Yup, got the head project done today. Y-valve reassembled, hoses degunked and all reinstalled. And bonus-it works!

I’m paying for it though. Even though I only stabbed myself once, there are a lot of sore muscles and I’m so exhausted today, I sent Ann to dinner with the boys from Gato Go who are moored nearby. I’m just too tired to be sociable. But tomorrow’s a new day and one without a major boat project, so we’ll have some fun. If the weather’s good, we’ll paddleboard up river into the mangroves with our friends from “Eagles Wings” who also bought boards in Whangarei.

Also, hopefully the engine shop in Suva will have received the injectors and injector pump by then (it will be Monday here) and I might get some indication from them on where we stand on getting them repaired.

As for the head hose-it took a bottle of acid to clean two, four foot sections. Even then, there were a couple of spots where I finally whacked it with a winch handle to break the clog. Brutal, but if you live on a boat, this is a fairly regular bit of maintanence. About every two years it seems.

Our batteries are getting low without the engine to charge them a bit. Since its partly cloudy pretty much every day, the solar panels don’t quite keep up. Fortunately, Gato Go has generously offered their portable generator. It delivers AC power and plugs into the dock power outlet. If it works as advertised, tomorrow I’ll process some photos and get ’em up.

Till then…