[Public-List] A new engine adventure...

[Jonathan Bresler via Public-List]

On the bright side its good to know that you have good flow into the engine
cooling jacket from the raw water intake.

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Gordon Laco via Public-List <
public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:

> Yep...
>
> On 2016-07-07, at 11:12 AM, Wes Gardner <wesgardner1952 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Gord,
> >
> > Is this a drain plug you use for winterizing?
> >
> > Always exciting to have floating floor boards....
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Gordon Laco via Public-List <
> public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> >> Hello gang...
> >>
> >> Last night being Wednesday, SURPRISE sortied from the club to do battle
> as
> >> usual.  The air was very light and uncharactistically from the east, so
> that
> >> put the start at the far end of our end of Severn Sound.  We motored
> all the
> >> way out, shut down and began the usual prestart jousting.   I¹ll gloss
> over
> >> the great start we had, how MAID MARION, our arch rival, tried doing a
> tack
> >> just before and never really got moving again in the very light air...
> >>
> >> So there we were gliding along with 0.7 knots showing on the knotmeter
> and
> >> laying the windward mark due to a huge lift right at the start.  I was
> >> chuckling to myself when one of my crewmembers called to me Œhey Gord,
> the
> >> floorboards are floating¹.
> >>
> >> Sure enough, the bilges were completely flooded.  We quickly pumped the
> >> water out and marveled at how strong the batteries were despite the fact
> >> that they may have spent days under water (assuming a slow trickle leak)
> >> Nothing more was coming in, so I reckoned I¹d worry about the leak
> later.
> >>
> >> We completed the race, the bilges were still clear (we¹d left the
> >> floorboards up to help the battery tops dry).  We sparked up the engine
> and
> >> motored for home.
> >>
> >> Partway back to the club, the bilges were full again.  As we reversed to
> >> stop at our jetty, the engine died.  I never like to let it end an
> >> engagement on it¹s own terms, so I tried to start it again, and it
> wouldn¹t
> >> fire although it spun well on the starter.
> >>
> >> Off came the motor compartment cover.  The liner pan beneath the engine
> was
> >> full of water and overflowing into the bilge, but no new water seemed
> to be
> >> coming in.    I said to Clint ³hit the starter for me please ... Uh I
> mean
> >> Œdamn you¹² (we have a running gag going in the boat over how I used to
> be
> >> admonished in Officer¹s Basic in the RCN about being too polite when
> giving
> >> orders)
> >>
> >> The engine cranked, and immedeatly a shower of water sprayed from the
> engine
> >> block to the starter housing, and from that all over the compartment.  A
> >> drain plug had come out.    I put in a new one from my parts kit.  Went
> and
> >> had a beer at the club house... 30 minutes later, figureing the engine
> had
> >> dried out tried the starter.  The engine ran sweetly as usual and there
> was
> >> no leak.
> >>
> >> That was a new one...
> >>
> >> Gord #426 Surprise
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Jonathan M Bresler
S/V Constance Alberg 30 #262
Annapolis/Eastport MD