OK Now, Who Broke What this Past Weekend ?

[Chief Engineer]

Impellers seem to be the number one thing....ya gots to open that ^%$& seacock.

Batteries come in #2

Getting air in the fuel system(diesel) is # 3.(owner changing filters)

[Bash]

Oops. We sailed out Saturday, anchored overnight, and sailed home Sunday without breaking anything in the process.

Sorry about that, Chief. Won't happen again, I can assure you.

[Sailmonkey]

1 broken motor mount, and the beginings of a need to put new clutch discs in the transmission.

[colemj]

Good lord Chief! Were you on our boat this weekend? We lost an impeller and had filter and air in fuel problems on the genset.

Stay away you devil - I don't want any battery problems!

Mark

[sabray]

Steering chain jumped it's cog at the pedestal. Jammed the works up pretty good broke a older style block that lead the staysl sheet. The block failed from crevice corrosion. Both replaced and repaired. The pride us wounded a bit it is suggested that will fix that.

[sailorboy1]

Wasn't on the boat this past weekend, but last weekend it was the seal for the hot water heater. I'm happy to say that I avoided the Chief's 3 deadly sins.

[GeoPowers]

Broke the positive lead off of the flame sensor of my Webasto heater while finishing up the install of a new burner unit (found old burner was bad off after routine maint. check).

Fortunately had a spare flame sensor. Optest sat!

Wonder how hot that end of the flame sensor gets- probably hot enough to rule out soldering to keep the failed one as a spare...??

[Jetexas]

What isn't broken?

My latest bumble was having an exhaust stud break off in the heat exhanger while pulling it off the donor engine to put on the new engine. I spent four nights trying to bang, boil, and drill it out before inadvertently poking a hole through the stud sleeve into the heat exchanger itself. I finally get it back from the machine shop this week -- hopefully for less than what a new one would have cost me.

[Ex-Calif]

Fixed the autopilot this weekend, added another turning block to the mainsheet traveler and didn't didn't break anything.

That makes me +2.

[Chief Engineer]

2 wins in a row....you are doing better than the Baltimore (B)Orioles

[muskoka]

Seawater hose clamp - boom, salt water all over the genset. We only ran for about 2 minutes before realizing something was amiss but boy, that was a lot of water. And about 2 hours cleaning up!!! Thankfully no real damage.

[FrankZ]

I broke the plastic part of the fitting for my galley sink drain.. righty tighty.. lefty loosey.. except when yer upside down and it isn't. A slight turn and then it was loose... the cracking noise clued me in that it wasn't really a good loose though.

Oh well.

[psteele235]

Macerator pump - working? Oh s..t!

[IdoraKeeper]

I am at work so I can't be the one breaking the boat. However the varnish genius is working on her maybe she did. I'll find out when I get home. I did however break the airplane--water got in my window in heavy rain in Orlando and it drained down and shorted out the com panel--the computers loved it.

Todd

[MarkJ]

Boat has been in a little fishing village all weekend, but the 300 miles to get here:

• The red and green nav lights have an intermittant fault..... they work fine in the day time!

• Main sheet traveler pin that hold one of the blocks has chipped a bit off and is just about to break. This is my big problem that could be quite expensive. I think I can do 300 miles to a big town as long as the wind is up the bum. Its annoying because I can't see why it has worn through and if I replace it that too will wear through.

• Lost one shackle pin

We have had 2 days 'off' so I will look at these problems tommorrow. Or the next day.... ish



Mark