Back on the Santa Monica Bay!
After a few months of repair work, we’re back on the ocean!
Today, we took a few friends for a two hour trip into the Santa Monica Bay.
Our hope was to see some dolphins and maybe catch sight of Minke Whale, but it turned out to be a bit too calm out on the water. On the positive, the winds and waves were minimal… and while wonderful to be on the water, we didn’t have any mammal sightings today.
Another bonus is that two of my new neighbors came to help us park the beast… I felt pretty good parking. It turned out that navigating my way out of this small slip was more challenging than I anticipated. Another neighbor gave me the good advice to wait while reversing until I’m at a full 90 degrees before I start to go forward. No real issues pulling out, but I was treating it more like parallel parking than I needed to…
Trip 1
| Fuel | 16 of 21 inches | |
| Port | Starboard | |
| Hours | 567.8 | 567.4 |
| Added Eng Oil | 0 | 0 |
| Added Coolant | 0 | 0 |
| Added Transmission Fluid | 0 | 0 |
Issues
Pretty quickly into the trip, I noticed that our new water temp control was showing we were super hot… like 220 degrees fahrenheit hot. I checked the actual temperature of the port engine and it was running at the same temp as the starboard engine, so I kept monitoring the actual temperature through the rest of the trip, but assumed the sensors hadn’t been isntalled or configured correctly.