Even more blimming adventures of the unwanted kind !

[oldgit]

Picked up the boat from South Dock on Thursday to get it back to the Medway before another low came in.Excellent forecast,slight westerly breeze n ebb tide,perfick but somebody forget to tell the weather gods.
Time we get to Sea Reach,its a brisk east wind that greets us and some big lumps,sigh!

The port engine coughs and dies just off Southend and the starboard one sounds distinctly unhealthly as we throttle back and creep back up river and of course there aint no water to get back onto berth so boat is abandoned at local secure pier over night.

Pretty certain what happened,we got a real pasting coming back from Ramsgate previous week and suspected 30 years of crud had been disturbed.
Fortunately being an old boat you can get to stuff and with the floor up and the inspection plate off all is revealed.
A layer of very fine black slurry is suspended in the fuel,best described as the muck that comes out of an old central heating system.So its pump out the diesel scub the bottom of tank with an old broom then flush out and pop the lid back on.Refill with filtered old fuel.
The primary filters were virtually blocked solid the secondaries not so dirty but nearly empty on removal .
Both engines now revving 2-300 rpm more RPM then before.
Hurrah..........

 

[Gavi]

Nor sure which would been worse: Having theproblem where you did or during the Oageant?

 

[oldgit]

"Not sure which would been worse: Having the problem where you did or during the Pageant"

All sorted now just spent the day de-ponging the boat.
Amazing how a drop of fairy liquid will get rid of diesel whiff from bilges etc.
Spent ages in shower to achieve same affect.

 

[boatone]

Was there any water in the bottom of the tank ? Possible might have been diesel bug?

Wish I could be as calm as you seem to be with these criseeeees

 

[oldgit]

Was there any water in the bottom of the tank ? Possible might have been diesel bug?

Wish I could be as calm as you seem to be with these criseeeees

Not a drop of moisture in the tank and never in "mumble" " mumble" years of boating have ever suffered from it .

As for the Medway stiff upper lip,it could owe something to the fact that I was pretty certain that some of the charter local fishing boats would still have been out well after dark and the only fate that awaited would have been a gin palace owner towed home behind a boat full of jeering fishermen


Suspect this chap did however get an unexpected night out.