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For the thermostat, I hadn't run the engine under any strain. She went to 178.5 and stayed there for 10 hours straight as long as we stayed at or below 2000RPM. The one time it went over 180 we had to light her up to 2200 with a ferry bearing down on us with horn blaring in 100' vis. fog on Penobscot Bay. The oil pressure varies between 50psi and 70psi depending on how hard I run it.
Oil went down to the lower notch on the dipstick, but no leaks. Transmission fluid I may have overfilled (hard to see on the dipstick). It shows full, but we had a cup in the pan after a day of motoring. There seems to be a small leak at the gearshift lever. I'll have to see if there's a seal in there somewhere someday.
Teeny, tiny fuel migration leaks at some of the fittings. Everything loosend up a tiny bit after 10 hours of vibrating, crank the banjo bolt and the fuel filter bolt back down and hit all the fittings and hose clamps. She's good for another 10 hours. Rinse, repeat.
Coolant only comes out through the overflow and just a few drops. Someday I'll put in an expansion tank.
Don't like the belt dust at the alternator, but there's nothing I can do about it. I'd have to take the alternator off (Balmar 100) and figure out shims. Can't do anything with the water pump belt as far as I can see.
New Blue Sea ACR is great. Coordinated with (the youngest figured out the programming and found the little programming tool) Balmar external regulator the Balmar only puts out what you need, the ACR puts it where it needs to go, then stops charging when the battery banks are right and the Balmar backs off. All new panel instruments, too. If the youngest wasn't a 12V, radio, emergency vehicle, nav instrument, lojack, instrumentation freak I'd have been screwed. I'd still be figuring out the panel to engine wiring. OK, so he's still in my Will. Well, if he comes down and finishes the wiring and instrumentation on the Dyer 29 in St. Thomas next month.
She hummed from Winterport, Maine, to Boothbay Harbor, Maine running an average of about 5.9kn over ground (we got a 10' + tide, so you get some serious variation and slow down when tide is against you).
Had to adjust the throttle and set that at 700 RPM idle. Had to adjust the gearshift so it was in the right position at the helm.
Other than that, next shot is across the Gulf of Maine to Sandwich, MA, hopefully sailing on Thursday. Wind switched to Easterly yesterday after it cleared and enough to sail on. The second I started to roll out the headsail my son pointed out it was flat calm again. Motor runs like a champ.
Oh, and Ipad with Navionics is . . . a life saver. These 12 year old Raymarine instruments. Eh. Even figured out the AIS on the radio. That came in handy with the 100' vis we had to deal with until after noon. Islesboro ferry was scary coming out of the fog at the beam. The 5 ferries running out of Rockland I figured out their schedules and vectors and FLEW through there. About the same time I figured out the AIS.
But we used to do this with just paper DR and a watch 25+ years ago. Thing is, I haven't sailed the Coast of Maine since around 2000, and haven't owned a sailboat since around . . . 2010? It all came back quickly.
It really stinks when weather and time don't allow for shaking all the bugs out of everything.
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