s/v Discovery

Out of the Port of L.A.  Out of California.  Out of the country!  Hoo Ray. My father joined us for our maiden voyage to Ensenada, and things were incredibly frantic the first two weeks of September as it was a mad scramble to sell the car, get the engine in, commissioned, as well as re-install all the other systems and re-commission them(depth sounder, plotter, everything on the binnacle). a true sailor Things were so tight we rushed to get Discovery out of the slip for the first time under her own power only 1 day before we were scheduled to shove off for good.  Well of course nothing went smoothly.  We test ran the engine the day before our little test cruise and naively thought it was all ok.  A loose fuel line fitting, and a cracked hard fuel line on the return from the injectors caused a vapor lock which stalled the engine as we were backing out of the slip.  After almost crashing backwards into our neighbor, we spent the next few hours fending off, side tying a