Tips, tricks and stories about living aboard and sailing around the world
So we finally lifted the engine out off its spot. It took us a while cause some of the bolts wouldn’t come out so easily. They were so old and rusty that sometimes they didn’t look like bolts anymore. Some of them we had to even saw through. With three strong guys like us :p lifting the engine wasn’t so hard. Now we are scraping all the old paint off and will clean it so that we can repaint it.
Last week and the week before we started to take apart the engine. Lucky for us Paul (my dad) was there for to help us along. We both don’t know anything about engines (yet). So Paul helped us with the parts that needed to be taken out first and told us what the different parts are for. Next week we need to clean the parts and then we can start to rebuild the engine. When it’s all put back together again we’ll give it a nice new paint job. Peace\/
The last two weeks it was stormy weather in Holland. The Seadog got some hard winds blown at her. The temporary roof of the tarp was partially demolished. Me and my dad did some serious repair work to keep things dry again. It may not look very pretty, but hopefully it’s stormproof.
Yesterday we started clearing the roof and removing all the object that were placed on there. We also took out a lot off stuff for example the stove, table and heater. And our friend Loran came by to check out what we where up to. Check out the pictures!
Friday night we bounced on some heavy Dubstep and the day after we torn apart the whole right wall of the cabin. Man it was a nice weekend 🙂