I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving : To reach the port of heaven , we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it... but we must sail, and not drift , nor lie at anchor.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
DAY 1 !?!?!
Actually , HOUR 1 ,and I thought we're going sailing today , but, on the way to Burdines to fuel up, our heatgage jumps up to 210F -Houston , we have a problem !
So instead of sailing it's back into the engine -room , pleasantly heated up , thank you very much , and we're on for a Lesson called " The Cooling System " . Thank Goddess , Bruce is right on hand again to walk us thru the Freshwater Cooling System , the heatgage , the sending unit - yep , heard of that one before and now I also know where it is and I'm in the process of learning what a royal pain it is to get it out .Cos' you'd think it's easily accesible since it's right in your face , but there isn't a tool around to take it off without ...well, we'll see ,because we're on that one right now .At least we had a new heatgage and sending unit on hand to play'em out against each other to see who's the culprit.
Needless to say morale on board is low, and we're certainly living up to our boats name 'Quixotic ' meaning trying to acomplish the impossible, since neither one of us is mechanically trained.
Off course we ended up having to take the raw-water plumbing and one fuelinjector out to get the job done ,and we ended up replacing both parts since they go together, but as the day is wearing on I'm adjusting to the reality of cruising . You just don't have a choice but do anything in your power to keep the boat running or you're going nowhere. And since we decided to sail to the Abacos and would like to keep our Iron Genny on the ready we ARE putting in the extra mile and effort to get what we want. And we're learning exponentially .....like it or not .
So instead of sailing it's back into the engine -room , pleasantly heated up , thank you very much , and we're on for a Lesson called " The Cooling System " . Thank Goddess , Bruce is right on hand again to walk us thru the Freshwater Cooling System , the heatgage , the sending unit - yep , heard of that one before and now I also know where it is and I'm in the process of learning what a royal pain it is to get it out .Cos' you'd think it's easily accesible since it's right in your face , but there isn't a tool around to take it off without ...well, we'll see ,because we're on that one right now .At least we had a new heatgage and sending unit on hand to play'em out against each other to see who's the culprit.
Needless to say morale on board is low, and we're certainly living up to our boats name 'Quixotic ' meaning trying to acomplish the impossible, since neither one of us is mechanically trained.
Off course we ended up having to take the raw-water plumbing and one fuelinjector out to get the job done ,and we ended up replacing both parts since they go together, but as the day is wearing on I'm adjusting to the reality of cruising . You just don't have a choice but do anything in your power to keep the boat running or you're going nowhere. And since we decided to sail to the Abacos and would like to keep our Iron Genny on the ready we ARE putting in the extra mile and effort to get what we want. And we're learning exponentially .....like it or not .
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