Life is good.

We have Air conditioning and fresh homemade waffles for breakfast.



Our boat is packed with delicious foods from all over the orient.

We had a huge chubasco lastnight that put gallons of lovely fresh water into our newly cleaned dinghy and cooled the whole marina off enough that we had to huddle up together under the blankets lastnight due to the air conditioning making its way cold.



This morning Omar the mechanic showed up at 9AM. I had expected him to come in the afternoon. What a pleasant surprise it was to see him so early.

He mimed shooting me with a pistol when I came up and took me to his pickup to show me our freshly removed cylinder head back form the machine shop.

He was jovial and pleasant as he showed us the reason we couldnt find a problem in the head gasket to explain the water intrusion. It turns out the water had entered through a crack in the head right at the valve seat. The other half of said valve seat was destroyed by years of corrosion.



turns our we need a new cylinder head.



We have shopped around and found a nice 3 cylinder 35 horsepower motor for $5k but the many hassles involved in repowering (new propeller, etc.) are not a very good option.

Another day in paradise! Waffles, cylinder heads and chubascos!