gonfishing
Well-Known Member
it all started saturday morning boat was due for launching saturday afternoon and the engine wouldn't start found the problem loose cable connection to starter motor so got engine started sweet as a nut brilliant!!! launch went smoothly so now back on the water at last, except the engine wouldn't start again !!! b****Y hell now what's wrong ?? i then found a fractured fuel line to the fuel pump!!!! it's now 4pm so cannot get replacement ,luckily one of the charter boat skippers offers to raft up and take me to my mooring great !! only snag was we were unable to manouvre the boat into onto my pontoon so spent the night on a temporary berth.
Up with the larks in the morning and gets the goodies to make up a replacement fuel line all now refitted and engine running like a watch!! !!! so time comes to manouvre boat to my own mooring i had previously warned the other berth holders that i was moving over, so they were all on standby with extra fenders and brooms etc. arrived on mooring stern first with only my pride dented and nothing else cos i made a right pigs ear of it!! still will learn . this is where things start to get REALLY interesting we decide to take the 1300hr lock out, somehow managed to enter lock broadside!! loch master duly announces that anyone available to give the novice a hand at tying up !! we were duly helped by a couple from a rag and stick in front of us!! we were all warned of passage to take when leaving the lock as it was one of the big spring tides and we only had a narrow channel of 1.5 meters depth!! on the route out i could feel the out drive on occasion touching the mud as i hadn't mastered driving the thing in a straight line yet !!! nerves are now really jangling but we reach the mouth of the harbour and open sea so start to open up , chose a course that would allow us to pass the dredging operations astern and gave the throttle a bit more just started to come up on the plane SPLUTTER SPLUTTER the engine dies OH god help !!!! engine won't restart, damned engine is having nothing of it, so now here we are on the drift in the main port access said dredger is now bearing down on us so i now have no option i drop anchor, politely wave the dredger away with a 2 finger salute, and reach for radio PAN PAN >PAN PAN >PAN PAN, advised coast gaurd of situation adv will make repair shortly as fuel filter was blocked, at this stage the yacht that had assisted us in the lock calls up and offers assistence which i was more than pleased to accept yatch requests depth of water under me i advise showing 8ft on depth log, so yacht tacks round onto a course for us and some 50 yds away promptly runs aground!!!!!!!!!! OH NO !! this is just NOT my day. Whilst the yacht resorts to using her engine to get herself of the mud bank i set to work changing flter which was still clean and checking water seperator could find nothing wrong, so tries engine again and it starts and is running sweet as a nut, the yacht had now extracated itself from the bank , so i radio her and advise engine now running she sets of for a days sailing, i also call coast gaurd to advise i have lifted anchor and was back under power and was now clear of the main channel, so confident all was well we set of for mumbles up on the plain and away to go....... for about half a mile and the b****Y engine fails again Oh S**t drops anchor again repeats previous actions new filter etc etc also adds a drop of oil into the strombergs to make sure the pistons are o.k and not causing the problems but the engine refuses to start, by now the girls are complaining swmbo is looking pale and i am fighting down the rising tide of panic
half an hour passes and the tide is starting to make i try the engine one more time before calling coastgaurd again and she starts!!! relief!! so up anchor and head for home at 2/3 knts we now had wind and tide with us but it was an uncomfortable journey in a beam sea, i contact tawe lock to advise we are limping home and they advise to tie up on pontoon outside of lock we duly arrive at pontoon in the nick of time as the engine fails again!! and we drift up to pontoon and tie up, There was a BIG sigh of relief from all of us, as we are now safe we had to wait 40 mins to enter the lock and the engine still would not start contact tawe lock to advise to arrange assistence, but non available in marina then out of desperation i try engine again and the b****Y B***H started again!!!! from there it was plain sailing back to the berth under escort from another boat "just in case" to be greeted by my neighbours brandishing brooms and fenders whilst i docked somewhat better i might add than my earlier attempt, tied up, had a beer plus another etc, etc.
can't wait for next weekend
regards
julian
<hr width=100% size=1>WHAT??? more petrol!!!
Up with the larks in the morning and gets the goodies to make up a replacement fuel line all now refitted and engine running like a watch!! !!! so time comes to manouvre boat to my own mooring i had previously warned the other berth holders that i was moving over, so they were all on standby with extra fenders and brooms etc. arrived on mooring stern first with only my pride dented and nothing else cos i made a right pigs ear of it!! still will learn . this is where things start to get REALLY interesting we decide to take the 1300hr lock out, somehow managed to enter lock broadside!! loch master duly announces that anyone available to give the novice a hand at tying up !! we were duly helped by a couple from a rag and stick in front of us!! we were all warned of passage to take when leaving the lock as it was one of the big spring tides and we only had a narrow channel of 1.5 meters depth!! on the route out i could feel the out drive on occasion touching the mud as i hadn't mastered driving the thing in a straight line yet !!! nerves are now really jangling but we reach the mouth of the harbour and open sea so start to open up , chose a course that would allow us to pass the dredging operations astern and gave the throttle a bit more just started to come up on the plane SPLUTTER SPLUTTER the engine dies OH god help !!!! engine won't restart, damned engine is having nothing of it, so now here we are on the drift in the main port access said dredger is now bearing down on us so i now have no option i drop anchor, politely wave the dredger away with a 2 finger salute, and reach for radio PAN PAN >PAN PAN >PAN PAN, advised coast gaurd of situation adv will make repair shortly as fuel filter was blocked, at this stage the yacht that had assisted us in the lock calls up and offers assistence which i was more than pleased to accept yatch requests depth of water under me i advise showing 8ft on depth log, so yacht tacks round onto a course for us and some 50 yds away promptly runs aground!!!!!!!!!! OH NO !! this is just NOT my day. Whilst the yacht resorts to using her engine to get herself of the mud bank i set to work changing flter which was still clean and checking water seperator could find nothing wrong, so tries engine again and it starts and is running sweet as a nut, the yacht had now extracated itself from the bank , so i radio her and advise engine now running she sets of for a days sailing, i also call coast gaurd to advise i have lifted anchor and was back under power and was now clear of the main channel, so confident all was well we set of for mumbles up on the plain and away to go....... for about half a mile and the b****Y engine fails again Oh S**t drops anchor again repeats previous actions new filter etc etc also adds a drop of oil into the strombergs to make sure the pistons are o.k and not causing the problems but the engine refuses to start, by now the girls are complaining swmbo is looking pale and i am fighting down the rising tide of panic
half an hour passes and the tide is starting to make i try the engine one more time before calling coastgaurd again and she starts!!! relief!! so up anchor and head for home at 2/3 knts we now had wind and tide with us but it was an uncomfortable journey in a beam sea, i contact tawe lock to advise we are limping home and they advise to tie up on pontoon outside of lock we duly arrive at pontoon in the nick of time as the engine fails again!! and we drift up to pontoon and tie up, There was a BIG sigh of relief from all of us, as we are now safe we had to wait 40 mins to enter the lock and the engine still would not start contact tawe lock to advise to arrange assistence, but non available in marina then out of desperation i try engine again and the b****Y B***H started again!!!! from there it was plain sailing back to the berth under escort from another boat "just in case" to be greeted by my neighbours brandishing brooms and fenders whilst i docked somewhat better i might add than my earlier attempt, tied up, had a beer plus another etc, etc.
can't wait for next weekend
regards
julian
<hr width=100% size=1>WHAT??? more petrol!!!
