ACE Delivery to National Yacht Club

Holiday Monday is ACE's first race; NYC's "Round the Island" race.
Regular Wednesday night racing starts next week.

Barb drove Mike and Michael out to Whitby for the delivery.  Unfortunately, I have too much on the go to go for the ride.  Winds were forecast for very light all night, so it would be a motor.

The new shift level mechanism seemed to be working fine.  The boys pushed off the dock in forward to pickup a table that Mike had left across the bay.

When they got the table by the pump out shack above, the boat went into reverse no problem, but would not go back into forward.  They limped back to the end of dock 4 and rafted up off a Whitby 42 to troubleshoot.  I went and got the CS34 Still Time and rafted off them.

GPS track from the slip:

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Turns out the shift and throttle cables need adjustment.  Mike got the shift cable tightened and we could easily shift from neutral to forward and reverse.  However, the throttle cable was more troublesome. 

They pushed off and could only be the motor up to 1,100 RPM and make about 3 knots of speed.  Not enough power to unfold the prop, so some severe vibrations.  Plus the engine was severely smoking:

Cough Cough

Going out Whitby Habour:

Cough Cough Cough
Shake Shake Shake

I followed them in Still Time for a bit.  Out on Lake Ontario, Mike was able to tighten the throttle cable and the motor came to life, propelling the boat over 6 knots and no smoking:

Like the storm jib/table on the bow!

Reports are that they made it to National safely.

Trip Odometer: 26.86 miles
Moving Average: 6.1 knots
Moving Time: 04:24:00

Google Earth Track: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12535935/Still%20Time/2015/20150514.kmz

The handheld GPS had them leaving WYC at 3:45pm and arriving at NYC a little after 8pm.