Hi Everyone,
Well yesterday started as a quiet, usual day out here and I spent a few hours mesmerized by the beautiful wave formations. The swell was quite large, around 4m. and the waves would rise up behind us and look as if they would swamp us. the back of the boat would lift up, the wave would go under us and we would surf down the other side. I was wishing that each of you could be teleported here for a half hour or so just to have a ride (especially Gwen and Harry)!
Just as we started having dinner yesterday evening, the fishing line began to run. We stopped the boat as we had something really big on the line. Well, it turned out to be a 1.2m. Mahi Mahi and when we brought it inside, it took up the whole of the kitchen bench. It is going to make five BIG meals for each of the three of us. We weren’t finished packing the fish away when suddenly the generator stopped running. It was overheating and after checking all the water intake lines, we decided that the impeller had come to the end of it’s life. It was late so we decided to leave that job to the morning.
This morning, 6.10am. John was up on watch and Dimitri and I were asleep in our back cabin. All of a sudden we were both catapulted out of bed and ended up on the floor on the opposite side of the cabin. Even the mattress came with us! So, who needs an alarm clock? Tonight I will sleep in a fore-and-aft berth! Since we were awake, I got up, only to find that one of the boys had left one of the saloon hatches slightly open and all our books on one side of the cabin were wet. I spent an hour drying them off as best I could and have now given up to write to you.
The boys have pulled the impeller out of the generator and it is indeed the culprit. It is in about 20 little pieces. The trick now is to get the new one in. They are about to do it so tomorrow I will let you know the outcome. John was a great help, retrieving many tiny impeller pieces from the heat exchanger small tubes, and doing all the work.He actually enjoyed it!
We have a pretty wild sea out there today with the wind gusting to 30 kn. It is forecast to remain like this for the next few days so the seas should build....
Love and hugs
Arti and Dimitri
p.s Generator is working again!!
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