An afternoon as apprentice to a 'big ship' engineer leading the repair of my 25-year-old Volvo Penta 20 horsepower diesel.
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An afternoon as apprentice to a 'big ship' engineer leading the repair of my 25-year-old Volvo Penta 20 horsepower diesel.
We've replaced fuel and oil filters, seals, and a couple of hoses to deal with what we're calling the 'suck air' issue but there's a hint of an additional issues related to the alternator and, separately, the injectors.
Fuck.
[head in hands, sobbing]
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@ccohanlon I feel this so damn hard. I've been patching our old engine for the past couple of years, every year. There is *always* something happening with it, and honestly, it makes me crazy anxious...
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@rek There's a part of me that wants to strip the engine out (it occupies a voluminous space that I could use for stores, and requires a number of holes through the hull). I've sailed long distances without an engine in two of my earliest boats and after the first season, no longer felt it was inconvenient or dangerous, although patience and equanimity were essential. It certainly made me become more skilled as a sailor (and be more generous in my acquisition of provisions!).
My other pet peeve is the cockpit. I'm tempted to deck it over to the level of the after deck, with just a small footwell aft of the companionway bridge-deck. It would be more comfortable on long passages, It would also add more storage.
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@ccohanlon There's a part of me that wants to do that too, but Dev & I don't have your experience sailing that way and very much fear the idea (although we did manage when we had a total break down 2 summers ago, but it was a bit stressful).
And I totally agree with you on the cockpit thing, we'd like something smaller, along the lines of Nick Skeates's Wylo II. Although, as it stands now Pino is WAY too heavy and had we more storage we couldnt handle more stores >_> (if we didnt have that heavy engine tho...)
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@rek Nick Skeates' Wylo is the epitome, no? Also, Leo of the PNW's Sampson Boat Company, who, before he purchased Tally Ho, decked over the cockpit of his timber Folkboat for a transatlantic passage from the UK to the Caribbean. I am also a huge fan of Blondie Hasler's enclosed folkboat, Jester (with it's single mast junk-rig).
How much does Pino weigh? Wrack's unladen displacement is around 5,300 kilos, with a cruising displacement that is easily a 1,000 kilo more! Bloody heavy given she has a low rig and modest sail area.
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@rek No engine...and no sea cocks for the exhaust and cooling systems, no alternator, no shaft, no propeller nor bearing, no fuel tank, no gear box, no bulky spares...
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@rek Have you seen this? SO lovely:
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@ccohanlon Yessss! Ive seen this. Its one of Dev and mine's favorite sailboat videos :)...
Pino's factory weight is 4,400 kg but now weighs about 7,500 kg when full of food/fuel/water/all of our stuff. The waterline is pretty low when fully-laden.
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@rek Woah...but not suprising.
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@ccohanlon Ya. Aside from books, we don't have a lot of "fun stuff", the tools, spares, and materials we have to keep Pino shipshape account for much of the weight :/...
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@rek People say to me, "Oh, I can't read books on a screen." But if I didn't habituate myself to reading long texts on my laptop, I 'd not read at all. Dampness kills paper aboard Wrack and dry space is at a premium. But I have a huge library on my laptop, including pilotage books, 'how-to- manuals, as well as novels, non-fiction, and the like. On Wrack, port side lockers are food, pots and pans, crockery and clothes, while starboard side lockers are tools, spares, iron mongery, 'bosun' supplies like sail repair kits, torches, harnesses et al.
