Cliff was able to contact a local generator specialist who, amazingly, agreed to come look at our generator on a Sunday. His name is Rich and his company is Atlantic Generators….just in case any of you find yourself in need of a generator fix. Turns out that our impeller disintegrated somewhere along the line. The forensic part of the job was figuring out where all the pieces went. Using instruments that looked like they came from a dentist’s office, Rich was able to extract 10 3/4 of the “missing” 12 pieces and, most importantly, fix the generator.
Since we were stuck in Hampton for another day we decided to make the most of it. We took the marina tender across the river and commenced on a very l-o-o-o-n-g walk to find the Emancipation Oak on the Hampton University campus. We walked a bit more than 4 miles in all and did find the oak which was not nearly as impressive as I’d hoped. And not nearly impressive enough to convince Cliff that the walk was worth it:-)
We were treated to a spectacular thunder and lightning display and even got a double rainbow. Surely that portends good things for the remainder of our trip!
We are off to the Tides tomorrow weather permitting.