Today is the day. Today is the day diver Darryll saves Trouper 2. I was up at 6, made coffee and at 07:00 Darryll and Tim met me in the yacht club parking lot.

Today marks the end of 8 months of wondering why I couldn't reach hull speed under engine alone. After thinking it was transmission / engine related or a missing or damaged propeller, it turns out the problem was simply a dirty bottom. Darryll and tim had the bottom scrubbed, zincs replaced and my mooring inspected, all in less than 2 hours. After I had returned them to shore, I took T2 out for a spin.

You can't imagine how relieved I was to be slicing through the water at 6.5 knotts! I hadn't seen this kind of performance in a long time. In retrospect there has been a gradual erosion of performance over the past year or so. Thanks so much Diver Darryll and Tim from  Bottom Feeders &
Anchor Marine Services. Also a shout out to Gartside Marine and their candor it assuring me it was a bottom issue and not mechanical, right from the getgo.

On the other end of things, so to speak, it would appear it's time to replace my ground tackle before storm season (October).

Diver Darryll Saves Trouper 2