Later in the afternoon, The Yanmar agent called Ekstr�m BTW, and i branch office of an old Finnish company, and spread some light over the situation. When I first told him a suspected the engine to be filled with water he spontaneously said -'Oh, shit!'. Now he said, that the positive side of the mishap, was that I never ran the engine after the cooiling water made entry to the cylinders. Instead of bent valves and maybe more, he now suggested that it just might be the head gaxket and a few more minor seals that needed replacement.

He were to order the necessary parts from Holland (the European warehouse for Yanmar parts), recieve those on Thursday, (today is Monday) and be able to send a machanic over on Friday.

Now I got an idea, that I thought would be very bright.

For the mechanic to get frm Tallinn to Lehtma, he would first have to drive for an hour and a half, then take a ferry for another hour or more and lastly drive an hour more. That would obviously take the major part of his working day, and as a result cost me a lot of gold, so this is what came to my mind:

The forecast is ''promising us ' a Notherly wind 2-10 knots tomorrow then decreasing and veering to south the day after. Since it is 25 miles to Dirham port on the mainland, and the heading to get there approx. 80 degrees, we should be able to sail there. Upon a look in a *Pilot book for Estonia' the harbour looked pretty easy to sail into and even dock under sail only. A leading line into the harbour of 170 degrees, then turn SB round the head of the breakwater and simly going alongside it on the sheltered southern side.

So, we went to bed early to get going in the morning