Not much has happened in recent days. A quick synopsis:
The COSEE survey finished up nicely, Duluth is still a great town (temperature was much more cooperative), 3 hours before we made it back to Milwaukee our Turbocharger blew up.
What? Turbo...did what?
Yep, blew up. The shaft fracture and ripped the unit in half, rendering our portside engine dead.
Then there was the fireball that blew the stack cover off...think: car backfiring.
We spent 4 days in Milwaukee prepping for the big shebang -- the summer survey....and waiting for our new turbo to arrive (it did, and it's working...for now)
The summer survey is a 4 week excursion through every basin of each of the 5 Great Lakes (Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario and Superior in order). I will be lucky to feel land for this time.
The first shift has been a spectacular display of midwest lightning storms. Thunder in the distance soon became a full on storm cell. I felt like the boat was on the inside of one of those static electricity balls looking out. Bolts of lightning were hitting the water in all 360 degrees. The thunder was rapid and deafening at times. At one point, we broke into a clearing, with the sunset on our starboard and the everlasting lightning show on our left. Once the sun did set, we were overtaken by another cell and the night sky looked like a sheet with many fluorescent lightbulbs struggling to stay on. Rapidly flashing bright, then off, then dim, then bright in a random pattern. Very cool stuff.
The COSEE survey finished up nicely, Duluth is still a great town (temperature was much more cooperative), 3 hours before we made it back to Milwaukee our Turbocharger blew up.
What? Turbo...did what?
Yep, blew up. The shaft fracture and ripped the unit in half, rendering our portside engine dead.
Then there was the fireball that blew the stack cover off...think: car backfiring.
We spent 4 days in Milwaukee prepping for the big shebang -- the summer survey....and waiting for our new turbo to arrive (it did, and it's working...for now)
The summer survey is a 4 week excursion through every basin of each of the 5 Great Lakes (Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario and Superior in order). I will be lucky to feel land for this time.
The first shift has been a spectacular display of midwest lightning storms. Thunder in the distance soon became a full on storm cell. I felt like the boat was on the inside of one of those static electricity balls looking out. Bolts of lightning were hitting the water in all 360 degrees. The thunder was rapid and deafening at times. At one point, we broke into a clearing, with the sunset on our starboard and the everlasting lightning show on our left. Once the sun did set, we were overtaken by another cell and the night sky looked like a sheet with many fluorescent lightbulbs struggling to stay on. Rapidly flashing bright, then off, then dim, then bright in a random pattern. Very cool stuff.
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