Thursday, April 3, 2008

The "Bukh" engine was retired



After 40 years of good service, The Bukh is sadly diagnosed with terminal illness, would probably take too much work to rescucitate, let alone out limited time before the charter time and $. After carefully labelling every wire and pipe, disconnected the alternators, drained the oil, it was lifted out of its burrow (well engine room) by the way of block and tackle. Thanks to careful thinking from the boat builder Steffen: The steel frame above the engine room was originally threaded to hook large blocks and the engine lifted straight up!