Crusty Chief
Guru
No marina's in Alaska.
City floats from town to town.
Good to know, thanks Nomad.
No marina's in Alaska.
City floats from town to town.
Wait a minute less marinas???? Oh I am so going to whine next summer....
John
Great post! Completed our first upNorth trip from Portland this year and plan on returning soon. Curious about your $33k trip cost. Was that for the trip expense itself or did that include your vessel upgrades too?
Kevin
Maybe I should expand on the total expense. As a few have sent PMs asking about it.
We left home (Las Vegas) on Feb 24th and didn't return home until Oct 9th, the total expense is what we spent during that time. Food, alcohol, cigars, boat maintenance, artwork, Moorage, fuel, boat improvement, gifts, rental cars, travels as well as restaurant and entertainment. I'm sure other stuff is in there somewhere.
Some may think that this was a pretty high number, and it was a bit more than we budgeted, but we had a blast and we would do it again. Now, next trip we probably won't stay in as many marinas and that alone should save a big chunk.
Hope that clarifies things a bit for those who thought it was high.
Cheers
I'll just bring ya a good Cigar and a bottle of Scotch, that will reduce the whining!
John, Thanks for the update on your expenses. We are located upriver from you at Tyee YC.
As the marinas/floats/city docks in Alaska are upgraded they are required to add GFCI shore power. You need an isolation transformer for these. Only ones I recall currently were one of the harbors in Juneau and Petersburg (maybe Wrangell--can't remember for sure).
It's a great trip.
Doing it again next year.
Ken
Forewarning..I'm an electrical idiot.
As I understand it...our all knowing government requires Ground Fault circuits be placed whenever any marina, docks, etc are upgraded from current condition.
These are not compatible with most boats. I understand they "sense" current in and current out and if it varies by just a couple microvolts it assumes leakage somewhere (into the water I guess) and trips the breaker.
I have a fore and aft shore power plug and one person recommended I get an isolation transformer for each. I asked why we couldn't wire it into the One/Two/Gen selector switch and the response was...Hey, a good idea. That is what was done. That should have been a hint for me but I "needed" one.
Marine Isolators / Transformers / Boosters
We hope to be heading north early May. Please stay in touch and maybe we can do a little Buddy boating alone with ASD.
Jeezzz
I don't want to have a ASD moment and burn up appliances because of my ignorance. ( Tom, I'm not saying your ignorant , just using your experience last year as an example) Help a brother out please!
ASD said:What now wait a minute!!!! I was worse than ignorant, I was a dumba$$! I plugged into 50amp, 250Vac is what I did. Blew up the microwave. In the process of installing it now.....
Tom
How was it possible to plug a 120 v shore plug into a 240v receptacle? The diameter of the circle of contacts is supposed to be different. significantly bigger for 240v than for 120v...simply wont fit.
Did the 33K include any mortgage or insurance or was the figure your unit cost of your adventure?
Heck, I went on a cruise to Alaska, went to Denali, caught and sent home 120 pounds of Halibut and in 14 days spent $11K . License for two, two charters, tips, processing..
Ranch hand @ $20, car at the airport $18 it all adds up
I would do it again in a heart beat.