Position
N 57d 57.50
W 136d 13.70
A guy and some friends established a cold storage along the Lisianski Inlet and named it after his boat, The Pelican.
As we were coming up to Pelican we could not raise the
Harbormaster since it was Sunday and they were not working. So we came in slowly and found there
was an empty end berth. The wind
was 20 knots, only wind we have seen in nearly four days but as we were coming
along side a couple of guys jumped out and helped us with our lines. Just as we were coming alongside we
lost our tachometer. Once we were
safely tied up, Mark began investigating to find that the tach wire got snagged
by a loose fan belt. The fan belt
had split a layer off and had a flappy piece of cloth, which snagged the tach
wire and pulled it into the pulley.
We noticed a couple of missing cable ties on the wire harness so this
probably left the tach wire a bit more exposed. We fixed a new one and then decided we would stay two days in
Pelican in order to change the belts the next day. So off we went for a walk. Pelican is a boardwalk town, most of the houses and
buildings are built on stilts.
They are serviced by lots of floatplanes, so part of the entertainment
is watching float planes take off, land and taxi right next to your boat. The next day we checked in with the
harbormaster and purchased a couple of spare Racor filters before taking on the
task of changing belts. Belt
changes on this engine are never easy so we decided to do some changes to make
it slightly easier. It is still
troublesome but a bit easier. We
then went up to have a late lunch at the café we were told about, that is run by
Matt and Dana’s friend. We were
too late, she only does breakfast and lunch but we had a brief conversation
with her and said we would be back for breakfast the next day before we
departed.
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