Busily beavering away on the brightwork at the moment. I am hoping to have the whole upper port side done by the end of this week (which would be good since we are heading away on Kamalii for Easter). I will hold off posting pics until then.
Over the last fortnight we have given the main engine fuel system a full go-over, which it desperately needed. Also set the valve lash, and now just need to set the injectors, but already she is running so much smoother.
On Sunday we emptied out the forward fuel tank, the one that had fuel in it when we bought the boat and which probably dated from the late 1990's... Yep, it was mostly water and sludge, with trace amounts of diesel. We've purged it all out, run large amounts of meths through the tank, and have now put some clean diesel back in the tank along with a heap of biocide, which we will let slosh around over Easter before we drain it again.
Starting in on converting the house power outlets from 115V to 230V. Conceptually straight-forward, but once I've finished the conversion we will need to install an isolating transformer before we can hook up to shore power, and they are not cheap. Just keep telling myself, one thing at a a time...
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