on a Sunday night. We put or pots out and rafted up in the cove. It was fairly windy and poring that night.
Day 5 we woke up to plenty of whitecaps and pouring rain. It let up a little and was forecasted to let up even more. At 9am we took off grabbed our gear and left. We only had 15 miles to get back to the harbor. It was rough, but it was a downhill run. About a mile and a half from the harbor I hit a scum line. I was on before there was anyway to avoid it. Sure enough I got some around the water intake and my buzzer went off. I ran to the back of the boat and started the 15hp and had the wife raise the 90. In that weather I wasn’t going to screw around with the big motor. I just wanted to be under power. When we go back to the dock I knocked the rest of the slime and the water pump worked fine.
All in all it was a great first multi day trip. We had our share of little problems, but you’ll have that. My primary chart plotter had some sort of a glitch in the program update. For some reason it wouldn’t show land masses in color. A quick call to garmin and I got that straightened out.
Then I called Scan Marine and I talked to a guy by the name of Bill I believe. I know folks can sometimes curse Wallas stoves, but dang scan marines customer service is amazing!!! I was just sure I’d have to ship that thing down to Washington. I called five or six times throughout the day to narrow down the problem. We finely figured out the fan for the combustion chamber was acting up. He made me a new on and I installed it last night. She’s alive!
Unfortunately while I was waiting for parts on the heater I decided to pull off my Lazaret hatch. I had suspected it was leaking a few weeks ago. Well to my fears it was! The core is rotten on the hump and halfway way down the port and starboard windows. I had posted about this a few weeks ago. I had noticed a drip on a river in the v birth.
To my amazement Sunbeam reached out to me and has offered some very valuable advice. He’s pretty much walked me through the whole process. And that folks is what makes this community GREAT!
Happy boating to you all this season. My boat should be all wrapped up in the next week.
