Engine change imminent!

The yard, engineers and the antifouling are all on track for a liftout on 10th December so maybe the boat will hopefully be back in the water by Christmas or shortly afterwards.  I’ll be going down tomorrow (9th Dec 24) to check over a few things and see the boat coming out – weather permitting.  Whhile I’m down there I can check if my fibreglass ‘bucket’ I’ve made to hold a spare gas cylinder in the anchor locker will actually fit past the windlass.  I made the bucket because getting gas around the Highlands is a bit hit and miss, but I guess we might go the way a lot of yachts are going at the moment and put in a decent sized inverter and use an electric kettle and an induction hob for some of the cooking.  The new engine will have a bigger alternator output – around 100 Amps – so we could charge a reasonably big Lithium Iron battery pack – say 300 AHrs that would give us enough power as long as we ran the engine for a few hours every other day.  For the most part we havent been going into marinas in the Hebrides and not all have shore power anyway so we really have to be self sufficient in energy.  The boat electric devices and battteries available now are so very different from those available when Dulcinea was built,  and she is currntly more 2000 than 2024 in her equipment!  While I’m down at the boat I’ll need to sort out temporary storage for the old engine as I have managed to sell it and the vast trove of spares to be rebuilt.  I’m sure it will be fine to rebuild – had it not been for the expense and difficulty of getting it out and putting it back in, the time taken and the difficulty of transporting and moving it around, I would have taken that route myself, as I’m sure there is nothing wrong with the engine that can’t be sorted once its out and stripped down.

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