30-Mar-2015
Back in La
Cruz!
About half
way to Tenacatita, Mags checked the engine room, as we often do when running on
the engine. For the second time she came back with a report of water filling
the bilge. As a side note, we don’t leave the bilge pump on auto so that we
will always know when we have issues – if we check the engine room! Also, if a
diesel return line comes off we won’t be pumping raw diesel overboard by
accident.
First
question is always “can the pumps keep up?” Well they did and then it’s a quick
search to find the source. Once again it was the raw water pump back seal. Only
460 hours on it since we replaced it in Walter’s Cove on the west coast of
Vancouver Island last July. Mags found the bilge filling on that occasion as
well.
We made the
call to return to Banderas Bay area as Puerto Vallarta /La Cruz have a lot more
marine supply opportunities. We were pumping every 10 minutes and made it back
to the anchorage after dark but there was a good moon and it is an anchorage we
know so all went well. No idea how long this may take but pictures and updates
to follow.
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