harborside morning

harborside morning, originally uploaded by carolyn_in_oregon.

Sara and I sit around the boat while Jeremy goes to a local marine supply shop with Pat (a friend who came up from Blaine, WA to help work on the boat) to buy a new fuel filter. They would replace the fuel filter only to discover that wasn't the problem (though a new fuel filter is never a bad idea). The reason the boat won't go...it's out of fuel! Sheesh! The fuel gauge is broken and the previous owner had said it used 1/2 gallon an hour. However when Jeremy moved the boat from the States up to Canada they motored hard and it burned the fuel far more quickly than going at a lower rpm. We filled up the 25 gallon tank, Jeremy apologized again and again and then we were off. On his long list of winter boat projects...fix the damn fuel gauge. Gauges are good.