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The beast is in!

14 July 2009 | Norton's Marina - where else?
This is really a "good news, good news, bad news" post! First the good news: as you can see from the photo the engine is finally in it's proper place in the engine compartment. Tom has worked like a mad man over the last two weeks, grinding, cutting and reglassing to get the stringers low enough for the engine to align with the prop shaft. So the tough part is done and the engine aligns perfectly. Hopefully, things will now move forward with the final mounting and hook up.

Having finally got the engine out of the companionway, we spent the weekend removing and then rebedding two of the starboard side chain plates that we thought were still leaking after rebedding them a few weeks ago. The good news here is that the plates don't leak, which we know after a torrential downpour on Saturday night. The bad news is that it probably wasn't the plates leaking after all as there was still a puddle of water on one of the cabinets. We now suspect a leak from the toerail which is going to be 10 times harder to fix than the chain plates - ARRRRRGH! At this point moral is low on the good ship Osprey. Tom has been working 10 hour days for three months now and we don't seem any closer to being ready to go. We are also rapidly running out of time if we are going to get away by mid-September which is the goal. I, of course, am now back in Maine for another two weeks and so of no help at all in getting anything done - other than providing some much needed funds!
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Vessel Name: Osprey
Vessel Make/Model: Shannon38 #33
Hailing Port: East Greenwich, RI
Crew: Tom & Vicky Worosz
About: We have cruised to the Bahamas and back twice ad are now back on land for a while. This Summer (2012) we have outfitted ourseleves with motorcycles and are heading off for a month long "land cruise'

Who: Tom & Vicky Worosz
Port: East Greenwich, RI