We were motoring along one morning when I checked the bilge and discovered it was full of diesel fuel. We immediately returned to our mooring. There I used my oil change hand pump to pump out the fuel tank. Of course it had close to 40 gallons in it. Most of this was donated(?) to Knights Marine. I dumped the clean fuel into their yard truck. The last 5-7 gallons was pretty black so that was dumped into the marina's waste oil barrel. I then bought a 6 gallon outboard motor tank and hooked up the fuel line and the fuel return line to it. We ended up putting it under the ell section of the settee which meant the lines managed to fit easily. I got it all hooked up and started up the motor and it all ran fine. we did buy a diesel jerry can which we will keep on deck to refuel. I found using this method that the motor uses about a gallon of fuel an hour when running at 1700 rpms.
I had made a new main sail cover which we installed.
Fall 2019
I removed the original sump pump from the motor compartment along with most of the wiring and hoses.
I installed a new foot pump in the galley. There will be a dedicated faucet for the foot pump. It will fed by the hose for the manual pump that was there. So now to get pressure water you would have to close the manual valve. I installed the old manual pump into the head completely removing any pressure water from there. The head faucet was quite decrepit.
I removed the head intake thru hull and filled the hole with fiberglass.
In preparation for installing a tiller in the spring I removed the steering wheel and pedestal. i was amazed that all the nuts came off without too much trouble.
Winter 2019
This off season I rebuilt the salon box that we had stored food in. It will now hold all of our water jugs for drinking. Pots and pans will be in the hold that had the turntable.
I built a tiller from white oak and ash. The oak came from Anne Coggers property. It was ripped into 1/4" strips and then laminated around a curved form. Then I cut and carved it to shape.
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