Trip dates:
Thursday, September 7, 2023
Trip length:
1 day
Type of watercraft:
Sail
A moment of excitement on the photo boat!
Motoring out of my marina and turning east towards the mark I hadn't been underway 10 minutes when the diesel stopped. Fortunately no bang, grind or squeel. Opening the genoa immediately I continued on to my planned anchor point. The fuel gauge said 60%. It then dawned on me that it's been at 60%, like forever... Yep, gauge or more likely sending unit failure. A squeeze of the bulb confirmed no fuel in the line.
The scary thing is that I had motored into our narrow channel in total darkness during peak tidal flow the other night returning from Tangier as I unknowingly was on the edge of fuel exhaustion. It's good to be lucky...