Everything on your boat is broken -- you just don't know it yet

We're finishing the end of our first week in Brewerton, NY.  the good news is that many of our chores were done early in the week, replaced a fan, upgraded the entertainment electronics. The bad news is that Jim and the mechanics here at Ess Kay Yards spent most of the week running inconclusive diagnostic tests on the generator which suddenly decided to stop producing electricity. Finally, on Friday, the group decision was to replace the entire gen set.  OK, so we have a plan.  The bad news is that it is the Friday before Memorial Day which will mess with the shipping. The part will only take a day to install once it gets here, but it may not get here until Thursday.  Oh well.

In the meantime, we've seen a couple of movies and visited with our friends Don and Ruth Kalen who are spending the summer as resident volunteers at the Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge here in central New York. Tomorrow the marina hosts a Memorial Day party for staff and boaters.  So far the delay hasn't affected our schedule overly much. We will still be starting up the Trent Severn Canal by mid-June and getting to the Georgian Bay by early July. If any of that changes, we'll let the guest who will be traveling with us in June and July know.