First of all today is day 53 of our trip AND My Birthday!!!! Thanks to all who text, emailed, call and thought of me as it was the worst birthday I think I have ever had!!!! Let me explain!!!
We left Savannah day before yesterday, a day late if you remember because the weather caused us to stay another day. It was still not the best weather to travel in but we did ok until we got to St. Andrews Sound just South of Beaufort, SC. The wind was extreme coming across that sound. we had waves breaking over the front of the boat, the boat tossing about it turned over almost everything in the house. I got most things to the floor in time to save breakage, and just put it all back together again when we got into better water conditions. (Un-knowing to us water was breaking on the deck of the boat, this water was going in our fuel tank vent tubes.)We were so tired we anchored at a place called Pigeon Landing, a small cove with a great dock landing to dinghy over to for Lexie. This was about 4 pm. By 10 pm the wind was up again and were fighting every wave just to keep the boat at anchor and stay with the wind coming straight at us!! Believe me you don't want to ever have to do that!!! (again water was going into our fuel tanks)
We worked until about 3am wind was down and rain had stopped so we were able to at least rest for a little bit. 5am it started again lasting about another hour. So by 6 am Rodney wanted to try and move the boat some as the tide was really low And we where in some shallow water. When he tried to start the motors, THEY WOULD NOT START!!!!! After an evaluation by my Capt and mechanic, it was discovered that we had LOTS of water in the gas tanks along with 400+ gals of diesel fuel. Nothing we could do but call Sea Tow and made arrangements for them to take us to a small private marina that was close to us for help. It was Marsh Harbor Boat-works Marina. Peter, the owner, Sue his mother in law, Shane an employee there that had knowledge of diesel motors and water separation. They were all helpful and willing to do whatever, but this afternoon it was discovered the problem was way to big for them to handle. So back to Sea Tow for help and they were very helpful!!!
They will be towing us back to Savannah (sometimes do do have to go backwards in life) to a large marina that has a machine that can pull our fuel out, clean it, and replace it clean of NO WATER!!!!!
Got a call just a little while ago they will come attach to our boat tomorrow morning around 9 am and back to Savannah they will take us. Arrangement have been made for us a docking slip and we will just stay there till Monday morning as they will probably not work Sat evening or Sun.
I loved Savannah but this is NOT the way I wanted to return!!!
I pray insurance will help with the cost as I will submit a claim when finished with all this work. it was a mechanical problem and I so hope it will be covered.
I am ready to go home!!! We will have to hit the ground running when we get back as we already have tours scheduled Feb the 11 th with a tour bus of Canadians.
Pray for us a good day tomorrow !! We need it!!! Rodney has worked almost nonstop for 3 days. I hope he will rest some tonight as there is nothing else he can do right now till we get to a place that has the equip we need!!
Love to all, Fran
PICS: You would not have wanted to seen any of us today!! Ha
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