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February 10, 2006
Oh Crap!
The New River was lots of fun, right in the heart of downtown Fort Lauderdale, close to shopping, restaurants, bars, etc. But busy with boat traffic, narrow, and full of crap! Like leaves, grass, seeds, garbage...
We draw "raw" water, from what we float on, into our boat to (i) flush toilets, (ii) run air conditioning, (iii) run the engine, and (iv) run the generator. It was hot one evening, so we cranked on the A/C and soon.. grrrr, buzzzz, bleee.
The raw water intake was so plugged with crap so we shut everything down. It was so jammed, we had to set out to sea to flush the entire system. And I mean the ENTIRE system. What a mess, it tooks us several hours to get everything worked through the system.
Needless to say, we returned to Bahia Mar, our least favourite place, for the satisfaction of cleaner water and higher fees. Ahhh, welcome back!
Posted by dave at February 10, 2006 06:50 PM