Big seas heading out today with at least 4 ftrs and will be climbing by afternoon.\u00a0 Want to get to Dunkirk, NY today.\u00a0 After about an hour at a good clip the port engine starts acting up again.\u00a0 Scott had to shut her down.\u00a0 We tried to get into Conneaut, OH but no phone numbers were working and no one was on the VHF radio.\u00a0 Without confirmation of a port to stop in we had to push on to Erie.\u00a0 We called ahead to let them know we were coming in on one engine.\u00a0 They found us an easy spot\u00a0 when we would get there.\u00a0 That would be more than 2 hours away in big waves and building.\u00a0 Aiden slept almost the whole way.\u00a0 Going slow and on one engine through those types of waves is unpleasant.\u00a0 Up and down through each swell.\u00a0 Scott could not use the auto pilot because the waves would shift the boat so he had to keep compensating for each swell.\u00a0 We were happy to see Erie even though it was about 50 miles short of our destination of Dunkirk.<\/p>\n
The engine itself looked to be good.\u00a0 Scott changed out the fuel filters and topped up the diesel.\u00a0 We suspect a bad batch of diesel from Sarnia.\u00a0 Just after Sarnia we started having some issues and Scott took a look at the diesel in the fuel.\u00a0 It was so contaminated with debris that he was concerned at that time.\u00a0 Conductance was running well but an alarm for water in the fuel had come up which is why he started to bleed the filter in the first place.\u00a0 He is hoping that by changing out the filters yet again and adding clean diesel it will be better.\u00a0 Nope! She still runs like a bucking bronco.\u00a0 Now he is wondering if the sensor that was sold to us back in Cedar Point was the right one.\u00a0 The fellow had said that the part numbers had been changed and that this sensor was the one.\u00a0 He didn’t really take the time to listen to Scott while on the telephone and was really sure he knew which one it was.\u00a0 Now Scott is wondering if we were given the right one.\u00a0 So he popped out the sensor and started her up.\u00a0 She started up perfect.<\/p>\n
Tomorrow we will try to get going in the morning without the sensor and head as far as we can.\u00a0 The waters on Lake Erie are supposed to lie down so hopefully we can pull some good time.<\/p>\n
We were so focused on the engine for the night that we forgot about pics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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