Fishing

It had been a week if cool windy weather down here on the water. Today we had a bit of sun and the water was calm.

Bill and Linda came along and brought their grandson, Manny.

Manny was aboard Kimball's Babe last year for his birthday.

Proud grandparents

Bill did the lines. Will at the helm.

off we went out into the harbor headed for our favorite fishing spot.

While the guys fished Manny had fun playing with buckets of water.

Manny liked seeing the fish but didn't want to touch them. We caught lots of tinkers, ones too small to keep.

We ended up with a few more dinners of mackerel. Kathy cleaned them and put them all in the fridge and we headed back to the dock.

About half way there it happened. Bill yelled" you have lots of water coming in." And sure enough water was a squirting in. We had a hole in the water intake pipe of the cooling system. We made it back to the dock slow and easy with Bill keeping a constant watch that we had water coming out the exhaust. If the water would not have been coming out the engine would overheat and that would cause major problems.

The hole is small, but needs repaired. We called our diesel repair man, Ryan. He is on vacation but will send someone out to have a look sometime this week.

We said "See you later" to our guests. Everyone had a nice afternoon. Hope you did too

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