Now, what to do?

[HinewaisMan]

Right, here I am, having sailed from Australia, repowering in Guernsey having blown up my engine.

Well impressed with the guys helping me – Marine & General – but I have a slight problem/opportunity.

What to do with a dead donk?

The engine itself is totally stuffed – a large lump of cast iron with broken con-rods and seized pots. But I have all these peripheries – alternator, fuel pump, fuel lines, injectors, gearbox etc.

Any ideas how or where I can claw a few bucks back selling them?

 

[Sandyman]

On here I would think or even Ebay

What Donk is is ?? Bound to be someone on here with similar.

 

[Sandyman]

G'day Bruce

Have ya gone walkabout ?

No worries mate

 

[Sandyman]

Still on a walkabout

 

[Sandyman]

Must of had to much Grog

 

[penfold]

Ebay or the small ads here, or maybe Boats&Outboards but that costs money.

 

[Bosun Higgs]

What to do with a dead donk?

You didnt bring Donk with you from Oz did you? Sad to hear he didnt make it. Wasnt those nasty Columbians we saw in the film was it?++


E Bay is your friend.

 

[guernseyman]

Any ideas how or where I can claw a few bucks back selling them?

Have you asked M & G?

Try Tubby & Co, engineers just half a mile north of M & G.

I think people use buried engine blocks as moorings in the bays round here.

 

[Talbot]

You still havent said what sort of engine. If it is a 3gm30 I would be interested in some

 

[RichardS]

You still havent said what sort of engine. If it is a 3gm30 I would be interested in some

I'd be surprised if a 45 foot steel ketch only had a 30hp engine ...... but I'm definitely no expert in such things!

Richard

 

[Talbot]

I'd be surprised if a 45 foot steel ketch only had a 30hp engine ...... but I'm definitely no expert in such things!
Richard

Hey / I am not a complete dummy (despite all reports to the contrary), but someone else with spares for that engine might just also have been reading . . . . . . . . . .

 

[Sandyman]

Looks like the OP is still on walkabout. Or real big hangover

 

[Sandyman]

bump

 

[HinewaisMan]

G'day peeps, sorry been tied up over the last few days.

Originally didn't want to say what engine it was in case someone flamed me for trying to sell stuff here.

But since you ask - it's a Volvo TMD22P - the turbo charged 78HP thingy. The gear box is a Borg Warner Velvetdrive 2.57 ratio.

Sh!t happens, but we've been in a lot worse places than Guernsey where loosing the engine would have been seriously serious so I'm not complaining. And these Guernsey folk are so nice - they even let me go out racing with them.

 

[Sandyman]

G'day peeps, sorry been tied up over the last few days.

Hope you enjoyed it

So Peter what donk did you replace the Volvo with ??

Sure you can sell bits on here mate, no worries.