Boat work continues…

June 9th, 2011 – Today we lost our internet connection, it is real touch-and-go up here.  It is amazing at that wecan be in remote western Alaska and get the internet at all.  The weather is more of the same, low 50′s and rain on an off.  We would welcome a day of sun because we have to fiber glass some new hatch covers that we built.  The welder is working on re-fabricating our rudder.  It was put together quickly a few years ago when a weld broke and we lost our rudder, causing us to rebuild one that we found in a junk pile.  It wasn’t aligned and it wore out the rudder post block at the end of last season.  We started taking on water fast then the bilge pump would pump the water back over.  We had to use our deck hose to suck the water out of the laze and that brought the season to an end.
 
Today we found a leak in the coolant system.   Since this required us to drain 6 gallons of antifreeze out of the motor I figured it was a good time to replace all of the hoses in the system.  I just finished that project at 9:30 pm.  Dinner is ready, Cabot cooked up some PA deer steaks and noodles with pesto sauce on them.  It smells good!   I had to laugh as Cabot said “this doesn’t look like the same as when Jenn makes it” as he picked the pack out of the trash and re-read the directions.
 
No talk of any salmon showing up in the set nets yet.  The locals are allowed to set out small nets to catch their winter supply.  They are the first one to spread the word that salmon are starting to show up.  Hopefully around the 16th or 17th.  Shouldn’t be too much longer.
 
Dinner time!

June 9th, 2011 -

Yesterday we lost our internet connection, it’s real touch-and-go up here.  It is amazing at that we can be in remote western Alaska and get the internet at all.  The weather is more of the same low 50′s and rain on and off.  We would welcome a day of sun as we have to fiber glass some new hatch covers that we built.  The welder is working on re-fabricating our rudder.  It was put together a few years ago when a weld broke and we lost our rudder, causing us to rebuild one in the middle of the season that we found in a junk pile.  It wasn’t aligned and it wore out the rudder post block at the end of last season.  We started taking on water fast then the bilge pump would pump the water back over.  We had to use our deck hose to suck the water out of the laze and that brought the season to an end.
 
Today we found a leak in the coolant system.   (These are good things to discover while you are still on land!)  Since we had to drain 6 gallons of antifreeze out of the motor I figured it was a good time to replace all of the hoses in the system.   We just finished that project up at 9:30 pm (And it’s still daylight).  Dinner is ready, Cabot cooked up some PA deer steaks and noodles with pesto sauce on them.  Smells good!   I had to laugh when he said “this doesn’t look like the same as when Jenn makes it” then he picked the pack out of the trash and re-read the directions.
 
No talk of any salmon showing up in the set nets yet.  The locals are allowed to set out small nets to catch their winter supply.  They are the first ones to spread the word that salmon are starting to show up.  Won’t be too long now, probably around June 15th or 16th we’ll be ready to put the boat in the water.

Dinner time!