Today's Lesson -- Outboards Don't Float

It could happen to anyone... Well we have entered that group of folks who have dropped their outboards into the salt chuck.

They tell me they were able to use some of  the diesel from our
lame fuel tank to flush out the sunken outboard. As Chuggy says,
"everything works out"

And Patty tells me it ran for a good 20 seconds after it hit the water.

Today's departure was delayed somewhat by a wee mishap as the sun was going down last evening. Pat and Bev were returning from their sunset cruise when our outboard mysteriously popped off the back of the dinghy.

With Maureen reading from Wikipedia we were able to get the outboard back onto the mothership and gave it a good freshwater wash and some WD40 into the cylinders. Since that is about the limit of our mechanical ability, and with the distinct possibility of doing more damage than good, and since it was supposed to be happy hour at the Boatshed, we e-mailed our good and reliable friends at Baobab who were down here at 8:00 to take the outboard up to their shop and complete a service (glad now that I had not done the servicing proactively...).

I am happy to report that the engine is running again now and all that is let to do is track down another cowling for a Merc 9.9.

We a re now just waiting for our 'untie' from the central cyclone mooring and we will be on our way to Musket Cove. The weather is fine and we are all looking forward to a couple of fun days in the Mamanca Islands.