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Blue Moon - day 12 blog blue moon



Guess today is my day to write the blog.

We had a beautiful start in the day, the sea calmed a bit the wind decreased. Perfect day to fly the kite! Everything gets ready in a smooth way step by step and voilĂ  we re flying directly towards St Lucia. Everybody is happy and enjoys the great conditions. One by one took a refreshing salt water shower and did some laundry. Chill chill chill.

Time for a short nap and get out of the sun for a bit. You know there will be always something unplanned. I woke up and bang! - deal with it. Nobody woke me up when the casino started, ughh! The warning light of the engine overheating was on and the crew did a great job to check the exhaust right away. No water coming out. Stopped the engine.perfect! And now the for me not so fun part - why, whats wrong? First check - water strainer, cleaned out and back in. Engine back on - still no water coming out. Engine off. Next step, check the impeller. Looking at our Yanmar engine, which one was it again? Need to find the boat manual. Lucky i have a copy on my ipad. We followed the pipes and then Wayne took the impeller out and holy molly, the impeller was flat as bold not a single piece around the centre. How could that happen? We had a full engine check by the mechanic not long time ago. Uggh. Well after a deep breath outside back down to solve the problem. We found the issue which is in general easy to solve, but first we needed to find all the little plastic pieces in the tubes not the put ourselves in more in trouble later. Wayne took all the houses apart and we found half of the pieces. Lucky they were no pieces in the heat exchangers. We dedicated to put everything back together and place a new impeller. Engine on - and she purrs like a cat! Kept an eye on it for the next hour, all good. Halleluja!

Another day flying by. Never got bored on this trip so far. Always something to do.

I am very, very happy we could fix the issue as i would not look forward to cross this Atlantic again without engine. Especially because there a few big wind holes ahead of us.


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