BOAT REPAIR

April 22-24, 2026

Heading up to Myrtle Beach, while I was driving (of course), we lost steering. We could only go up to 1500 RPM on the one engine which meant going slow. An engine technician came out and diagnosed a fault in our steering drive. An easy fix, right? Wrong. It required us going up to Wilmington, NC, having the boat taken out of the water and two Volvo Penta technicians from Myrtle Beach driving up to spend the day repairing it. Finally tally-$16,000. Yep, this is not for the faint of heart. Good news, we really liked Wilmington and when we move to an RV, definitely plan to come back.

Nice lunch out on a barge that sits on the Cape Fear river.