Two Hose Clamps Please
24 October 2007 | Granada
Randy
Our third day on the hard has gone by. I have spent 10 hours a day here, mostly trying to wrangle management into deploying resources to get our boat painted. When they informed us that they could haul us I asked if we could be back in the water Wednesday (that would be today). The response was maybe. The boat is not even prepped for painting much less painted. I have also learned that tomorrow is Thanksgiving in Grenada so no one will be at work tomorrow. It's looking like we'll be here until next week.
In the mean time I have hired the mechanical shop to help me with engine maintenance. I'm going to do 250 hours on both Yanmars and annuals on the sail drives while, hopefully, the shop does the 1,000 hour on the Westerbeke genset. The young man doing the work is Neron. I have a good feeling about him, the kind of feeling you get when you talk to someone who has a good attitude, can communicate clearly and seems to have the knowledge and experience to do a good job. All of these attributes do not come together in one boat contractor very often.
Neron found one of the two hose clamps rusted through on the exhaust hose while pulling the heat exchanger for cleaning. Can you imagine an engine exhaust hose coming off inside the boat while in operation? Just think about that one for a second and then decide if every hose on every boat should be double clamped or not.