More Engine Trouble

When they had organised themselves nicely in Gran Canaria ready to concentrate on finding crew, Pete decided to try and free the engine leg up some more. It had been really stiff since the work in Spain and they were unable to raise it out of the water at all, which was less than ideal. Anyway as you can probably guess, he tinkered, and it broke again. The new pins that the engineer had drilled made everything really stiff and tight, and this put pressure on the casing and yoke which have now broken. (I think this is right anyway) I do tend to glaze over these days when it comes to engine trouble - I just wait till he gets to the how much it's going to cost bit. Anyway, he is now waiting for more parts from Silette. They can lift him out on Wednesday and he can sit in the boatyard to do the repairs, which he is going to attempt himself. He says he has seen it being dismantled and reconstructed so many times now he should be able to do it without an engineer. If he gets stuck he will call one in then. Once again Silette have been really helpful, and have couriered out the parts, which he is hoping will arrive on Tuesday. So it's a waiting game once again. On the positive side, he is getting plenty of interest in the crew space. Apparently there are youngsters everywhere trying to find spaces on boats, and there is a notice board full of adverts. He is gutted to have missed the twin blonde scandanavian girls who were looking for berths, surprisingly enough they were snapped up pretty quickly(!) Meanwhile it is quite an experience down there with the place being totally overwhelmed with the ARC boats and their preparations.