First the internet on my new Wind Mobile phone did not work. I knew this because Wind is only in the major cities in Canada. I am using it today because I am in Kingston. Between here and Toronto there is no coverage.
I bought the phone to use in The United States and did once hook on to ATT. The single was not strong enough to use the internet. Hopefully it will work better on the big trip.
Then we had trouble getting the Rocna Anchor down. I do not meant trouble getting it to stick, but literally down the swivel would not go past the bail. After some concern we took the swivel off and it is now working.
Then our outboard engine stopped working. This happened before the fridge so I decided not to interrupt the vacation to get it fixed. Thus while we have been sitting around waiting for the fridge we have done nothing about the motor. It will be an easy fix once back at the club.
The next problem is the big one our refrigerator stopped working. with the help of Roger Netzke and Doug Booth we now have the fridge and freezer filled with freon. The freezer is working fine but the fridge is still not working. Doug is here working on a boat and will come over when he is finished.
While trying to fix the the refrigerator unit the water pump broke. When I got here Sunday I got a new one at West Marine. The pump I took off was a .5 GPM pump which I replace with the smallest they had a 2 GPM pump. This now has created two additional problems. First it makes too much noise and second it uses too much electricity.
Next we were transmitting AIS but not receiving. I finally fixed this yesterday. On the way down I had, by mistake, reset everything to the factory setting. This erased my waypoints and changed the NEMA setting ti the one which does not work with AIS.
We may have found another problem with the batteries. They seem to loose voltage too quickly. This may be as simple as my miscalculating the power loss from running the fridge all the time.
On the positive side Pipe Dream was exhibited at The New Age of Sail Exhibition at the Kingston Marine Museum. They had a lot of activity and a great time. While biased they did feel that many visitors felt Pipe Dream was the high light of the show.
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| Pipe Dream on her way to The Thousand Islands |
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| Ducks in Gananoque's lake |
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| Kelly headed for breakfast |
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| Irish Mist sitting in front of Pipe Drano |
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| One of the larger yachts we have seen in our travels |
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| Pipe Dream's new tender and electric motor |
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| Irish Mist and Pipe Dream sitting at the public dock in Gananoque |
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