Back to work. Well, actually, off to Germany for work...and a little skiing in Austria. It's tough. No sailing this weekend though, as now I'm back I have to rip into all the jobs that Kamalii created (boats do that) over the Xmas break. First up, fixing the starboard genset.
I rebuilt the raw water pump yesterday, so now both gensets have fully refurbed pumps. But the real issue on the starboard gennie is the wet exhaust elbow, where the sea water is injected into the exhaust. Hot exhaust gases + salt water = plenty of corrosion. These things are basically wear parts, they always rot out eventually. And in this case it came apart spectacularly, which is surprising given that I visually inspected it a few months ago and there was nothing apparently dodgy about it.
Anyway, this morning I took everything apart (28 degrees, 1001% humidity, it sucked) but being a boat it could not possibly go smoothly, and the last bolt holding the elbow sheared off. Now I have a stub of a bolt sticking out that is fused to the exhaust header. Off to work to get the blowtorch and Ezi-Outs...
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| Raw water pump being dissasembled. An easy job - very seldom that happens on a boat. |
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| Bit of a mess. |
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| Rather knackered... |
We also today pulled out all of the anchor chain on to the dock and then rolled out all the twists in it (a LOT of twists) and then loaded it back in. Only took a couple of hours. 130m of 1/2" chain in 29 degrees...no need for the gym today. Rum earned.
Oh, and in an exciting development Emma has ventured into the aft bilge - to recover something she managed to lose down there. This is excellent news, now I know I have someone else to send down there. :-)
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| New bilge troll |
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