All, thanks for the kind comments, welcome and suggestions. We are starting to work on things now.
A few weeks ago we motored our boat from Solomons Island Md to Annapolis. Started off great...crazy sunshine and warm. First problem...everything going great but I noticed that the engine temp was rising. Hmmm, thinking about it and the temp rising, thinking about it and the temp rising...then, OMG, forgot to open the engine cooling seacock. Ugh. Funny thing, give it water and the temp goes down.
Then we entered the bay, 20+ knot winds and where the the warmth go? We went from t-shirts and shorts to jeans, wool socks, sweatshirts and coats within 45 minutes. And for the next seven hours the cold wind literally shoved us north. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr the whole way.
The good news, the engine purred at 2800 RPM the whole way. Constant temp and surprisingly quiet for the diesel. The bad news, we had this stupid idea at the four our mark to put up our jib. This great increased our speed...GPS regularly seven to eight knots with several nine knots outlier readings. Our average GPS speed for the trip was 6.8knots. But up in Annapolis when the winds were really high our roller jammed and we had a heck of a time wrestling our boat to the little bay and creek where Whitehall Marina is. It was a nightmare.
Amazing how little fuel we used.
All in all, we got there "alive" but humbled and are now enjoying the boat, sailing and working on her.
These pictures are from the trip. The submarine was visiting the Naval Academy. Also, noticed the jib picture...it didn't unroll completely and I should have known that there was a problem with the roller. Ugh again.