Starter Motors and other things
Blue Sky's Voyage
George & Michael
Wed 12 Jul 2006 07:33
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Hello Friends
We have an extra blog today.
We're now moored up in L'Ile Rousse in North
west Corsica, a very atractive town with the dramatic backdrop of the Corsican
mountains - in many respects like north west Scotland but on a grand scale and
rather warmer.
L'Ile Rousse
 We had a little incident ... started the
engine to weigh anchor & move round the coast and smelt burning. It turned
out the starter motor had failed to disengage for as yet unknown reasons and the
engine had spun it to destruction, shorting the engine start battery until the
terminals melted.
Yanmar and our insurers are now
investigating and repair, but I guess we'll be staying in L'Ile Rousse for a
week or so. Anyway, no one hurt and it's a
very attractive town, the air temperature is in the high 30s and the water
temperature in the high 20s, so it's not too hard for us. There is a railway
which we may take for a ride to see a little more of the island but I think it's
just too hot to do much walking in the mountains.
Best wishes
George & Michael
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