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Fri Nov 27 11:43:32 PST 2015

Hi Kris - 

We've done the trip to New York twice, once coming in from the sea back to
Lake Ontario, and once out bound (neither time in SURPRISE, alas)

The first time I was utterly amazed at how lovely the Hudson is.  Right down
to New York it's beautiful.

Can't resist another story... When coming in from the sea, we were puttering
along in a Dufour 31 we were delivering to Toronto from Martinique.  Once
past Albany and on the Mohawk, we started encountering locks. Later we were
in the Erie canal system and the locks were frequent, and the channel quite
narrow.

There was a fellow in a large sport fishing sort of power boat who was
impatient and disobeyed the speed restrictions.  At one lock he got a polite
reminder, with the explanation that his wake was bad for the canal banks.
He was a good boy till out of sight of the lock keeper, then howled away
ahead towing a huge wake.  Well they made him wait for us at the next lock,
retribution for speeding.

As soon as the two of locked through and he was out of sight of the lock
keeper, away he went again.  Sure enough, they made him wait for us... As we
came up chugging along at 5.5 knots I could see the power boat fellow waving
his arms impatiently and speaking in a disrespectful manner to the canal
staff.  I heard the keeper say "OK - you are frozen here for three hours".
The fellow started shouting, so the lock keeper calmly said "OK - three
days".  The guy shut up.   What he hadn't figured out was that the keepers
could phone each other and when the guy showed up too early, they knew what
he was doing when they couldn't see him....

Ho ho ho..

G

On 2015-11-27, 2:18 PM, "Kris Coward via Public-List"
<public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> 
> About a decade ago, when helping a friend deliver his C&C 30 from
> Toronto to Boston (he'd recently moved), we probably lost a day on the
> Hudson River from the number of times that he noticed the engine was
> overheating, stopped it, and went down below to pull yet another plastic
> bag out of the strainer in the engine compartment before we could
> continue on our way.
> 
> After that trip, I really appreciated both that the A30 engine intake
> through-hull is so much farther below the water line than the C&C 30's,
> and that it has a strainer on it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kris
> 
> P.S. If ever planning a passage down the Hudson River from Albany to
> NYC, plan to arrive at Albany on a day when the tides look timed about
> right for you to sail in both of them (usually right around the
> quarters); we didn't, and had the same lousy timing on the tidal
> currents all the way down.
> 
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 06:23:08PM +0000, via Public-List wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> Jonathan
>> 
>> 
>> I think you would still need a cover on the outside of the hull. One year
>> while leaving Baltimore harbor the engine started to overheat. I turned the
>> engine off which released the plastic bag that got sucked onto the engine
>> intake. If I did not have a strainer on the intake, the bag would have sucked
>> into the hose.
>> 
>> 
>> Another time, Trish flushed the toilet and a small 8" eel was sucked up and
>> ended up swimming around in the toilet. There is no strainer on the 1/2" head
>> intake. Naturally, I left the helm and grabbed a plastic cup, and scooped the
>> little guy out and overboard.
>> 
>> 
>> Ya just never know what's going to happen next!
>> 
>> 
>> Mike Lehman
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from Outlook Mobile
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 5:48 AM -0800, "Jonathan Bresler via Public-List"
>> <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Michael,
>> 
>> Could you tell me more about the Groco strainer that you installed ?
>> Is it one of the ARG series ? http://www.groco.net/00-strrns/arg.htm
>> What size did you choose ?
>> Stayed with the original 1/2" or increased size of thruhull and strainer ?
>> The ARG series are beefy items.
>> The 1/2" and 3/4" pipe size strainers are about 6.5" high, 4.5" wide and
>> 5.5" deep.
>> Do you have a photo of where you mounted it by chance ?
>> 
>> Thank you,
>> Jonathan
>> 
>> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 6:59 AM, Michael Grosh <dickdurk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I removed mine and installed a Groco sea strainer in the engine
>>> compartment. Barnacles grew inside the intake and I coulden't get at them
>>> with the plate in place.
>>> The Groco is overkill,  but the removable basket for cleaning out is
>>> really really nice. It has saved my impeller many times, I am sure.
>>> MichaelGrosh
>>> #220
>>> On Nov 26, 2015 6:57 PM, "Jonathan Bresler (via Google Drive) via
>>> Public-List" <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I've shared an item with you:
>>>> 
>>>> IMG_20151126_114024699.jpg
>>>> 
>>>> https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6rlnyFb-75dbVRuRjlmS0ZjeGpyOUxxeVBRNF9Vcl
>>>> NiaHc4/view?usp=sharing&invite=CJD29fAO&ts=56579c51
>>>> 
>>>> It's not an attachment -- it's stored online. To open this item, just
>>>> click the link above.
>>>> 
>>>> Folks,
>>>> 
>>>> Happy Thanksgiving to each of you.  Hope that you have had a wonderful
>>>> day with family and friends.
>>>> 
>>>> Hauled #262 out at Smith's Marina on Tuesday....watch out narrow channel
>>>> getting in there....just ask my buddy ridding the boom as to why we know
>>>> this.
>>>> 
>>>> The raw water intake for the Yanmar 2GM20F installed in #262 has a
>>>> perforated disk cover similar to the Buck Algonquin listed at Jamestown
>>>> Distributors (
>>>> http://www.jamestowndistributors.com/userportal/show_product.do?pid=14674&f
>>>> amilyName=Buck+Algonquin+Bronze+Round+Strainer).
>>>>  Removed the cover this morning.  Certainly it was not clogged, a number of
>>>> the  holes in the strainer were clear.  A number were not.  Seems like it
>>>> could become a matter of concern over time.  The boat has been in the water
>>>> from May 15th till November 24th.   The photo shows the organic material
>>>> build up viewed from the inner side of the cover.
>>>> 
>>>> What does everyone else use ?
>>>> Slotted intake ?
>>>> Plain thruhull ?
>>>> 
>>>> Looking for experiences and recommendations.
>>>> 
>>>> Happy Thanksgiving,
>>>> 
>>>> Jonathan
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>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Jonathan M Bresler
>> Alberg 30 #262
>> Annapolis/Eastport MD
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