We FINALLY got off the dock yesterday after I spent a couple of hours on the phone with the Raymarine Help Desk. The ancient Raymarine C120 chartplotter is so old that nobody will perform service work on it. But the guys of the help desk patiently talked me through 'how to cut and splice internal wires' to get it up and running again. they figure an electrical short "crapped out" the internal buss for the GPS antenna. (Skip, can you see the banana shaped plug on the back?) Anyway, after a call of 59 minutes, Mark Goodyear from Raymarine got the GPS working! We are moving....
We left the dock at about 2pm to motor over to the Diesel fuel dock. (what could go wrong?) Its about a half mile transit. As we were tying up the little boat you could smell 'something wrong.' Turns out that when Dave was working on the Airconditioner earlier he accidently closed the through hull for the main engine water intake. Our little Kubota engine got hot because it didnt have water to cool it. The result was, we burnt up our impellor. (an impellor is a small 'paddle wheel' of rubber that pushes cooling water through the engine)
12:43pm -- follow up note. Dave and I left the boat this morning to drive north of Tampa to be at the Pump place for 2 new impellers when they opened at 7:30a. We gottem' and were back on the boat installing one at 10a. Yippee the impeller worked and water flows out as it's supposed to. BUT it's still overheating. Next option, check the heat exchanger. it's a nasty mess of old corroded crap.
Cant write more now. gotta look up "how to remove a Kubota D1105 heat exchanger on Youtube.
-skip
