Forked River Marina – Tuesday, Wednesday.

Full of sports fishing boats and us

Up early today to prepare for our outside trip to Atlantic City.   Marine forecast not good, high winds and heavy rain coming in from the West.

Made the call at 7 am, we will stay here in our secure slip, until tomorrow, good call, by 10 am it was raining hard and did not stop until 2.  We probably had 4 inches of rain with lots of thunder, flash flood warnings and one tornado touchdown a little to the South.  Cleared up reasonably well in the pm, enough to go outside the boat at least.   First mate purloined some coffee from the local Sea Tow operation, the last scrapings of our own were brewed this morning.

I wandered over to the local Diesel Generator specialist

To pass the time and discuss my problem, which was that about five hundred miles ago (somewhere in Canada) the generator started belching exhaust and undoubtedly carbon monoxide into the boat.  The exhaust elbow, which mixes raw water with exhaust gas has split (not surprising it’s a cast iron part and mixes hot exhaust gas with cold (overboard) water).  My cure was (when it was cool) to coat it liberally with two part epoxy, wrap it in six or seven layers of aluminum foil and clamp the lot together with half a dozen hose clamps.  Worked just fine for the last 30 days.

 When the boss over at the diesel place heard what kind of generator I had and said quickly “Cracked exhaust elbow, right?  The replacement is stainless steel, they saved 15 dollars on the part making it of cast iron”.  He promised that if it was not at his shop when we leave tomorrow he will ship the part to my home address in Maryland.  Good service.

 Wandering the dock late today I found these.

Both better than 18 inches across, the one on the left is a shark I think, the one on the right?  Tuna, Marlin, Sailfish no idea.

 Here’s where we go, out of the marina across the end of Barnegat Ba,y and back out into the big water, right turn and 38 miles later Atlantic City.

When we were coming in yesterday they said “Look for the Lukoil Sign”,  we are moored a hundred yards from it and it’s obvious from here (right?).  There is a seven hundred foot factory chimney behind the marina, visible for five miles, they did not mention that.

Update – Wednesday forecast almost as bad , small craft advisory and major surf outside, staying one more day.