Friday night, I go to see a band called "session A9" at Bury Met. Brilliant. Four fiddles, a guitar, boran and keyboards. Quite an unusual line-up, but an amazing sound.
Saturday Morning. I've been experimenting with "different" breakfasts, so a good start to the day.
I turn up at the yard, and the crane is currently lifting a boat out of the canal. Good portent perhaps ? Mr engine mans' van is nowhere to be seen. Is the job done?
Disaster snatched from the Jaws of Victory!
The engine is sat on the bottom of the engine room. Literally.
It turns out that the swim is too shallow for anything larger than a 15" prop, so a modified skeg has been put on to lower the driveshaft. The driveshaft is lower than normal in the boat, so the engine mounts were put in lower. However, the engine is now resting on its sump!
To add insult to injury, the engine mount spacing is wrong, and the cooling tank is on the wrong side!
AAAAARRRRRGGGHHHHHH!!!!!
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