Some friends and their two draughters joined us for a three day get away to Moreton Island.
They arrived nice and early and we set off down the river. About quarter of the way just as we were about to go past one of the ferry terminals everything went quiet. Now that’s how we like it when we are sailing, but we were motoring down the river. “Were” being the operative word.
We quickly dropped anchor and Sue called up on the VHF radio to let the ferries know we had problems. It didn’t taken long for me to work out that the fuel pump wasn’t pumping. Because of the way this boat is set up, I could switch over to the electric fuel pump. The electric fuel pump pumped fuel to a twenty litre header tank which could gravity feed the engine.
Back on the road again, well river. We headed down river with a now incoming tide, which meant we were down to quarter our normal slow speed.
Once out of the river the sails went up, motor went off and the quiet was wonderful, just the sound of the water lapping against the hull and the breeze in the sails.
Two days of fishing swimming and climbing the sand dunes, then it was back to Brisbane and fix the fuel pump.
