Lows and highs

The Repowering Project: Days 20&21 (Monday/Tuesday)

Monday not a good day, so no blog. With the engine pretty much in place, we'd spent time over the weekend with the catalogs trying to work out what size and shape of water trap would fit. Final check with Keith when he came to shift the engine out again, and we were ready to order on Monday at about lunchtime. When we rang, the helpful people at Vetus queried our choice of hose size - didn't we need 90mm rather than 75mm they asked? The engineer decided to check with Yanmar, who said they actually recommended 100mm! By then we'd ordered a 75mm hull fitting, and had the 75mm hose cut. Rapid reverse - we ordered a 100mm hull fitting, hose and water trap with 100mm inlet/outlet. Rather subdued, we spent the evening doing a final check fit and trim of the soundproofing panels. At least the weather was warm and sunny, and the mate finally got the wind generator painted, primed all the newly cut wood in the lazarette and bogged up the hole left by the removal of the old engine cut-off cable.

To our surprise and relief, the water trap and hull fitting arrived by air freight first thing Tuesday. We got started on the soundproofing early, taking breaks regularly so that we didn't get too high on contact adhesive. By tea time we had all the panels glued and screwed in place, and some of the various pipes and cables back in place on the walls. In one of the breaks from gluing, the engineer, ,using a saw kindly lent by Keith cut out part of the web which used to hold the Scatra coupling to make more room for the new water trap. Pictures of water trap and soundproofing are in the web album.