Interesting Day
28 July 2020 | Atlantic Ocean
Mike Miller
The day started off the same as before, motoring with no wind and progressively hotter as the day progressed. As forecast, the wind has
started increasing, it's now at 10 knots and we're sailing with all sails set and making good speed (6.5kts). This is good but we started
sailing because I noticed the oil pressure on the engine was very low. Turns out it's not really a problem with the oil pressure although it
was down .25L but more likely with the sending unit per my trusty Nigel Calder book on diesels where he specifically calls it out for my
engine. Checked it out pretty thoroughtly because I'm gonna need it in the Bay. Good thing too, because the fan belt was just about to
fail, probably would have failed as I approached the dock. I'll fix that later on after it's cooled off. The other interesting thing is that while
messing about with the sails, I found the dreaded piece of bent metal on the deck. Sigh, it looks a little like it might be an axle for a block,
it's bent and a little rusty. It looks almost like the shell casing of .22 bullet but I've never had a gun aboard. I've no idea what it's for and
sincerely hope it's not really important. Never a fun thing to find. I think I'll save it and drop it on the deck of a boat whose captain is
annoying. LOL!