What did you do to your sailing boat today ?

No we didn't end up going as I thought it would be a bit rushed

It didn't start till 10am and we had a BBQ at the yacht club here starting at 12pm and it is about a 45 min drive across to Kettering and my wife was planning to do a bit cooking for the BBQ

I don't really need anything at the moment other than some wet weather gear before the Pipe Opener http://dssinc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/PO-Notice-of-Race-and-Entry-2014.pdf in mid September but I still have a bit of time to look around and I might end up buying a new set now I have sold the Spacesailer and have a bit of cash available

Regards Don

Propted up

I rowed out to her and said "Hello Darlin', your sugar daddy is back!!" Making love to a mistress half your age is fantastic.

Her metal heart has not been running the smoothest so I cranked it up, got it warm and cracked the injector line on the aft pot first, nipped it back up and did the same to the fwd pot and nipped it back up.

This proved to me that the fwd pot is running stronger than the aft because it nearly died when I cracked the fwd pot.

This of course means that both injectors need to be pulled and taken to the Doctor of diesel injection. It is probable that the injection pump needs to be taken there as well.

The engine is a Yanmar 2QM 15 or 20 and after having got us all the way from Lake Macquarie to Bundaberg trouble free except for a hole blown in the after market exhaust elbow, I think it deserves a big birthday.

Injectors are pulled, water pump with leaking shaft seal is removed, wet elbow with leaking gasket is removed, air silencer/filter box is removed and alternator is removed, all of which will get a workshop work over.

This means Second Wind is sitting at anchor and disabled engine wise. That puts me on high alert to getting the jobs done.

Further jobs to be done are replacement of engine anodes after a flush of the water jackets, oil and filter change, fuel filter change, valve clearance adjustment, gearbox oil change and why not a shaft alignment.

Cisco has his time cut out keeping his mistress in the style that he demands.

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pulled my props off the roof


once its trimmed it will look really nice

Looks Gappy the photo , but its ok in the boat donk . I saw some wood trim in Masters and also a place in East Bentleigh Ill check out

The carpet looks ok in the photo but Ive previously scrubbed it for mold and in the flesh it needed removal. Your cant see the stain in the photo but there there
I removed the acrylic out of my port light and have had them cut new material poly some thing its a tougher material and also more UV resistance . Ill keep on with the cabin sides this weekend . I am hoping to trim and sand the cedar strips to the aluminum edge of the window frame. This is going to be a pain to do and ill stuff a few up along the way I guess and Ill make use of any mistakes I make


I have around 300 cm to finish at the hatch sides yet with the paneling this wont take long and the props wont be in the way like the others were. Ill make a template of the dip at the front and cut some paneling to go across the dip and trim with timber as well.
This paneling comes with a satin finish on one side and a high gloss on the other.l I chose the high gloss side as I thought it might bring in more light as the timber cabin sides will make the interior darker. Time will tell I guess
I wont touch under the mast area yet as ill think about it and also get a ship wrights opinion of the depression there its only small but to me it would nag the #hit out of me when Ill in a blow some where down the track

Looking good HG02. Teak or meranti battens over the edges and it is done.

I thought my Yanmar 2QM 15 was running rough from the day I bought the yacht. Probably a miracle it got us up to Qld without breaking down.

The diesel doctor was able to recondition one of the injectors but the other needs a new nozzle which confirms my diagnosis of one pot firing weaker than the other.

Then there is the issue of tappet/valve clearances that I checked and adjusted yesterday. One was quite loose and the others quite tight almost to the point of the valves not sealing.

Hopefully none of them are burnt and I do not have to take the cylinder head off and recondition it. That will probably happen in the next 12 months but not right now if I can avoid it.

The engine was becoming increasingly difficult to start. Hopefully this is due only to the gunk I found in the primary filter. I was suspecting the fuel lift pump of being faulty but since opening up the fuel lines I have proved it to be operational.

Fuel lift pumps do not have a large volume capacity as they only need to supply marginally more fuel than the engine is using with the excess fuel supply going back to the secondary filter mounted on the engine via the spill return line. For this reason they are very inefficient for bleeding the system. One can be pumping on the external lever for half an hour or more to get the system bled.

For that reason I will be fitting a diaphragm or bulb type pump between the fuel tank and the primary filter for the purpose of bleeding the system. This will bleed the lines and filters up to the fuel injection pump. That pump and the fuel injection lines have to bled by cranking the engine.

The last owner or the person that serviced it last went mad with a can of silver frost spray paint on the engine. Half of it is not sticking and the engine looks like it has a bad case of eczema. The components I have taken off such as the rocker cover, alternator will be spray painted in the workshop and the rest of the engine will be brush painted after cleaning.

Once the job is all done I will post photos and a short video of the engine running. These engine caame out in the mid to late 70s. My boat was built in 1982 so the engine is at least 32 years old. They were very solidly built so properly serviced I expect to get at least another ten years out of it.

Cheers Cisco.

I used to work for a Yanmar Excavator dealer they are a really good motor. some owned by people that really abuse them . and they just keep going

Been buying a heap of stuff lately...such as:
-Delorme inreach SE
-GPS receiver with bluetooth (ipad compatible)
-Cheapish chinese waterproof ipad case.
-4 man liferaft
-para flare

That should wrap up spending for a while.