and we are wet again ;-)

Aisling has a monitoring system onboard (Siren Marine) and last Thursday morning both of our phones blew up with alerts that she was moving!! Indeed our secondary system (Nebo) documented the move from warehouse to the dock at the TI Club where we will spend the month getting her ready for our voyage.

While in winter storage she had some necessary maintenance and upgrades performed. There was the issue of a slightly bent prop to be reconditioned. Probably happened in the Utica Flash Flood last summer. It was minor, as we never felt any vibrations under weigh, but needed to be fixed nonetheless. While the prop was off, the cutlass bearings were replaced. The forward bilge pump has been on my list for sometime and yet I could simply not fit into that space to do the work myself. A Borel exhaust overheating monitor was installed. Lastly the hull was compounded and ceramic coating applied. Notice the lack of Erie Canal brown ‘mustache’ on the bow!! I’m guessing it stays that way until we hit Chicago as the Canadian waters are clear enough to see the bottom.

Prepping a boat for a year long trip from 5 hours away is a challenge. Each trip is at least 3 days whereas I used to be able to spontaneously go to Warwick in an hour… So we will make as many trips as needed to make sure both the boat and our mindset is ready.

With luck and good weather we are down-bound to Montreal on June 1st!