Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Day 28 in the work yard…

Wayne worked on the impeller today and I went into town to stay out of his way. I got the last items on my list that I was looking for. One last provisioning trip for fresh stuff before we leave and I’m good… Did I say that Wayne spent the day working on the impeller? They don’t make it easy to get to on our engine and he had a dickens of a time doing it but hopefully it’s all good now. Our engine is the Yanmar 4JHE. To get at the impeller you basically have to get at it from behind and there is very little maneuvering room in our engine compartment. Someone had said there was a trick for getting these things off but Wayne couldn’t figure it out. That’s why he wanted the crew here to do it so he could see what it was that they did. But what cha gonna do? After a couple of weeks, and nobody showing up, we needed to get it done. It took Wayne a little over 8 hours but it looks like it’s done. Wayne says that he wasn’t sure about an O ring that was there. He said he couldn’t figure out where it went or how to keep it in place in putting it back together. But he feels pretty good about it all. I think. His arms are covered in grease and I’m sure he was doing a lot of cussing trying to get it apart, then back together.
Tomorrow (???) we get put in the water. We still need to get the dinghy up on the davits and clear up our space in the work yard. Then the boatlift can get us into the slings, across the work yard to the marina and into the water. Then, the rest of our work can be done in the water. Yay!