"Paguro Genset update
This will be the last time I bore you all with the ongoing problems of this piece of Italian exotica - promise.
A diesel engineer and a marine electrician came on board this morning and after an exhaustive series of tests and experiments, both agreed that the machine was impossible to either start or run in its present condition. Neither was prepared to attempt to work on it further in situ and the only alternative offer was to unbolt the entire unit, including the separate water-cooled inverter, and dismantle the whole thing on the work bench.
Since the nearest spare parts are in Brisbane, or more likely in Milan, we agreed that this was better left until T2 reaches Mooloolaba, within striking distance of Brisbane where the agents are based.
The boat is still fully operational without it, so this is what I've decided to do.
Time for a scotch.........or two X;{"
