…is dying a slow death. The free hosting service is turning off some of my mojo - basically any service that links out to other sites. So I have lost: picasa galleries, weather and something called akismet (which you never see). I’ll see what I can do to fix it but this has a very low priority.
Update. Sometimes, some-stuff still works. It doesn’t always work like it used to (local weather), but still chugs the site along (akismet, picassa).
Update to the update. Sometimes the system fails with a database error. I believe that the free provider limits bandwidth or access to the SQL database that WordPress uses. The system will fail and throw up a DB error. Then, later on (hours, minutes or days) everything works again. It must be working now because you are reading this, but if it doesn’t, now you know more about why…
Apparently the site is running well enough, enough of the time, that Canada considers this Willard site to be a matter of national security. And apparently our government is trying to find ways to bring a 30′ Willard up to ‘hull speed’ and if so, just what kind of offensive weapon could it be. Following are lists of recent visitors…
7/30/2010 - Slow Dancer is SOLD. After 5 boats and 20 years, boating (cruising anyway) has run its course for me and I’m moving on to new hobbies. Selling this boat was very strange. Everybody who saw it really liked it and thought that it was priced fairly (see feedback and guest book) but it took awhile for someone to actually buy it - there were a number of false starts. I guess that the boat was just looking for its perfect buyer. Or, the economy sucks.
I am now on a quest to find the perfect runabout for my compound along the navigable waters of Hammersley Inlet. This may be it - mid 70’s Starcraft aluminum 15.5′ with a 30HP mid 80’s Evinrude. The deal is pending a tune-up.
UPDATE: I ended up buying this boat. The larger pictures are post purchase, the smaller pictures were provided by seller.
This Blog - Since the site provider is totally free and the site is ‘done’, I will keep this blog up indefinitely - and even occasionally update it. There really are some interesting tweaks that I have done to Wordpress to get all this stuff to work the way it does. Note that I may let the willard30.info domain name lapse, so you should probably bookmark willard30.netau.net if you ever want to find your way back here.
I’m sure it will be an emotional moment when I shut this site down as it will mark the end of a very big portion of my life for the past 20 years. Just so I don’t forget: Early 90’s there was the Northwest 21, mid 90’s was the Cooper 315, early 2000’s the 26′ Cooper express cruiser, mid 2000’s the Gulf 27 Pilothouse, and late 2000’s was the Willard 30 Vega Voyager.
Ran the motor for .5 hours (motor temp up to about 160°). Fuel looked good. Checked the intermediate bearing - good. Let water from the fresh water tank in (and out) to flush the bilge.
It has been very rainy. Looked for any water incursion. Really nothing. The usual (along the rails of the v berth). Small drip from water blowing into wire run under pilot house - fixed.
Looked for a new way to add (and hide) heater hose from the diesel heater to the forward cabin - one that doesn’t need deployment like my cake pan invention. In my rooting around I found a sheet metal pan under the stove. At some time, water had gotten under it and it has rusted and pitted a bit. I cleaned and treated the rust. There is a compartment below the stove that has a hole for ventilation from the stove area - this eventually vents outside. For a proof of concept I will run a 3″ duct hose out from the ventilation area and down into a smaller diameter fan. Should be a fun project. If it moves enough warm air, I will route it down under the floor and out into the forward cabin.
4/11/2010 - had a diver change zincs today. It was definitely time. Des Moines isn’t a very hot marina and I can get about 9 months out of a pair of limited clearance zincs. I kept putting my zinc change off because I figured someone would bring this bad boy to survey. Hadn’t happened yet, so it was time to get a diver.
It had been awhile. Recent rains had cleaned and glossed the decks and the boat looked bright and fresh in the dappled sunlight.
Vacuumed the head and salon. In the head I had been noticing that the bowl was a bit loose where it mounted to the floor. I made a design decision when I installed it. I chose to use two of the three tie-downs to keep the bowl stable - I did both sides but not the front. Lately I thought the head was a bit noisier when it was in grinding mode - caused by vibration at the base. I think that I had always intended to put a soft barrier between the bowl and the surface it sits on.
The boat show demo of this head actually seems much quieter. As it is, mine sits on a ’sounding box’ that resonates a bit louder than the demo setup. The new head is much better than the old, but not up to boat show silence specs.
I freed the bowl and put putty tape along the bottom. This adds some ’sticky’ and a cushion to the bowl. It is more stable and seems quieter.
There was a black oil sheen on the salon area bilge water. It was weird, there was no evidence that it was coming from anywhere forward - engine or transmission. Turns out it was from the intermediate bearing that I greased up before the last trip. Cleaned that up and degreased as best I could. I hope it is ok, I won’t be able to tell ’till I start the motor and engage the transmission. * Update * The bearing is fine, it just had a bit more grease in it than it needed.
Trip to the Willard Rendezvous 2009 in Brownsville WA - you may click on any data point to enjoy it’s scrumptious metadata…
Boats of the Willard 2009 WA Rendezvous
Down to the gravel pit for a raft-up with Herb’s boat.
Here is a point by point recap of the trip. Start at Blake Island and head north - you can click on the arrows and squares for detailed metadata at each point. If you want to download the .KML file and ‘play’ the trip in a Google Earth ‘animated fly over’, click here and download ‘Vacation 2009 KML’. To play, follow the instructions from this post. Note that on 8/23 I revised the KML file to include depths. Also, the final waypoint (306) contains trip summary information.
Trip notes:
I will have to admit that we had impeccable timing on this trip - mild weather, available moorage, fair tides and calm seas. But then again ‘chance favors the prepared’.
Pictures of the trip are now posted on the Willard30 Picasa site and are available in the galleries section here.
Been working on cleaning up the boat and ’stuff’
Stuff would include rebedding chainplates on pilothouse roof. Note that the lower part of starboard turnbuckle has seized - I couldn’t free it with the small pipe wrench that I had on the boat. Loosening the port side allows you to remove the starboard side. On the ‘replace list’ but pretty far down.
Stuff also included a filtering. I used my homemade fuel filtering device and filtered the heck out of the port side tank - I only used the starboard tank on the trip. I’ll have to admit that thing really does a good job. As a last step I dump the contents of the filter into the white 5 gal bucket. I changed the active tank to the port side tank and have put over an hour on the motor with no known issues. Update - I took a look at the Racor after putting an hour on the motor. It looks good.
08/24 - Oil change
The PO installed an oil change pump and it really makes changing the oil more civilized. I have ruined lots of clothes changing the oil on previous boats. No problems this time around, I actually got the ‘inverted’ oil filter off before much oil had leaked out. My most civilized oil change ever. To increase the level of difficulty, next time I’ll try it with white gloves on…
Vacation day 16 - the journey home. Busy morning. A tug pushed a barge into the Poulsbo marina and practically up on the beach. They were loading pilings to take out to the breakwater. I congratulate myself if I don’t cause harm or kill someone when I dock, this tug guy threads some big barge up between pleasure boats and pilings and then back out again. It’s good to see professionals at work.
Early morning bakery run. I’ve been eating Sluys baked goods since the ’60s. I still weigh less than 500 pounds. Everything is great!
We were underway at 9:30AM. I had plotted my course close-in to Brownsville, where the Willard rendezvous will be held next month. I always skip Brownsville when I travel up Port Orchard passage. It is neither here nor there. Morning sun, but evening shade. It is just in between stuff. There should be some good cantenna-ing in September, I noticed a lot of ‘linksys’ hot spots. ‘Linksys’ as an SSID usually equates someone that has not spent time setting up their wireless router with encryption.
Hit Rich Passage at about slack - always a good thing. Plotted us by Manchester (I’ve never really taken a good look at what is there), the west side of Blake Island and down the west side of East Passage.
Arrived in Des Moines early afternoon. Most packing and cleaning was done on the last leg. Everything was bundled up and ready to haul off. Two carts, one 1988 Toyota pickup truck and a 30 minute ride home marked the end of this adventure.
Summary of books read or listened to on this trip
The criteria to be on this list is that you had to have either started and/or finished the book while on the trip:
Dharma Bums, Scarlet Ruse, Hello Vodka It’s Me Chelsea, The Scarlet Letter, The Tortilla Curtain, Ballad of the Whiskey Robber, Book of Lies, Labyrinth, Book of Air and Shadows, Fearless Fourteen, Emma, Agnes Gray, Silks.
Guidebooks used to identify marinas and moorages:
The Burgee Marina Guidebook 5th edition, Docks and Destinations, Anchorages and Marine Parks
Vacation day 15. No wind. Clouds and sun in the morning. Louise was afraid that we would be pinned in by fishing boats. But they were mostly all gone when we left at 8AM. Of course we had been hearing them since dawn… Somebody was pissed because they got rafted to. Somebody was pissed because they had fish blood on their boat. Somebody was spinning a fish tale. Somebody was laughing at said tale…
Made good time with favorable currents. I had plotted myself down the east side of the channel, cutting across the shipping lanes at Port Madison, but as I looked back north I noticed a large container ship looming off in the distance. So I decided to cut across earlier - about Pt Wells. As I headed west I noted that there were a ton of fishing boats off of President Point and Point Jefferson. Some were in the southbound shipping lane. It wasn’t long until I could see the container ship on my AIS system - the Zim Los Angeles. It also wasn’t long until I heard a voice on 14 say they were the Zim Los Angeles and that they were asking to change course due to fishing boats in the shipping lane. It also wasn’t long until CG Seattle came on to 16 and read the colregs to anyone listening. And then a few minutes later, came on and read them again. And it wasn’t long after that that several fishing boats were squawking on 68 about the size of the wake from ‘that ship that just passed’.
It turns out that the Zim is a Mega Container ship - one of the biggest to visit Seattle.
Active Pass was a breeze and an hour later we were in Liberty Bay and at the Poulsbo Marina. At Poulsbo you just pull in and pick an appropriate sized not-reserved slip and tie up. We took a slip about a half way up the 30′ slip dock. The place was only about 10% full. Liberty Bay was ‘in bloom’, brown with algae and smelled bad.
Poulsbo is a pretty good deal - $25.50 with electricity. A very good spot for a guy with a cantenna as well.
We walked up to town and got pizza by the slice when the ‘pizza by the slice’ place opened at 11. Arriving at a port before noon really makes boating more fun. You have more time to absorb the town - and a warm lunch. The pizza was a good deal at $5.50 for a slice, a drink and a salad. Very fresh tomatoes.
Louise has been looking for an classic copy of Mastering the Art of French Cooking for awhile and I have been looking to replace my copy of the John D MacDonald book that I have been trying to read (Travis McGee - The Scarlet Ruse) - the binding failed on mine and all the pages keep falling out, forcing me into a sorting ritual at each read. So we stopped into the used bookstore.
I asked the woman where ‘Mystery’ was and she said that ‘Mystery’ was over here, but ‘Classic Mystery’ was over there. Sounded promising - and a great idea. Keep the classics like MacDonald away from the J A Jance’s of the world. Cool, there it was. Now I can finish it (again).
Who could not like Travis McGee? Lives on a boat, tilts at windmills, saves damsels - thinks about things. Besides the McGee series I have just about every book MacDonald published. Luckily Louise shares my predilection for MacDonald (at least for Travis McGee). I even bought her an autographed copy of ‘The House Guests’ (a book he wrote about his cats - Louise has cats) which we read to each other. A book about his cats? That man can write more humanity into a comma than many other ‘mystery’ authors do in a series of books.
By the mid ’90s I had read all but 1 of the Travis McGee series. So I stacked them on a shelf and said that I would read one them a year in order, and on my 50th birthday year read the book I hadn’t read. It is humbling to watch your life tick out, book by book.
So I scored but Louise struck out. She even asked, and the store lady said she didn’t have a copy. The woman then went to her computer and was looking up the cost of a new copy and I saw that she was using Firefox as a browser while accessing Amazon. I told her about the Book Burro extension, how it worked and how I thought it might really help her in her business. So we ‘got to talking’. ‘You know, I just might have a copy of Mastering the Art… let me look’, and off she went. Turns out she did have a copy squirreled away for herself, a classic 1966 second edition… $22, sold. Everybody came away happy. I recommend the Book Stop.
Later in the day we Interwebbed the closest liquor store on my netophonealizer and set off on a Quest for Vodka. After one wrong turn that sent us west instead of east we found the shopping strip-mall that contained the state liquor store. It started to rain just as we got back into town. Back at the boat I ’serial killed’ what remained of our block of ice with a hammer, and Louise constructed an evening equalizer.
Vacation day 13. Woke up to clouds but no wind. Oh boy, a travel day. Here is some info about Louise. Louise likes boating, it’s just the docking, un-docking and travel between dockings that she worries about. Wind is part of all of those. We were underway at 10:30AM.
Our route took us through Lopez Pass, across Rosario Strait and in through Deception Pass, either stopping at Coronet Bay (short day) or Oak Harbor (long day). Thanks to the Nobeltec ETA calculator’s uncanny accuracy we timed both passes just right. We had about 2 knots with us through Lopez and 5 knots with us through Deception.
We were getting such a good lift from the currents that I decided to shoot for Oak Harbor. I always do this after getting through the pass even though I keep meaning to stop at Deception Pass State Park. After passing Coronet bay, a guy in about a 22′ fishing boat starts heading straight for me flailing his arms. I thought WTF is wrong. Turns out he has had a Willard since the ’80s and keeps it at the public dock in Coronet Bay - we had seen the unmistakable lines of a Willard in the ‘glasses’ as we passed. According to some documentation that I have, my boat came out of Coronet bay as well. We had a conversation on channel 72 for about 10 minutes. Turns out he knew my boat well and even helped install the motor in the mid ’90s. Next time I WILL stop in Coronet Bay and hopefully get to talk more Willard…
We made great time with a 2 knot current with us around Hope Island. About buoy 12 we got into a bit of chop. By the time we got south of the Swinomish channel markers we had about 18 knots of wind on the nose (I talked to a sailor later that day and got that figure) and the 2-3 knot current opposing it. The bay was very confused with 2-4 foots seas and quite close together. We took a lot of spray on the pilot house windows - it was a wet but fun (for me) ride. Note that the front slider window is not weather-proof and water will ingress at the center post. As we turned the corner into Saratoga Passage the seas were on the beam making for an uncomfortable rolly ride (for both of us) until maker 2 where we could turn north again.
We got into Oak Harbor a bit before dusk. I F’ed up my docking and came in too strong and sort of bounced off the front edge of my rub rail. A neighboring sailboater came out and helped reel us back in. There was no wind, it was perfectly calm, no current, but my senses were still overloaded from the previous 3 hours (and two weeks) of travel.
We hooked up, washed down, paid up, walked down to the restrooms, came back up to the boat and had dinner.
Vacation day 12. Very calm in the morning. Louise was all panicked that we were wedged into our slip and couldn’t get around the neighboring boats to get out. I didn’t see it as a problem. Luckily (for her) a boater that we had talked to a few times was up walking his dog and helped us shove off. We were underway at 7:30AM.
Foggy with a bit of rain as we left Ganges. Used radar and AIS and never missed a thing. The fog really wasn’t that dense and lifted around noon. Got a record beating depth sounder reading of 1077 feet in Boundary Passage - not bad for a shoot-through transducer. Pulled into Prevost Harbor to scope it out and take a few pictures.
Cleared customs in Friday Harbor. The best place as far as I am concerned. A phone call from the dock, a few questions, you slip your passports under a camera and you are on your way. The only downside is that there is a lot of ‘wave action’ out there. Fender yourself well. Like at Sidney, we were the only ones on this customs dock as well - an hour later when I walked by the dock it was totally full.
Even though we were ‘first come, first served’ we got a ‘reserved’ slip near shore - E5. The reserved slips have numbers less than ~35. Good cantenna spot. We walked up to Kings market and bought a steak to share for dinner. We had bought an excellent one ‘on the way out’ and ate it in Reid Harbor.
The NOAA weather reports mentioned wind over 20 knots for Monday - environmental Canada said 10 knots. If we needed a weather day, I couldn’t keep this slip but I could ask for a ‘first come slip’ after 9:30AM on Monday morning.
A couple of Canadian Willard-lovers stopped by and we talked and then walked the docks looking for Willards - found 3 not counting mine (and not counting Quasar moored in bay).
It turns out that Louise’s friends were on San Juan Island for the weekend and were waiting for the ferry in town on Sunday night. Fractured serendipity did not bring us together. More bluegrass in the park on Sunday. Same music, different gray beards.
A provisioning stop, we were up early the next morning to buy ice, breakfast and other sundries. We bought a block of ice for the first time - and a bag of cubed. The block seemed to last longer, however it was harder to make into ‘vodka and diet cokes’.
Vacation days 10 & 11. Underway at 10:30AM. Uneventful, easy travel. Some sun, no wind, no rain, no fog. Some opposing currents. The Swartz Bay area is ‘BC ferry central’ and it was nice to have AIS in this area.
Chose Salt Spring Marina because Ganges Marina went to voice-mail when I called on Thursday afternoon. Two nights for $75 plus $5 per day for electricity - my slip was near 30 amp power but not all were. Free Wifi. Note that everyone else needed to walk up to the office to get signal. The cantenna pulled the signal in loud and clear. I was on F dock (the closest dock to shore) so your cantenna mileage may vary. There were other signals to choose from as well.
The owner/manger said that this was the year for the big remodel. The entire marina comes out and a new one gets pasted in. This is probably a good thing as the docks are pretty rustic for being a destination this far south. I would not want to be out on the outside of the breakwater dock, beam-on to the waves in a south wind.
You can rent a car or motorbike near the office. There is Marine service as well as a restaurant-pub here as well. You can buy fresh pastry at the coffee shop - closed on weekends. The restrooms and showers are in the laundry room which is part of a larger building. There are 2 shower rooms (men’s and woman’s) with two stalls each. Sort of like taking a shower at a fitness club. The two restrooms are not designated men’s or woman’s. Showers are pricey and take loonies. Laundry was several dollars more than Sidney - we did not need to do it. The area was always very clean and tidy. The woman that runs the place is very high energy. The young girl that worked the docks was very nice and reminded me of the dock girl I met in Telegraph Harbor when I went boating there with my parents in 1967. There is something interesting about Canadian women.
The walk to town is about 1/4 mile and is super easy - just a bit noisy as it is along the major Island road. Ganges is a bit ‘quaint’ and caters to art and craft buyers. There is a great supermarket there with fresh baked goodies. I bought a Nanaimo bar, not as good as my mom’s. Lots of restaurants. We walked back and had appetizers and a drink at Pub at the marina (Moby’s - sauteed calamari, excellent) and then had leftover Thai food on the boat for dinner.
Day 2
Went to the Saturday Market at about 11AM. Everything there has to be locally created. It was very crowded. Louise bought a couple of painted bottles. In town, I bought a tee shirt and a shot glass for my daughter’s ‘collection’ - 4 years of college and this is her hobby? The marina people asked if I would give up my 30 amp power to a boater that really needed those extra 15 amps that I was plugged into. I said sure and hooked up to 15 amp. They gave me $5 back.
Had a late dinner at Moby’s (lamb burgers - excellent) and listened to the Jazz band that was playing (under appreciated).
Vacation day 8 & 9. We were underway at 9AM. As soon as we had cell service (just outside of Reid Harbor) I called and reserved a slip at Sidney. I was assigned D43 - this is important for later. The east side of Haro was very calm and we eventually caught a westward current running out of Spieden Channel, so we were making good time. It was quite evident where the southern Haro current met the western Spieden current - and we slowed down a bit when we got there. Also, there was about 12 knots of southwest wind and where the the southerly current met the south wind there was quite a bit of turbulence. Most of this was south of us. So I would err on the side of ‘north’ when doing this again.
I really like clearing customs at Sidney. Land at the customs dock, pick up the phone, talk a bit, deny the existence of fruit and vegetables in your life, write down a number and you’re in. Surprise, they moved the customs and party docks around. As we pulled away from the customs dock (when we got there we were the only ones on the dock), a 28′ Carver Voyager that has a slip 5 boats down from me in Des Moines pulled up - they were oblivious of the ‘moment’. This was one of two Des Moines boats we saw at Sidney - the other was the MV Sea Ya. On my 2007 trip there was a boat here from my dock as well.
Checkout time is 11AM and it was about that time, so I called on the VHF (66A) and learned my slip was not available. So we decided to take a trip over to Sidney Spit. I thought that maybe I could get to the dock or pick up a buoy. I could see the dock but could not get to it. I could see buoys but could not get to them. Boy is it shallow around there. There were a bunch of old facts rolling around in my mind, and my eyes and depth sounder confirmed them. I stopped dead in my tracks and reversed my way out. There is a bit of marked channel to get in closer, but I didn’t feel like risking it, so we headed back to Sidney.
As we re-approached Sidney I called again on the VHF to see if D43 was available. Dock guy responded and said he’d look but then a boater came on and said that he was assigned D43 and was just going out for the day and would be back. The desk girl came on and said she’d look it up. They talked a bit and he mentioned that he was assigned the slip Monday to Tuesday. When he was told that today was Wednesday, he sheepishly replied that he would take another slip if available. For us, 2 nights plus 3 shower tokens was $99. Power is $3 a night. The customs dock was full with a ‘waiting list’ as we pulled in to the marina.
D43 was a 40′ slip with a great view - I had even called the girl back on the phone that morning to ask her if she knew she was putting me into a 40′ slip. This is the first time I had been anywhere but the short slips on A dock. Is the universe conspiring to get me to buy a 40′ boat?
Did the usual Sidney things: bookstores, laundry, buy AC&C, showers (Louise doesn’t like the showers here - no curtains, this time somebody took all the stools and put them in their stall, machines are jammed and out of service because people use loonies instead of tokens - $2.50 per token). Had dinner at Fish on 5th - upset my stomach.
Day 2
Took the 9AM bus to Butchart Gardens. Back by 1PM. Get to Butchart as early as possible to avoid the crowds - unless of course you actually like humans. The tour buses really started showing up in mass around noon. Took a lot of pictures with my old camera. I forgot the ‘less than telephoto’ lens for the Sony at home. Did the Thursday market. This market starts late in the afternoon. Ate at the Thai place - very good. Bought an extra dish and had leftovers for dinner at our next stop. Very windy in the afternoon both days.
Vacation day 6 & 7. Fueled up before we left for Stuart Island. This made our departure time around 10:30AM. The W36 Quasar as well as the W30 Scallywag were buoyed in the bay so I took a couple of shots of each before I left.
San Juan channel can be a slog - current, lots of (serious) pleasure boat wakes, some wind (opposing current). We passed my old Gulf 27 sailboat mid channel (ex Tenure, now called Serenity). Looked like the new owner was sans family and alone - motoring and really rolling in the wakes etc. It’s a 5.5 knot boat. Tried to hail him on the VHF but was unable to connect. Saw him roll his jib out a bit later. Interesting anecdote: when we were in Ganges, Louise ran into a woman who said that she had heard us hailing ‘Serenity’ that day - we should all hail serenity every day.
Got into Reid Harbor around noon. Good timing brought us a buoy - I have a yearly state park pass so moorage is ‘free’. All dock space (there are 2 floating docks as well as a land-based dock) was full but there was still lots of room on the linear moorage. Throughout the day additional buoys became available. Lots of people just anchored. I would rather get a buoy. Less chance for ‘issues’, either self induced or the results of decisions made by other people. When we walked across the isthmus and over to Prevost Harbor that afternoon, there was still room on that dock. Most boaters seem to want to be untethered to land around here.
Got the dinghy in the water and the 1970’s Sears and Roebuck outboard attached to it. The motor ran quite well. Sure it’s loud and smokes a bit but it seems to power the dinghy along quite nicely. Getting the dinghy on and off the roof is a pain and if I did it on a regular basis there would be a new system.
Did a walk around the park but decided to save any major walking for the next day.
At about 8PM a guy in about a 30′ sailboat motors by and asks me if this is Bedwell Harbor. He said he had no charts and was looking for Canada. I pointed him in the general direction (over that hill). He asked me ‘how long’ it would take to get there and I said ‘how fast do you go’, he said ‘about 8′ - I said ‘maybe a couple hours’.
Day 2
In the morning we walked to the old schoolhouse and then to Turn Point light station. Off and on clouds and sun. Bought IOU tee shirts from the chest by the school - you take a tee shirt and then send a check later. The walk from the harbor to the light station is rigorous but fun. There are some long mild grades and some short steep grades. Just when I would begin to congratulate myself for being in such great shape for hiking, we would meet some kid doing the trip in flip flops or a 80-year old white haired gramma returning from the point.
No cell phone in Reid harbor. Canadian roaming from Turn Point - long way to walk to make a phone call.
In Reid harbor there was a guy on a nearby Sundowner tug trying to make a phone call. He stood on the highest deck his boat had to offer and held his phone up as high as he could reach - like Ahab’s harpoon looking for a new lightning. Each of us has their own white whale, his was communication.
Although a sign said some residents may have satellite Internet, this is not a good cantenna site.
My dinghy has had a water leak since day one. It is somewhere at the back - I believe it is at the drain plug. It only leaks when the stern is low in the water. It didn’t do bad in the water over night, but after some running around on day 2 there was water under the floorboards. I have tried Vaseline, rubber cement and after I hauled it out at Reid Harbor, Permatex gasket maker.
By my less than scientific count there were nearly 100 boats in Reid Harbor this night.
Willard Vega Voyager
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