A Beautiful (But Challenging) Day

Holly says:

Today was beautiful in terms of weather and scenery. The trip up the Hudson is truly lovely, as evidenced by my photo above. It was, however, a bit troublesome due to a new mechanical problem we encountered. We left Kingston/Rondout Creek at around 9 am, headed for Coeymans Landing Marina--about a 25 mile run. After about one mile, the CO detector in the salon starting sounding the alarm--continuously, like 3 blasts every 5 seconds. Then, we saw what looked like steam coming out of the back of the boat from the engines. Needless to say, John was anxious about the cause and eager to fix it. He decided that rather than stop somewhere sooner, we would continue on past Catskill, Athens, and New Baltimore, to arrive at Coeymans Landing at about 1 pm. Immediately, John started taking the boat apart (my terminology, probably not the best way to describe it ) looking for the source of the alarm.

This section is from John's description for those who know about boats (and I am not one of you!):

While trying to solve the original problem he discovered another small problem--the trim tabs needed fluid. After checking in at the dock, and purchasing the needed fluid, we decided to relax for a little while and have lunch at a nice restaurant at the marina. After lunch, John put the fluid in and then continued the troubleshooting. He found an air intake hose dislodged that had turned face down, and was blocked, resulting in no fresh air in the engine room. After securing the hose, he closed up everything and turned on the engines--no alarm--problem solved!

By the way, this marina has nice, hot showers and laundry facilities. I realized that some of you may not know that we do have hot water and a shower on the boat--we just conserve water by using the marinas' facilities.

The weather report calls for rain tomorrow starting at noon, so we are considering staying here until Sunday and then pushing forward to Troy.

Until next time...