Goodbye Winchelsea?
Overall, things have been reletively routine in Newport. Work is going very well, Green and Isaac have let me take the boat from the dock a few times now, as well as let me decide where I want the sail to go based on wind, current and time. I'm learning a lot. Isaac has also starting giving me advice as I pull together documents for my captains license, which I should be able to apply for later this year. On Winchelsea, things are not going as smoothly. I have spent the past week tracking down a decent outboard. My plan was to attach an outboard to the bottom of the transom, and use that as my aux power while I spend the summer rebuilding the inboard. Well, $1700 and two whole days later I have an outboard and the specialized vertically adjustable mounting bracket...that doesn't fit. Winchelsea's transom sticks too far out of the water, and mounting it in the lowest possible place and then lowering the outboard all the way down (which is a long shaft outboard) the prop wo