Friday 11th May
Boatannie
Fri 11 May 2012 12:36
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Day 1 of our passage started yesterday or rather
didn't start yesterday. Our first objective was the fuel pontoon at which
another boat was taking a languid approach to replenishment. So in order to
transmit a message in the the style of English gentlemen we thought we
would caste off and mill around looking patient. Three circuites of the pool
later, two gentle collisions with pontoons and 8 engine failures in as many
minutes later we wre tied up on a convenient hammer head explaining our erratic
behaviour to the Jolly Harbour jolly harbour master. An engineer was duly
summond and this friendly and meticulous chap spent the next two hours on board
trying to find the fault by starting with dismantling the filters and then
exavating deeper into the lump until eventually deciding that either one of the
fuel pipes has degraded to the pont that it is contaminating the fuel or the
lift pump will possibly require replacement. He's taken the suspect pipe away
for pressure testing and we await his return this morning. It is currently
pouring with rain, it's rather too hot for a chap from my home latitudes and the
mossies are getting visibly fat from feasting on my body which now resembles
someting from a photo it once was my misfortune to see in a carelessly discarded
copy of the Lancet.
Peter
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