It's my birthday!

 

After 7 hours yesterday and 20 minutes (!) today we’ve solved it.  I found a ceramic washer in the engine bilge when bailing out at 7.00 am this morning.  Harry took one look at it and said ‘I know where that comes from.  The water pump!  That’s our problem!’  And he was right.  5 minutes to replace the washer in the pump, started the engine and hey presto!, water coming out of the exhaust.  Buckets of water!

 

You may ask what was the washer doing in the bilge?  Good question!  Didn’t take me long to figure out the answer.  When my new best friend from last week replaced the impellor the washer must have dropped out unnoticed.  And lain there laughing at me for over a week!  My best friend, Benny the coastguard,  from last week is still my best friend from last week.  But my best friend from this week is Harry, who is two years, 364 days younger than me.  His birthday was the day before mine.  At the moment I feel my birthday came a day late, today!

 

Thanks Harry.  Celebrations in St P!