Anchored in St Martin Lagoon last night our anchor started to drag, no problem, we just motor forward and drop it again.
Well that would be easy. The fan belt started squealing, then shredded it self and got eaten by the timing belt after wrapping itself round the crank end pulley. For goodness sake why when I was already stressing.
we then had to put the anchor out at speed with the dingy.
To replace the timing belt after cutting away all the old fan belt I had to figure out where tdc is, what posi the cam should be in, and what marks are relevant to the injector pump.
All in about 6 hours later working with a tiny torch, my little engine is running again
phew
thought I had lost it there for a mo..
much relief !
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