First off... my wife is amazing. I'm horrible mechanically. A few weeks ago our outboard wasn't working. I said "Hold on hon! Let me get the hammer!" She said - "Out of my way - I'll work on it". She had the whole thing disassembled in the
dinghy, pouring
fuel into the spark and trying hard to get it to work! Unfortunately, in that case it was due to the carb being gummed up.
A few weeks before that she was realigning the belt on our pressure water
pump and tightening the belt on the alternator. A week ago she replaced the joker valve in our forward head. Yesterday she changed the oil in our diesel.
Then today we're motoring along and I notice white steam coming out of our exhuast pretty steadily. I lean over and see no water coming out of the wet
exhaust. I quick shut off the engine and we drop the hook. So what does the wife do? She changes out the impeller (which didn't solve the problem) and then takes apart the raw water input system (close the through hull, take off hoses to filter, take off hoses to
pump, blow air through, reassemble). We don't know what caused the problem (no debris came out) but the raw water system started working again! She's amazing! And of course the impeller was in a hard to reach place, as all are.
The only problem we have is that we dropped an aluminum flashlight, turned on, with 3 "D" cells into the bilge. The bilge is too deep for us to reach with our arm, and the flashlight is sitting in an inch or so of bilge water, flat, where we can't get a
line lassoed around it. It's not magnetic so we can't pull it out with that. Any ideas?
She's probably far prettier than you deserve as well.
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