SERIOUS MOTOR PROBLEM and a TRIP TO IKEA
Being some rain on Monday we took the key of the Marina’s
meeting room to sit in comfort and space and use the wifi to catch up with some
work, like promoting our Conscious Sailing Holiday Thailand February 2019. The
boatyard manager was in the office so I asked confirmation that the serviced
motor would indeed be delivered to the boat this week as advised. He said that
I should come to the yard as there is a serious problem. After their lunch
break I went and was shown the motor running briefly then stopping with oil
leaking from the general area of cylinder head, gasket and piston rings. The
Chinese Parsun outboard is less than two years old so I obtained a copy of the
invoice so that permission can be given to deal with this problem under the warantee.
The yard had the motor already three weeks without looking at it, and we need
to leave the marina by the end of May so this is now a worry.
More work on the boat continued on Tuesday, plus some yoga.
On Wednesday we took Maltese friends Jenny and Andrea the
two hours to Catania airport giving us the opportunity to visit the Ikea store.
It was really hard to find from the nearby airport despite being visible from
the North South autostrada. Whilst modern car GPS can find stores, my old Tom
Tom cannot and was no help. From the car park without cloud we could see the
3000m plus volcano Mt Etna, see photo.
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