However, thanks to our very friendly and generous boat neighbors we managed to get a few things done today. We've been having problems with our outboard motor lately and one day, while joy riding in the bay, it stopped working and wouldn't start. This was after we replaced the impeller, so we were slightly miffed. We purchased a smaller motor that we wanted anyway, but we still needed to get this one working in order to sell it. With a bit of spark plug cleaning, testing and putting it back together, we managed to get it running again. Mission accomplished!
Afterward, our same friendly neighbor told us about his heating exchange sacrificial anode that had been disintegrating rather rapidly due to the high amount of electricity in the marina. (Sacrificial anodes are easily corroded materials deliberately installed to be sacrificed to corrosion, leaving the rest of the system corrosion free. Without these, other types of metals on a boat, like your propellor for instance, would be subject to corrosion.) We had already changed two of our zinc anodes on the outside of the boat, but our novice engine brains had no idea about the one on the engine.
The nut and anode on the top of the picture is what it's supposed to look like and the nut below it was ours. As you can see, this sacrificial anode had been sacrificed already. Who knows how long it had been that way. Thankfully, Susana, the Engine Room Contortionist, was able to change it like an old pro.
I don't think she appreciated that picture. Anyway, the winds have been either non-existent or too strong for us to comfortably take Jade out for her 'captains only' maiden voyage. Hopefully soon though.
We wish you all much love, good health and many new adventures in this new year. Cheers!
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