It's Easter weekend and the river looks pretty good. No a lot higher than normal so if it doesn't rain a lot in April, we're good to get out of here on schedule.
It's somewhat disturbing to look back and count how many weekends this project to replace the cylinder heads on our starboard engine have actually taken. We started in early December and now it's April 5 and we can finally say that the project-from-hell is actually complete. Well, OK, maybe we do have to put on one last hose, but you get the idea.
While we're feeling sorry for ourselves, it's worth noting that we took six weeks off during that very cold weather in February.
On that subject, we talked to another boater today and we related how we had to get help lifting the new manifolds up onto the boat. He offered that, "Your brain is a teenager and your body is... well." Good comment, although our minds are a little better than " teenager," at least most of the time. As for the remaining body parts, he had a point.
Hopefully, this is then last time you'll see Bill down between the engines. But, notice, all the tools and wrenches are gone? Good sign!
On Sunday, we hauled down our monster Shop Vac, not the one shown in the video, but a true master sucker. Fitting that thing down between the engines wasn't easy but once there, we pushed the hose down into all of those little places where the sun never shines under the engines. It is so satisfying to hear the debris from from years past getting sucked up. We pulled out lots of old gunk from sloppy oil changes in the past (not from us, of course). The super sucker just inhaled it.
The best part was opening the vac to see what treasurers it held. Lots of little pieces of crap and about a half dozen assorted nuts, washers and two 3-inch bolts. We have to assume they had been there for years.
Anyhow, our bilge spaces are clean. Our problem engine is re-assembled and we are free to begin our next project: sealing the joint between the deck and the hull.
We're sure you can tell that we're excited about that.
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