Larry … well he’s never changed the fuel filter in this boat
and thought it time he does so. He went
into pretzel mode as he crawled around, in and out of the engine compartment,
trying to find the fuel shut-off valve.
This seemed to take forever!
Poor guy! He found it buried in
the cockpit in a bin where the propane bottles are. He was successful at changing the fuel filter but it was a messy
job. He ensures me next time will be
much easier!
After the fuel filter, he decided to change the oil in the
engine. He’s done this before so it
wasn’t a matter of “how” but just another dirty job that someone has to do …
that is, someone other than me!
He put the last of the diesel we had on deck into the tank
thru that Baha Filter thingy.
We called Pabo on theVHF radio. Pabo is the guy for anything you need. He stops by our boat most mornings to see if we need
anything. We asked him to fill our 3
diesel cans. He brought out two boats
(one that he’s driving and one with his diesel tank in it) and filled our two
tanks. He also took away our old engine
oil and all the messy trash from the fuel filter/oil change. Total cost was $100. He said he put 17 gallons of diesel in the
cans but back home, Larry has never been able to fit more than 16.5 gallons
even when he pushed it. Pabo has a
meter on the diesel tank, much like a gas pump has but for 1/2 gallon
difference, we didn’t question him.
Once Pabo left, Larry put the diesel into our tank (again,
using the Baha filter). We were
surprised at the quality of the diesel.
There was no detectible water in the filter at all.
For the remainder of the day, we just vegged, looked at
weather charts and discussed if we were ever going to be able to escape this
place!
I started getting stomach cramps and sorry for TMI but bad
diarrhea.
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