Water Pump Good as New!

Friday morning early, Larry removed the water pump from the engine. Our seal was leaking and he had ordered a new one three weeks ago and it was finally in. He was unable to remove the shaft so we took the entire pump to the marina to ask if they could remove it and put the new seal in. We walked the two miles to the marina but the Yanmar mechanic was busy installing an engine into a boat. They will close on the weekend and we figured we would have to wait till Monday to get our pump back. The Gal at the desk said she would have the mechanic look at it after lunch and she would hail us via VHF channel 16 with a report. We were lucky to get a ride back to town with another cruiser in a cab. We did a little grocery shopping along the way and arrived back at the boat before 2:00 Pm. We were just sitting down for lunch when we got the call. The mechanic had not only looked at it but he had already changed the seal. It's amazing how quick a job can be done with the proper tools. No matter how many tools we seem to have aboard inevitably we never have the proper one.

The picture is of Larry reinstalling our water pump. After he finished he went above to fire up the engine and my job was to watch for water spouts on the pump. Fortunately none happened. Another great job done by Captain Larry. Any thing he didn't know how to do before we lived aboard he certainly is learning how to do it now.

Yesterday, Saturday we lifted anchor and set sail to Tilloo Cay. We spent one night here with Rich and Julie but had to get out of harms way of a front coming in and went to Little Harbor. It is just beautiful here now with under 10 knots of wind no waves and lots of sunshine. Larry is out fishing now on the dinghy and we plan to stay put and do some snorkeling later today. Our plan is to do a little Cay hopping this week and reprovision next weekend and then start working our way back to jump off to the states.