On Sep 28, 6:47 pm, wrote:
On Sep 28, 6:39 pm, A Real Boater wrote:



wrote:
On Sep 28, 5:45 pm, A Real Boater wrote:
wrote:
Went to the coast to help a friend install his rebuilt 4 cyl diesel
and work on my boat. His engine install went well and I am very
impressed at his primitive engineering to get the engine from his
truck to the boat cockpit and from there to the cabin and down to its
mounts.
My boat did not go so well.
First, I verified that my diesel waterpump begins to pump and then
stops. I decided to think about that for awhile while I put my roller
furling back on. I installed it myself 4 years ago so I thought this
would go well but did not forsee that 4 years of age would cause my
tendency to get dehydrated get so much worse. I literally drank a
gallon of water in two hours. When I start to get dehydrated, I
simply cannot think clearly and end up doing stupid things. The
install was difficult. Once it was up, I couldnt raise the jib on the
track. For some reason it is jammed up at the top and will have to be
taken down again. Maybe next week will be cooler although it was only
92 yesterday.
Then, once I had drank enough water, I decided to watch my water pump
on the diesel while it ran thinking that maybe the belt is slipping.
Nope, not slipping but then got my flashlight to illuminate things,
AHA. The raw water intake hose seems to be flattened at both ends. I
replaced this hose last year and have not used her that much and the
hose is much more flexy than the previous one. I think I just have
wimpy hose that collapses at the fittings. I will buy better hose but
brought the water pump home for inspection just in case.
When I was younger, the heat didnt bother me and we would tough it out
and sail through summer (in spite of no wind). I just am not able to
do that any more.
So...let's see...

When you dry out, you cannot think clearly and end up doing stupid
things...and you have a wimpy hose.

:)

I don't like the heat much myself. Being on a sailboat in 90F
weather...I'd rather be at home in the A/C.

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Yes Harry, I knew the wimpy hose thing would catch your eye. Around
here, you either tough out the heat or you stay home. Staying home
isnt fun and when I am too old to get out, I will not look back and
say "I wish I'd stayed home".

You forget, I lived in Florida and boated there for more than five years.

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Harry, No, I like the fact that you know the places I talk about.
Panacea in particular, a place hardly anybody outside N. W. Fl knows
about.

In spite of some difficulties, I really do like the scorchingly hot
days where you walk down a sand road barefoot trying o avoid the
stinging nettles while bugs that sound like small aircraft suddenly go
flying up in front of you, even the snakes you see have that look
about em that says "hey, just leave me alone, I wanna get chilled
somehow". The lakes sound like an echo chamber as the totality of all
the frogs reaches over 100 db with the bigger ones going HARUMPH,
HARUMPH near dusk. I even know how to "Grunt up a gator" (call a
gator) so they come close so you can spotlight their red eyes. I may
bitch about the heat, but its home.