the BBQ.
Carefully light the unit. This Barbeque cooks fairly hot and fast so keep a
good eye on your food.
DINGHY AND OUTBOARD MOTOR
Your 10.6’ West Marine dingy is equipped with a 3.5 hp engine. If not on the dinghy
it is stored
on the rail bracket.
After the dinghy is in the water and readied to go (PFDs etc), open the vent in the
fuel tank and choke the engine once while starting. Make sure outboard is in
neutral.
Please use extreme care in beaching your dinghy. Make sure the engine gets tilted
up a safe distance from shore so the prop does not hit the bottom or shear the pin.
Do not drag the boat on the beach. Please lift it up with your crew. Make sure it is
secured as the tide comes in fast in these here parts.
OTHER NOTES
Safety should be paramount to your daily cruising. A man overboard drill should be
discussed and practiced with an unlucky PFD as the victim. (Please rinse and dry
afterward before stowing). Remember that your lifejackets are stowed in
the salon.
A few should always be readily available. Flares and other safety equipment are
located in the salon.
Always have a sharp lookout posted for logs, deadheads, or other flotsam and
jetsam. A log hitting your prop can ruin your vacation. As you are traveling, the
debris does seem to gather along current lines. It is sometimes best to go around
these areas and miss the “mine fields”.
MAGGIE is equipped with numerous automatic bilges pumps that can be activated on
the DC panel. The switch should normally be left in the “Auto” position can be
switched for a minute or so to “manual” to pump the bilge. If you continually hear
the bilge pump running,
check your bilge!
You may have a serious problem!
An auxiliary hand-operated bilge pump is located in the cockpit.
The engine spares are located in the nav bench. They include extra oil filters,
impellers, head pump, etc. Extra oil and coolant is located in the cockpit lockers.
Crabbing is fun but requires the correct license and season. Please be sure not to
crab off the stern as the crab line can easily get tangled in your prop as you swing
with wind or current. You certainly don’t want to be the person who has to dive over
and cut the line out of the propeller. It is best to use the dinghy to set your crab
pot/ring away from the boat. A partially open can of seafood catfood works well as
any other bait and is less messy. Please clean up any seaweed of crab shells
afterwards to keep the boat neat and tidy.
