On Thursday, we started up the engine so that we could practice deploying and retrieving our anchor, using our windlass. After having the engine on for a few minutes, it cut off. Not good. Tom immediately knew what the problem was; we had an air bubble in the fuel line. Just a week ago, we had some routine maintenance done on the engine. The mechanic had bled all the fuel lines and the engine was running great. We haven't started the engine since then and the first time we did, Thursday, we had an air bubble.

The mechanic was sent to Tanga immediately as the project manager knew we were wanting to leave on Friday. Tom and the mechanic bled all the lines again, getting rid of the air bubbles. Unfortunately, they also discovered, we had a leak in the injection fuel pump; specifically in injectors one and two. At this point, the not so experienced in perkin engines mechanic left Tanga. Shortly, the project manager arrived and told us, this was beyond their experience and gave us the name of a perkins dealer, which Tom already had on hand.

We immediately drove over to the perkins dealer, found the mechanic, and was told that we probably needed to change out the washers to the injectors. He was very helpful and gave us enough washers for the entire fuel pump, all for free. A few hours later, Tom had all the washers replaced in both injectors. With the purr of the engine, both at idle and at 2500 rpms, we had no leaks. Friday morning came, and we started the engine again, no new air bubbles and no leaks from the fuel pump. Excellent.

Next, we dropped off our loaner truck, at the car dealership. We are now without any means of transportation except for Tanga. It's a strange feeling to not have a vehicle. Anything we want or need is going to been a walk somewhere. Also, we laughed because we only have one keyring left and none of those keys belong to us; they are spare keys to both our parents house!

We were planning on leaving on Friday morning. The air bubbles and leaky fuel injectors kept us from that. Also on Friday, a low front came in and it has been here all weekend long, delivering high winds and big swells offshore.

So, here we sit, on a lazy Sunday afternoon. We are enjoying ourselves by watching some NFL games, browsing the internet, and playing PS3 games. Laundry is done, dishes are done, we are stocked up on food. We are ready to go. Our emotions have been everywhere. At some moments of the day, we feel excited that we almost gone, then other times, we feel frustrated that we are still here. We look at several different weather websites all day long; anticipating our next weather window. Our new sail day is tomorrow. Monday is looking good for us to sail south to Santa Cruz.