Several months ago my wife had found another good deal on plane tickets and bought three one way tickets to NJ with the intention of flying out of Detroit May 24th to start our trip. We were packed and ready to leave bight and early Sunday morning when we got the call Saturday night from the yard. They had been able to replace the stuffing box with a drip less unit, had fixed another leak I had found with a broken seacock (the surveyor had mentioned it but I forgot to get it on the list to have repaired) and had just put the boat back in the water. When doing so the muffler decided to rust though at that moment & the alternator went out (this was supposedly fixed as part of our deal before we bought the boat). Well yet another wrench had been thrown into our plans; we decided not to fly up and chalked up the cost of the plane tickets as a lesson learned. The yard now seems convinced that both issues can be repaired by Thursday, so we now have high hopes of doing a one way car rental and making the drive once again out to NJ on Thursday with the full intention of leaving for our trip Friday afternoon… If all goes well we think we can make it to the mouth of the Hudson River Friday evening & then start the three day trek up the Hudson to Albany Saturday morning as the tide is coming in.
If we can’t start the trip this weekend, I’m not sure what we are going to do as we don’t have any time available to try again until mid/late July….
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