6/26 & 6/27 East Tawas - weather layover days ⛈️☔️

 Monday found us sitting at the dock with the rain and wind pushing us to the dreaded boat chores. Renee got into some deep cleaning as we didn’t take time for that stuff when we got here. Bathrooms cleaned, walls wiped down, bedding washed, floors vacuumed, and then to oiling the teak 😳.  While Renee cleaned Erik climbed into the engine compartment to try to trace down the fuel issue.  Both engines appear to be mostly drawing from the same tank 🫤. 

It’s not all relaxing….

Found a vacuum hose off going between carb and fuel pump off while searching around   

Suspect fuel filters

Removed stone filters and soaked in penetrating oil and starting fluid to clean them

We’ll see 🤷 

 The valves all appear to be in the open position so he began by checking out the fuel filters.  One appeared to have come apart and both were nasty!!! He set off to the auto parts store to replace a vacuum hose that had come off, then to the hardware store for a washer to put the fuel filter back together.  Once the vacuum hose was back on and fuel filters cleaned and back in, we fired up the engines, both appeared to be running fine, so we will have to burn some gas and see if it’s coming out of both tanks.   We are pretty good at burning gas (if you have been following us you know that 😂🤣).  Renee thought maybe that was the reason the generator kept dying, not getting fuel, so we fired the generator up and it actually stayed running for a little bit.  It actually died under air conditioner load so still not running right 😖.  Erik took a little nap after putting the saloon floor back together, and Renee finished up by cleaning the grill.

We went to Mango’s for dinner with Elizabeth and Larry (on QE II ).  After a wonderful visit and dinner we walked to the park to catch the community band finishing up a free concert.  Back to the boat for a movie and bed!

                                                               Seniors rocking the park! 😝 

Tuesday we awoke again to drizzly rain, wind, and the smoke from the Canadian fires had moved in.  A very lazy morning included blueberry pancakes and peppered bacon, a Netflix movie, looking at weather and next stops, then an AA meeting at noon.  On the way home from the meeting we stopped into a little store that specializes in healthy dog treats and got Riva a frisbee.  

She loves her new frisbee

The remainder of the afternoon was spent watching another movie and doing some banking, then a delicious dinner of smoked pork chops and baked beans. Yes a boring day on the boat, but those are needed sometimes!  We are well rested for tomorrows adventures.