Posting again

I know I haven't posted in a while, but for the last three weeks I have been trying to get my boat fixed. That was accomplished yesterday. I had all the motor mounts changed and it needed it. I had two motor mounts on the port side that had screws missing. On the starboard side I had two motor mounts that were broken. So that side only had two motor mounts holding the engine. We took it for a test run today and the engines stayed so straight. It was amazing. I have never seen these engines run like that. There was always a wobble to them. I had mechanics tell me that is the way a two cylinder westerbeke engine ran, so I didn't think they were running incorrectly. But now I know that they were never correct.

Mel, the mechanic down here in Antigua, also did a lot of other work on things that I had patched over the last year. In most cases he came up with a better way to fix them than I thought of.
He fixed the port side cutlas bearing. It was wobbly and after we got the boat out of the water we cleaned up the shaft and when we put it back together it was solid. He changed two injectors on the starboard side engine now that is running a lot better. He fixed my alternator belt on the starboard side where the bracket had worn away. He also rebuilt my Starboard engine transmission.
I would highly recommend Mel as a mechanic.

So other than getting my port side fuel pump hooked up I think we are in good shape. I will do that today and take it for another test run tomorrow. If we run good we will head south sometime after Monday.


Lexie getting off the boat on the hard

Max getting off the boat

A place we went past on our test run.