Finally after 7 long months, Sarah Claire has a working engine. The newly rebuilt Perkins 4-108 with 1 hour on the meter sits nicely in the engine room waiting for good weather to motor the short stretch back to her slip.
Spent part of the day installing the primary bilge pump, with 2 more to go. Once back in the slip, the rewire starts. New 50 amp 125/250 shore power, new breakers, new fuses, wire.. it is a big pile of stuff.
But first, prior to the move, the new aluminum fuel tank needs to be put back in the bilge, and the stringers tied in. Next week hopefully, (but will probably be next month.) the water tanks will go back in, and new plumbing will hook it all up with the Isotemp water heater.. man is that sucker huge... Will be replacing shower drain hose as well. Speaking of hose, was putting on new hose for the aft cockpit lockers when the plastic thru hull snapped off.. ouch. Not good. I didn't have time to mess with it so I had the yard install a new one... cost only 1 arm.
Weather here is rain like we haven't seen in a while, high winds and the bay is very choppy. Maritime weather.
Pictures to follow.
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