Let the Season Begin!

Well, we're finally in the water for our 3rd summer aboard Mooring Glory! She's 50 yrs young this year (1968 Cal 2-30) so it's going to be a constant celebration doing what she does best SAILING! Anyone up in the Northeast may see us cruising between the Cape and toward Casco Bay Maine. (Hull #100 is shown on our Sail so we'll be easy to recognize.) Enjoy a few pics of this years launch. Pretty smooth drop in except we missed the incoming tide in the river by only a couple of hours, but it was enough time to let the river flow to about 4.5 kts! Made it interesting to try and back out of the launch slip. All is good and the ol'girl is happily awaiting the official shake down cruise this long holiday weekend if the weather will ever cooperate. Enjoy your boats friends! -Michael & Lisa.

Let the season continue! Now....Shall I or shall I not do the Catalina or Bust race, with BBQ and drunken orgy at the Isthmus, and race back the next day, or not?Will my rotten back withstand the ordeal?I just went thru hell and back fixing my Johnson Salimaster 4, and now it runs better than ever since I picked it up on Craigslist.I had an overheating problem and took the bottom prop assembly off, no easy feat with the the 5"x1/4" S.S. bolts nearly fused to the aluminum housing. And when I finally got it apart I found the impeller looked like new, except looking well rusted onto the driveshaft. The cooling system was clogged in green crud, which I managed to get into the crankcase and cylinders in the process of trying to remove it. I was going to pump acid up the copper line leading up from the water pump, then I said, why not flip the power head upside down, and fill the whole durn thing up with vinegar and let it sit for a day. 3 hours later it dawned on me that the aluminum shafts housing was also the motor's exhaust pipe, and therefore what I did was get whole motor flooded with vinegar. And then trying to get the bottom end back together with the top end, blinding trying to insert the drive shaft into the crankcase, the shifter rod into the plunger hole and the water pump outlet tube into the pump outlet hole...HA! nearly impossible! But...not impossible. There's the rub. I spent all week cussing "American Engineering". Jerry of Shpritz, ye venerable olde Cal24-1, mother of all Cals. On Friday, May 25, 2018, 6:39:08 AM PDT, wy… [at] gmail.com [Cal_Boats] <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> wrote: