The New Engine

Getting the tools ready to use.

Preparing the boat.

Getting ready to make the boom a crane.

Mark and BJ set things up.

Old engine on cart.

Unhooking old engine.

a big mess.

Lifting out the old engine.

Empty rails.

New engine waiting to be lowered.

New engine waiting to be hooked up. You can see David working on the back from inside the "hell hole". It is basically the lazerette.

New hoses going on.

The engine is finally in. It was quite a process and a lot of work. We spent Monday preparing the boat. We had to take off the mainsail, the dodger and some other items so that we could use the boom as a crane. David, with me as tool wench, drained all the fluids and disconnected all the lines, hoses, wires, etc. It was scary but it took less than 2 hours to pull the old engine and put the new one in place. Mark and BJ were super. They are obviously very good at their jobs and very professional. We spent the rest of the day working on getting the engine hooked up. Daniel, also of MD Marine helped get everything going and spent quite a bit of time giving David the rundown on the differences between the engines and things to do for a proper installation. He had the same sense of humor as David so I got double doses of it! I think he had as good a time working with David as David did working with him. Great guy.

We had to buy some hoses and connectors to finish the job so that entailed a 15 mile ride to town. Thank God for the bikes and the bike path! We had all the hoses and electrical connected by the afternoon and the dynamic duo of Mark and BJ came back to add the fluids and check everything out. Unfortunately, in the whole process, our shifter cable gave up the ghost but a new part will be in tomorrow. We weren't able to take her for a test ride but we did run it and it sounds wonderful and nothing else broke or leaked. We toasted her first tenth of an hour then started taking the pedestal apart for tomorrow's project. Nothing is every easy but so far we're very pleased.