position S12 27.100 E130 49.200
Ocean Rival Journey Log
Adam Power Diana Power
Sun 8 Sep 2019 11:46
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Nafea Soliman is
a very nice egyptian who is clearly much in demand having to
work all day sunday. He gave me early encouragement by saying
his last job was similar one of water escape and that turned out
to be the calorifier leaking- something I hadn't even
considered. However isolating the calorifier didn't stop the
problem so he will be back in the
morning with his pressure testing gear - the head gasket seems
to be the next likely cause but a blockage somewhere in the
circuit also seems likely.
He was keen to
show me pictures of all the dying engines that he has rescued
including a Perkins 4108 that he re-built recently so he is
certainly the right man for the job and I am happy to defer to
him in all matters mechanical. His older son is also a trained
marine and auto engineer and is now training to teach kids- his
younger 10 year old is helping him in the workshop so will most
likely also follow in his dads footsteps.
The restaurant
overlooking the marina sells fish and chips and is called Frying
Nemo. I don't think you could get away with that in england as
kids of a certain age would burst into tears, but Ausies skins
are seemingly as thick as crocodiles from birth and the concept
of pc is still refreshingly alien. They do serve a very good
Jewfish, chips and slaw.
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