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Storm Watch

Nothing exciting to report. The wind seems to gust to 30-40 MPH once in a while beginning early this afternoon. We have had periods of moderate to heavy showers, and the boats and float are being tossed by 3′ wind waves out of the south. I imagine the contents of Jeremy’s Luhrs and my Californian trawler have been launched all over their respective cabins by now. The waves are hitting the boats,  anchored bow and stern, from their starboard sides.

RSS Feeds

Hey..If you want to have the news feed directly to your web browser or mail program…look to the lower left of the page and click on the  ”entries RSS” or “comments RSS”. Once your there, you can copy and paste the URL (that’s that funny looking text in the top of your Browser window usually following http://) into your mail program’s news feed setup. It’s fun to get the comments, too. So don’t forget to get that feed as well.Those of you with sophisticated mobile devices can set those up as well. If you need help, call India, China, Wall Street, Indonesia, or email me. Have fun!

Generator Repair


The fresh water pump failed on the only working generator on the Billy Vee III. Jimmy, Grant and I are taking the good pump off of the generator motor that we havn’t been using and putting it on the motor that works. The boat has two 18kW generators, but one of the units has a bad winding (but good motor), and the other has a working generator, but an old, almost used-up motor with 6,200 hours on it. Eventually we’re going to have to swap motors/generator heads to have one good gen set.