When you are cruising your dinghy is your method for getting to and from the boat. While the boat has been at the docks the dinghy was not needed. That changed as we left Morehead City.
Just before we left we found the carburetor was not working so had to order a new one. The new one showed up at New Bern and did the job, the engine ran well. Then the engine kept shutting down because we were not getting water flowing through the engine to keep it cool. OK - order a new impeller kit and that showed up at Washington today.
Before repair - Where are the impeller fins? |
| Like they say - Well there's your problem. New on top, old in pieces on bottom of photo |
Now have cooling water going through the engine, and the engine starts on the first pull.
Found out that the old impeller was really not doing the job. Took the dinghy out for a test run and had no issues other than it is fast. Not an issue we can't deal with.
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