Antigua - Green Island Day 2
Rainmaker
Donald Macdonald
Tue 20 Apr 2021 20:11
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As such a pleasant anchorage and good snorkelling on the
reef stayed a 2nd day. Today saw more different fish and big groups of them than
any other on this trip. Evan swam with 2 turtles for a time and a manta ray went
by too. It all happens when you don't take the camera with you. Never
mind.
This morning did a couple of jobs. The hatch weather
hood gave the clear plastic a good clean so now can see out of it and also all
the damage when folded down then step on it putting main away, better not do
that any more. The other job more important replace the fuel filters on the
engine to see if that was cause of stoppage yesterday. With the state of the
coarse filter I would say it is a part of it as it was all gunked up and
when the fuel that was in the filter and bowl poured into jar it separated
quickly into dirty looking fuel/water and fuel on top. The fine filter had
sediment in it but not too bad also replaced. Whilst working on the engine
tightened belts up for the alternator and sea water cooling pump. Had
a slight mishap and spilled some of the diesel fuel knocking over the jar so had
to clean that up to. Will only know how well when it get wet do we have an ice
rink or not? Engine ran for 10 minutes at high revs to ensure all air bleed out
the fuel system. No problems.
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