Engine fun now

We went down on Sunday to find her beautifully afloat and the mast in the more familiar position. No more crouching under the horizontal mast to get down the companionway. However, the rigging has not been tensioned properly and the boom hadn't been fitted either. At least we fixed the boom and Audrey started work on connecting all the masthead wires.

I had a go at starting the engine to no avail. After operating the pump a bit the fuel in the primary filter took on this awful brown sludge colour so we seem to have been afflicted by the dreaded diesel bug.

Next weekend will now be dedicated to getting our engine going again. The plan is to pump out the dirty diesel, change all the fuel filters, see if we can filter out the sludge and then refuel with clean fuel and hope for the best.

I fitted the AIS box to the chart table bulkhead and we will look at connecting it up properly soon. I will have to get the bosuns chair off Matthew and pay a visit up the mast. The idea of putting the arial at the spreaders is not now appealing. The GPS receiver can go on the pushpit as previously planned anyway.

Always something to worry about anyway.