Left Mac's marina Friday morning at 6:15 to head to Oregon Inlet. We were worried about the conditions since it was blowing hard most of the day on Thursday. To our surprise we woke up to no wind. Refuled at Pirates Cove and were on our way by 9:00 to head out the inlet. The Inlet was flat so we had no problems. What a relief since it was so bad the week before with the NE they had for a week straight.
Cranked it up to 26kts and punched Cape May into the plotter and headed north. It showed 204 nm. After a few hours the wind kicked up from the SE with a NE swell. Had to back down to 21-23kts for the rest of the trip. Eventually it went to 6' with some 8's in the mix but never had to go below 21kts. About 4 hours into the ocean run the alarms went off for the engine. It showed a water in fuel alarm. Shut everything down and drained the filters and were off again. We eventually had 5 more water alarms on the trip.Not fun in 6-8' seas. My guess is that we got the water on the refuel in pirates cove.
Made it to just north of Cape May but we were running low on fuel (hoped to make it to Atlantic City) about 8PM so we went back to overnight in Cape May. Woke up to a 20kt SSE wind and 6-8' seas building to 11' so we decided to take it easy and run up the ICW. We made it back home and tied it up about 4PM.
All in all it was a great trip aside from the water in fuel problem. The boat worked far better than expected. The Cummins QSB 380s are unbelieveable. Very quiet and plenty of power.
I will post more in the coming week.
I just have to say that Mac, his sons Wade and Keith, and their entire crew went far beyond what I thought they should have. (More on this in future posts).
Thanks Mac
Here is one pic for now. When I start to resize them, I will post some more. This truely was the trip of a lifetime.
Cranked it up to 26kts and punched Cape May into the plotter and headed north. It showed 204 nm. After a few hours the wind kicked up from the SE with a NE swell. Had to back down to 21-23kts for the rest of the trip. Eventually it went to 6' with some 8's in the mix but never had to go below 21kts. About 4 hours into the ocean run the alarms went off for the engine. It showed a water in fuel alarm. Shut everything down and drained the filters and were off again. We eventually had 5 more water alarms on the trip.Not fun in 6-8' seas. My guess is that we got the water on the refuel in pirates cove.
Made it to just north of Cape May but we were running low on fuel (hoped to make it to Atlantic City) about 8PM so we went back to overnight in Cape May. Woke up to a 20kt SSE wind and 6-8' seas building to 11' so we decided to take it easy and run up the ICW. We made it back home and tied it up about 4PM.
All in all it was a great trip aside from the water in fuel problem. The boat worked far better than expected. The Cummins QSB 380s are unbelieveable. Very quiet and plenty of power.
I will post more in the coming week.
I just have to say that Mac, his sons Wade and Keith, and their entire crew went far beyond what I thought they should have. (More on this in future posts).
Thanks Mac
Here is one pic for now. When I start to resize them, I will post some more. This truely was the trip of a lifetime.
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