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That's as much of the other side of the

keel as I can do given that we're still

on the wooden blocks. Now I think it's

time for me to not become a smurf and

then apply the first coat of rust

converter, or rust inhibitor onto the

exposed parts of the keel so I'm off

from shower

Well here I am fresh out of

now it's time to get into the

rust inhibitor or rust converter this

Axton stuff basically translating the

instructions from Spanish we sand the

surface down to get rid of the surface

rust then we wipe that down with a damp

cloth and dry that off as best as

possible apply a coat of this, leave it

for 30 minutes to activate then we rinse

it off with fresh water and leave it to

dry for 6 hours. At that point we can

come and apply a second coat which must

be left to dry for 24 hours so let's get

into step 1, the sanding

Right, your turn

There's this bit here too, this patch

Right well it's been a little over 30

minutes now since the final coating of

the rust inhibitor rust converter went

on so as you can see the keel is where the

rust inhibitor converter is actually

working it's turned into a white sort of

discoloration. So now we've gotta just

wipe that down with a damp cloth to

remove whatever is being removed, it

doesn't say in the instructions, leave that

to dry for six hours and then tomorrow

we put a second coat on all round and

that is stage one complete. Yeah. It feels

good. It does!

It does doesn't. Like, it's like

we're finally moving forward on

something big

yeah and I've emailed DHL today and

asked them you know where is this

package that arrived in Athens on the

13th of this month. This is the cutlass

bearing you're talking about now.

This is the cutlass bearing yeah

I've told them that hey you know this is

a vital part for us to move forward in

putting the engine back together and

getting the boat back in the water

how come from 13th when it arrived to

now the 20? 28th. 28th today... how?

Where is it?

it's a three hour, four hour drive from

here to Athens so I'll let you know if

anything comes of that

Right let's wipe this down.

Okay. Let's do it!

I've just finished putting the second

coat of the rust inhibitor rust

converter on so we've got to leave

that now for 24 hours. I'm going to take

a little trip into Limni village and to

the hardware store to see if I can tick

a few of the little buy things off my

list here where they'll be less expensive

than if I bought them from a chandler's

in Athens. So I'm off to town I feel as

I feel as though we're making some forward

progress now that we've got the engine

and engine bay area as free and clean

from the oily diesel soot as it can

possibly be. I'm gonna pull the impeller

from the raw water intake on the

engine and see if that's good or whether

it needs replacing and this year things

should go a lot easier because I bought

this impeller puller and I've never not

used it since I bought it so it'll be

interesting to find out how it works

because last time I pulled the impeller

I think I battled with a pair of pliers

for about an hour and a half so this

apparently makes the job a whole lot easier

So this pipe here is where the raw salt

water gets sucked in from the sea cock

down down there and it goes into the

impeller housing where the impeller goes

round and round and round in here and

then pushes the raw sea water up through

into the heat exchanger so we've got

four nuts on here or bolts and a face

plate so we'll undo those, take face plate

off make sure we don't lose the little

rubber gasket that's in there that seals

the whole unit and then we can have a

look at the impeller. We're now looking

at the impeller with the face plate

pulled off - the paper towel's there to

catch all the salt water that runs out

of the system and we've just cleaned the

bilge so I try to keep as much of it out

of the bilge as I can. Some's gone in there so

we've got to go in and mop up the salt

water. Now we can see the impeller from

here - it's not a very good angle but it's

the best I've got - and it does look as

though it is in good shape but I'm gonna

pull it anyway because there can be

little hairline cracks and I want to

make sure that it is in good shape for

next season

The impeller puller works on the

principle of these two arms here

going in and grabbing

hold of the impeller and you tighten

them down with these nuts at the top and

the bottom and then you tighten up the

centre section and so the centre section

goes in and in theory the impeller pulls out

Well as you can probably guess

things don't always go to plan when

you're pulling an impeller. The way the

impeller housing is built onto this

engine the face of it lies in this

direction and directly behind it is the

starter motor and because of the starter

motor being there I can't get the

impeller puller to be fitted correctly

and all the bolts tightened down and

then start screwing in the thing to

extract the impeller. I'm certainly not

gonna be taking the starter motor off

just to pull an impeller so at least

I've got a tool that if anybody else

says have you've got one of those that I

can borrow, I've got one to borrow. So if you

bump into us and you need

an impeller puller, give us a shout

The impeller does look good by the way

so what I might do is I might just clean up

the face and put it back together. All

the arms of the impeller are still in place

Disappointing

Good morning people well we've woken up

to a continuation of yesterday's rain

and the plan today was that we were

gonna start work on coating the keel but

unfortunately it's probably not a good

idea to do that kind of work with the

products we've got with this kind of

humidity around so I've just been for my

morning ablutions and in the apartment

was this package addressed to A B Sea so

we're going to open that up and find out

what it is

I love packages that rattle don't you?

From Heidi Wolfensburger

Cheese? Clock? Money?

Swiss clock!

Or the code to a Swiss bank account

Yeah

Best wishes from Heinz

Happy sailing Heidi

And this is ...

Ooohhh

Oh yum!! Swiss chocolates!

Thank you so much ... there goes my low carb diet

Yummy. Oh thank you

Oh isn't that sweet? Literally!

Well that has

certainly put a smile on our faces on a

rainy day. Thank you Heinz and Heidi

these will be munched at some point

later today and maybe tomorrow...

If they last that long!

We're still waiting for the courier to

deliver the replacement cutlass bearing

so we can't really move forward with any

of this job or the jobs inside the

engine compartment but we have been

thinking forward and if you remember

when we removed the prop shaft in order

to get it through the cutlass bearing we

had to remove this key from the key way

Well our concern was that once we've got

everything back in and in the limited

confines of the engine bay, trying to get

this key back in would prove difficult

Well I've just come down to have a look

at it and do you know what, it's not

gonna be difficult at all. Look at this

Here is the key way

Here is the key

Now, when it was brought out by us it was in

that position there

and as you can see there's quite a bit

of gap for us to try and force that in

properly fully into the keyway but if

you take the key and switch it around

like that it sits nicely in the key way

so that's what we're gonna do, just gonna

put it in like that.

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