The first thing we did this morning as we left the dock was to putt over to the boatyard and get Emerald Star hauled out of the water to check the thrusters. This place is a rip-off. It cost $650 just to haul the boat and put it back into the water. Back in Washington it costs half that much. I guess they can get away with the charge because they are the only game in town. We were shocked to see that all of the bow thruster blades were broken off. We put new ones on last month. Fred tried to reach someone at Cap Sante Marine to see if new blades could be shipped to us. We weren’t able to make those arrangements. Fred had them move the stern thruster props to the bow thruster. The bow thruster is more important. We were back in the water and on our way by 10:30 AM. This all happened after Fred had pulled the motor. Really not sure if he can get the damn thing back on. Fred made some guide pins out some bolts and literally slid the motor down his leg into the mounting. I must say this surprised me it worked so well. We passed through a couple of beautiful, small, rocky channels (Reid Passage & Perceval Narrows) and Seaforth Channel which was open to the sea. We encountered about 2 foot ocean swells through there. When we were in Mathieson Channel we noticed some surging of the engines. Fred checked them and found the fuel filters were almost completely blocked. We anchored early in nearby Tom Bay. Fred says we dodged a large bullet by finding this out. After things cooled down in the engine room Fred changed the Racor fuel filters on both engines. They thanked him profusely ….
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| Shearwater |
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| Shearwater Marina |
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| broken bow thruster blades |
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| Emerald Star being hauled |
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| stern thruster, moved the blades to the bow |
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