Mackay Repairs 09/08/07

I feel no pain, dear mother now, but oh what a terrible thirst.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get worse……….nasty noise in compressor, fire in the engine room, vast expense, many trips into town, 1001 bruises and cuts…..finally ripped out the last of the old gear and re plumbed the raw water. Tested the joint by opening the seacock. Ok. Then started the engine. A slight leak. Pressed stop button for engine and nothing happened. Couldn’t stop the bloody thing. Found decompression lever. Became terminally depressed.
Meanwhile the fridge was working so much better than we had anticipated. This should have been a positive but unfortunately it had frozen everything within a metre of the plate. So heaps of stuff had to be chucked.
Then back to the problem of the unstoppable engine.
Finally traced to the fact that the engine ground was through the old compressor which had been removed. Simple to sort once we’d found it.
So then back to tidying up the new installation and then tidying up the inside of the boat. Cyclone Tracy required less work per square metre.
So I’m not game to put to sea yet. I just sit with my head in my hands and rock gently back and forth.
I find it comforts me.
Also alcohol.