Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Towards Chasapeake

 I stared sailing up from Coinjoint  bay to North Landing.  Plenty of sailing at 6 to 8 knots, mind you the speed transducer seems uncalibrated. 

About 2pm, wind gusts were hitting 30, the sail was furled as we were facing the winds.  The river was going to be curving a lot for 15 nm to Chasapeake free dock.  With an abundance of caution I decided to anchor at Blackwater 2.  



Took a nap and then I decided to try to fix the leaky water pump.  I discovered the water pump drive belt had a scar so I changed that too.  


The shaft packing seemed to behaving well.  There was a fair bit of oil under the engine sump.  

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