Well we made Morehead city. Suddenly we had thick black smoke billowing out of the engine room. A moment of shock and then of course kill the engine and investigate. Preparing to grab a fire extinguisher (which of course is right there). It turns out that the exhaust piece I had built for the water injection had broke. What??? Well first things first. We dropped anchor and considered our options.
Cannot sail down the Intra Coastal Waterway even if we had enough experience to do that. Marinas don't want people sailing in. To much risk of hitting other boats. We are not really sure where the nearest marina is.
USBoat tow. We got on the radio and they answered up immediately. I don't think we waited more than 5 minutes before they were there hooking us up. Turns out they came out of a marina that was very close. They had been listening when we had been on the radio a little earlier trying to figure out where things were.
They brought us to Portside Marina. I was not only impressed with Boat US but I really liked the people running this marina. Talk about bend over backwords to help. They told me to help myself to the use of a vise and whatever tools I needed. I had my own tools so I pulled out the broken piece. Mike and I caught a cab to the local lowes to find a suitable replacement.
There it is. A 14 inch piece of 1 1/4 inch pipe. Not sure at this point why it broke. I forgot to take a picture during the whole process. The only thing difficult was getting the small piece of threads that broke off inside the other fitting out. In all,from start to finish I guess it took about an hour to fix if you don,t count the trip to Lows. I do not know why it broke. It shouldn't have. Unfortunately I was to find out soon. All in all. I am glad I had Boat US. Hard to beat that. Money very well spent. I am still enjoying boating and we will see Steve and Linda tomorrow.
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