winter blues are setting in,the boats up on land and i'm stuck in the house. Next thing you know i'll be shoveling snow. I'm starting a list of projects for this year, re-do the davit system, repair the swimplatform, replace the vhf radio, and move some instruments around on the dash.

Fathers day, need a bigger boat huh?

End of the season

Well it's the end of the season for us here in the northeast, It's time to get the boat ready for winter. Yesterday i winterized the fresh water systems, changed the oil and filter in the generator and ran antifreeze thru the cooling system. The boat comes out on friday and then the motors will be prepped for winter ,clean the entire boat and cover with shrinkwrap. I have a list of winter projects i want to work on, the dingy davit hardware has to be upgraded to a better quality stainless, the original S.S i used started to rust. looking into installing WIFI for the laptops,(netflix) for the kids, upgrade the v berth mattress (for the wife) finish the blue LED lighting in the cockpit, and so on! All in all it was a good season for us dispite the grounding on memorial day(uggghh) lesson learned!! until next season,,,,, be safe everyone

Watch Hill

watch Hill was a great time nice people and good weather, now were looking forward to a few days alone on the boat as the kids go off to camp for a week. were going to bounce around fire Island and see whats going on there. some pics from Watch Hill :

The generator is working fine, unfortunatly i havent used the boat in some time . This has been a very dry summer and we havent been on the boat more than three times i think. Im even on vacation and didnt use it once, very dissapointing. well Aug 14th is a trip to watch hill for the night so we'll see how that goes .

This has been a slow week since i went back to work on tuesday.However on sat. I'll work on the genny ,I picked up a choke selenoid in hopes that that's the prob with the generator. I need it for the 24th, since were having a meet and greet raft up at Talisman . really looking forward to that ,some folks i've never met. we'll see

Pulling the Sea Ray into the marina after a great day with the family on fire Island

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUtdQutp10Y

Finished my dinghy davit project by adding some rollers and tie down ss U bolts on the swim platform here is how the dink travels at 27 mph on the great south bay.http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=kzudi1jAn9c&vq=medium

we're back in business, after the repairs i believe the boat planes faster and at lower rpm's. She stayed on plane even at 3300-3400 rpm's which i dont think i could do before. The props where tuned so i'm wondering if that helped? well let's hope for a great summer now.

grounding!!

Havana Shamrock ran aground on Sat May,31. heading to home port on the south shore of long Island , Just outside Gilgo Beach I was just on the north side of the "G" 35 bouy , apparently it's very common there because Havana barely came to a stop when i spotted the tow boat headed right for us. We where able to limp home to avoid any further damage i took it slow. She was haule dout on thursday and discovered that both props are bent and sent to be straightened .Both shafts are to be x rayed for cracks were supposed to be back on the water in a week. lesson learned!!

Davit project completed!

Splashdown!!!!

Well after a few repairs the day before the splash date, she hit the water for the 2010 season.

I was able to install a new transducer for my new Garmin 4208 . I am looking forward to the seaon and would love to spend a lot of time on Fire Island and beyond.

wishing you all a great boating season!!!

still no water!!

Would'nt you know it, i installed two new actuators and one is defective so i exchanged it andthen the other one acted up, sooooo out it came and back to the store i went. Maybe i'll be in next monday I dont know now!

splash down ruined!

i was supposed to be on the water this morning but my trim tabs had other plans, one leaked so i replaced both except one didnt work out of the box, so i have to wait till tuesday for a replacement, well at least i didnt find out the hard way!!!

Well, sanded her bottom, washed it and painted it black, ohh i'm talking about the boat of course.

the sun was shining , the marina was a buzzing with boaters and i was in my glory, I have been waiting for this time of year through a long north eastern winter. the boat looks fine i have some other projects i'd like to do this year we'll see.

Is spring here yet ? cant wait to splash havana shamrock soon, so much to do not enough time or money!!!!!