Now public at:

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/g...NKg6dUecbqTJzn

right now, it shows where we had breakfast but should be on the boat later
this morning.

ETD now Thursday morning.

--
Roger Long

On Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:04:44 -0400, "Roger Long"
wrote:

Now public at:

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/g...NKg6dUecbqTJzn

right now, it shows where we had breakfast but should be on the boat later
this morning.

ETD now Thursday morning.

Looks like your off and running. SPOT shows you going east along the
north shore of Lake Erie at 16 kts. The Lake E weather buoy is
reporting ESE winds at 17 gusting 21 with seas at 3.6 ft. That would
make the wind on deck somewhere in the mid 30s. Sounds a bit brisk
but probably a fun ride on that boat if you don't have to go outside.

http://www.wunderground.com/MAR/buoy/45005.html

Wayne.B wrote in
news
Looks like your off and running. SPOT shows you going east along the
north shore of Lake Erie at 16 kts. The Lake E weather buoy is
reporting ESE winds at 17 gusting 21 with seas at 3.6 ft. That would
make the wind on deck somewhere in the mid 30s. Sounds a bit brisk
but probably a fun ride on that boat if you don't have to go outside.

http://www.wunderground.com/MAR/buoy/45005.html


Brrr.....I had to kick up the heat a notch just thinking about it....(c;

It'll be fun watching them come through the locks.

"Roger Long" wrote in news:gdn4t2$hco$1
@registered.motzarella.org:

ETD now Thursday morning.


Making great headway. They are at Longpoint Provincial Park, now. That
brings back some great memories. When I was a boy, we camped at Longpoint
Provincial park in our little teardrop pop-open camper my dad built.

It was our first camping trip into Canada. The guy taking our rental app
says, "Do you want 'hydro'?". Dad had no idea what he was talking about so
said he did. We found out later "hydro" means electric power, so that
worked out good. It was cold at night and that little electric heater came
in handy on the "hydro". I think the campsite cost us about 75c and
"hydro" was an extra dollar. I suppose that would pay to walk across the
park, now...(c;

The satellite images look like they have nice camping spaces, now. It was
just an open field with some power outlets in those days of the early
1960's.

Well, back to sea....Everything must be running great to make this headway.

On 23 Oct 2008 15:06:06 GMT, Larry wrote:

It'll be fun watching them come through the locks.

Do you have a good webcam site for the canal and/or locks ?

Wayne.B wrote in
:

On 23 Oct 2008 15:06:06 GMT, Larry wrote:

It'll be fun watching them come through the locks.

Do you have a good webcam site for the canal and/or locks ?



Not the Welland, sorry.

They should really stop somewhere along the Welland and change the oil in
those brand new diesels before crossing Ontario. They've easily gotten the
hours on it for that first, important oil change at this point. Even if
they changed the oil before they left, they should do one after this hard
run which will stir up any metal filings left in it from the manufacturer.

Oil change and filters.....every 20 hours for the first 100 is a good idea.

Those bearings are wearing in and contaminating it as they smooth
themselves.

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:59:34 +0000, Larry wrote:

Wayne.B wrote in
:

On 23 Oct 2008 15:06:06 GMT, Larry wrote:

It'll be fun watching them come through the locks.

Do you have a good webcam site for the canal and/or locks ?



Not the Welland, sorry.

They should really stop somewhere along the Welland and change the oil in
those brand new diesels before crossing Ontario. They've easily gotten the
hours on it for that first, important oil change at this point. Even if
they changed the oil before they left, they should do one after this hard
run which will stir up any metal filings left in it from the manufacturer.

Oil change and filters.....every 20 hours for the first 100 is a good idea.

Those bearings are wearing in and contaminating it as they smooth
themselves.

As you can't stop once into the Welland Canal, it would be a good idea
to do the oil change at Port Colborne, right at the entrance to the
canal. Did that trip last year going the other way, once you enter
the system there's nowhere to stop that I could see. We did it at
night as some commercial stuff got ahead of us.

Jan
"If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined"

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 18:59:34 +0000, Larry wrote:

Oil change and filters.....every 20 hours for the first 100 is a good idea.

That would be extremely conservative. They probably changed it after
the sea trials which should be good enough for the trip. No big deal
if they do change it however. I'd bet anything they have an oil
change system that will pump out the old oil into a holding tank and
then pump new oil in from a supply tank. The whole thing can be done
in less than 10 minutes per engine, underway if necessary by shutting
down first one side and then the other.

On 23 Oct 2008 17:48:46 GMT, Larry wrote:

"Roger Long" wrote in news:gdn4t2$hco$1
:

ETD now Thursday morning.


Making great headway. They are at Longpoint Provincial Park, now. That
brings back some great memories. When I was a boy, we camped at Longpoint
Provincial park in our little teardrop pop-open camper my dad built.

It was our first camping trip into Canada. The guy taking our rental app
says, "Do you want 'hydro'?". Dad had no idea what he was talking about so
said he did. We found out later "hydro" means electric power, so that
worked out good. It was cold at night and that little electric heater came
in handy on the "hydro". I think the campsite cost us about 75c and
"hydro" was an extra dollar. I suppose that would pay to walk across the
park, now...(c;

The satellite images look like they have nice camping spaces, now. It was
just an open field with some power outlets in those days of the early
1960's.

Well, back to sea....Everything must be running great to make this headway.

I hope they stay fairly well off the point, I nearly ran aground there
last year as the sand-bar had shifted, at least according to my chart
it had.g I doubt if $1.75 would get you much there now Larry, I
think it's about $9 just for a reservation. It certainly is a lovely
place to camp though, been there many times with the kids.

Jan
"If you can't take a joke, you shouldn't have joined"

On Thu, 23 Oct 2008 15:40:37 -0400, Gogarty
wrote:

Boo hoo. I can't make SPOT work. All I get is an empty page with the SPOT
logo.

Do you have Java and/or JavaScript enabled ?