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I am glad you find my videos useful. Thanks for watching.

It wasn't meant to help anyone. I am simply documenting my recovery.

More coming soon. I have been a bit under the weather recently and haven't been out much. I am better now and will be getting out more.

I hope it goes well for you. They have improved surgery a lot since I had my first surgery 70 years ago. I had essentially zero pain while I was in the hospital. If you are staying overnight take a book, or some electronic device to fight off boredom. If you are scheduled to get out the same day they will keep you too busy for you to need anything.

Good luck! Getting in/out of bed is easy if you have someone to help you. Just be careful.

You are welcome. I will do an update this week. I have been putting it off until some changes I made had time to work out, or not.

My pleasure. I am glad you found it interesting.

I was apprehensive at first about the spiral staircase. The trick to doing them was take it one step at a time. I did carry a walker to the top of the spiral stairs and left it there before surgery. Good Luck!

It was quite comfortable since there was no wind.

My engine is a Westerbeke 46 that is also based on a Mitsubishi, but I don't know which one.

@todddunn945 I found this on the interweb "1985 W 46 is based on a Mitsubishi 4DQ5. Look at the rear of the block on the right side. " Totally unconfirmed, but you might be able to find the stamp on the block. Mine is stamped.

@@efrank39 I imagine it is stamped somewhere. Unfortunately because of the way my engine is mounted it is very hard to see the back of the engine. I will see if I can put my GoPro back there. Thanks.

You are very welcome. I was disappointed that about half of the path was closed. Hopefully it will be fully open next summer.

The Bar Harbor Inn did a great job rebuilding the path. Hopefully it will all be like that next summer.

I have no idea. Some of it might be covered if the homeowners had flood insurance, but who knows. Since the cost of waterfront property in Bar Harbor is in the millions, none of the property owners involved are poor, so that is also a consideration.

Our latest forecast has flurries in it too, but they are supposed to followed by about an inch of rain.

@@todddunn945 sorry, no snow, we actually had white ground cover, not on streets, last night and this morning.

@@williamthawley9251 I am quite happy with no snow. We are hoping to walk a carriage road after this storm, so we are hoping it stays all rain. We are planning to go to a waterfall which should be quite nice after an inch of rain.

@@todddunn945 yes, we saw the lack of rain in acadia, especially with the lake levels. where is the waterfall? we walked the carriage road around eagle lake, mainly because we found parking.

jordan pond, the stream that runs off of it, was dry.

It was a very pretty day. I manage with the knee. I can do whatever I want, but the muscles do ache after I walk around.

Thanks for the comment. I managed to do the last fiberglass work just before the nights got too cold for the epoxy to cure.

Yes, what I did firmed the foredeck up amazingly. I will do the rest in the Spring. The hard part will be making the repair disappear.

Thanks. I am making Lasagna tomorrow. My wife bought the turkey for last Thursday.

@@todddunn945 enjoy, we are having the traditional turkey. and thinking about next year in acadia and bar harbor.

@@williamthawley9251 I hope you have a great dinner and pleasant thoughts.

It goes all the way forward on mine #8.

So was I. It was in the 20s last night. The epoxy will cure at that temperature, but it takes a LONG time. So I am glad to be done for this Fall. I will restart work as soon as it warms up enough in late March or early April. Have a good winter Jeff.

The boat to starboard is a Bristol Channel Cutter 28. It looks great now because it just came out of the paint shop on Monday morning. The boat to port is an Axopar 37.

@@todddunn945 Thank you Todd. You seem to still have a lot of interesting older boats where you live. Not so much here in western NY anymore. I love the variety of boats still around in your area. Thanks again for the info!

@@saabtech3510 There are a lot of boats from the 60s thru the 80s. That period was the heyday for boat building around here with Hinckley, Morris and Able all turning out lots of boats. Unfortunately as far as sailboats go all are out of he business now. Hinckley still builds powerboats along with Ellis, but builders like Morris and Able are gone.

@@todddunn945 I think people are so involved with technology that the 'slower' joys of having the wind move your boat are fading. Many times when we sail, we are the only sailboat out that day. People around here still love to fish though.

@@saabtech3510 It is really different here. Most days where I sail there are from 20-40 sailboats out and fewer pleasure power boats. Fishing is also not much of a thing here because other than a few mackerel there are few fish here. As far as building sailboats goes, my thought is that they simply became too expensive and orders dried up. Also building powerboats is much more profitable.

My pleasure.

Not an issue.

I am pleased that you found the videos helpful. I am now just under 21 months out. The knee joint is fine but the muscles in my lower thigh are still messed up. Yesterday I spent two hours working on my knees and am paying for it today.

@ Sending you best wishes for a total recovery.

@@loriru3135 It is just taking more time than expected.

Thanks for the comment. I am glad you found it interesting.

My urologist said there was no evidence that I have prostate cancer, so I am good. Thank you.

My pleasure. Sorry I couldn't show the actual work, but I didn't want to epoxy coat my camera.

Yes that is a possibility except that the yard won't let me run any sort of heater overnight for insurance reasons. I can set up a heater in the morning to make it easier to do the layup, but I have to shut the heater down when I leave.

@todddunn945 That is a limitation.

@@jkepleriv Yes, but I agree with it. I never leave anything plugged in on the boat.

It went well, but took a lot longer than I expected.

Yes, I had a very good early recovery. If you watch my later videos during my recovery you will see that things slowed down. As you said everyone is different. I hope your recovery continues to go well.

I have all weather tires and never change them. I do know quite a few people who use studded tires. Now, in my case, since I am retired I don't drive in snow. Also since I own a snow plow, I always drive on freshly plowed roads when I do go out in the snow. I have lived in snowy places (Alaska, ALberta, Manitoba, New Brunswick and Maine) since 1978 and have never used winter tires of any kind. Here in Maine they are very good about keeping the roads clear and I have never felt the need for studded or winter tires. I also drive a 4 wheel drive truck and my wife has a Subaru.

@@todddunn945thank you!

My pleasure.

I am glad you found it informative.

You are very welcome. Thanks for watching.

It was a pretty day, but chilly.

Bar Harbor is much nicer this time of year. The next week is supposed to be warmer so it will be a good time to visit the park.

Yes it was a challenging drive, particularly dodging all the deer.

You are welcome Jeff.

Thank you.

Yes, that happened while I was out on the dock in Southwest Harbor. Most likely a Seagull. I put a note to that effect in the video.

I hope so too. The plan is to head over this afternoon (Nov 16).

Thanks Roger. Now all I need is for the weather to cooperate.

It is supposed to warm up on Friday and stay warm for about a week. I will get the piece I cut out replaced on Friday or Saturday and the next piece next week. After that it all depends on the weather. Thanks for the comment.

You are welcome.

When I moved to MDI the annual visits were well under half what they are now. It was annoying, but manageable. Now I have to deal with idiot tourists who think my driveway is a convenient place to park when visiting parts of Acadia. That is on top of the over crowding on virtually every trail and at every view point. This year it extended to the end of October.

@@todddunn945 Sell your place, make a bunch of money and move to a much less expensive undiscovered part of that beautiful state. Honestly the only tourist town in Maine ( in my opinion ) that has not been ruined is Camden. Its still a nice town and not all ice cream and Tshirts. It gets a little bust but not terrible. Rockport is great too. I feel your pain, we bought a sailboat and are spending a lot of our time sailing now too.

@@Rainmaker60LM Have you ever driven through Camden in the summer? Yeah, I could sell my house and take the piddly million or two I would get for it, but I would move out of state not to anywhere in Maine. Of course I would have to ship my yacht or sell it. Actually, that isn't a bad idea. It would be nice to be able to see some mountains again - note as a person who grew up on the west coat, there are no mountains on the east coast - just hills.

@@todddunn945 you could sail your boat somewhere no need to sell or ship it. Yes ive been in Camden in the summer and you can get around the traffic for the most part. My point was more towards it still being a nice town and not just ice cream and tshirt shops. There are mountains on the east coast they just happen to much older than the ones out west and worn down. Mt Washington has what is considered by many the worst weather in the world with recorded winds over 230mph. Well if you do not enjoy where you live then certainly look into moving, if you are retired how many good years do you have left where you can enjoy the outdoors and sailing, likely not many before we all eventually wear out just like the once mighty adirondacks!!!!!

@@Rainmaker60LM I am aware of the age of the hills here since I am a retired geology prof. That said, although they may been mountains, they are hills now. Mt. Washington gets that accolade because it has a manned weather station. I assure you that the weather on top of Mt. Denali (formerly Mt. McKinley) makes Mt. Washington look like a summer park. It certainly gets a lot colder up there at 20,000+ feet in Alaska. Heck when I lived in Fairbanks it went below -65F. and -50 F was not unusual at all.

I am glad you got through it. Yes the first few weeks can be really hard.

Glad you found it informative.