July 06-08, 2000 -- Days at Dock

July 6-8, 2000 -- Days at Dock On July 6, since we were near a post office, we decided to take care of mailing off the pictures that we had promised to various people. In addition, we would be able to wander around the town and pick up a few of the things we were running low on. So, after sending off the pictures of the damage and dropping off the contact information for our insurance adjuster, we started our walk into town. The first place we stopped was the post office. We mailed off the tall ship pictures to Reed and Mary Jane, who were with us on Britican. We also sent the duplicate New Years pictures off to Henri and Anne from the Bahamas that we just got developed. We then wandered towards downtown. We checked out a couple of shops, and managed to purchase a couple of things that were on our list. We then hit the little general store so we could pick up some perishables. I found frozen sword fish steaks, which would help keep the milk chilled on the walk back from town. It worked out well, and we headed back to the boat with enough stuff to keep us underway for another week. After we got back to the boat, one of the workers stopped by to look at everything. He let us know that he should be able to formulate an estimate for everything except the stainless steel fabrication. That would have to wait until Kato Marine received the stanchions. July 7 saw us completing the estimate process as closely as it could be, pending the stainless estimate. After reviewing it, we oked the fax to the insurance adjuster. We waited patiently for our new injectors which never came. Braxton immediately jumped into action and found out what happened. Alaska Deisel fell behind in their order fulfillment, so the injectors went out a day late. There is no Saturday delivery on Blue label shipments. Alaska Deisel agreed to ship out a second set "red label" (overnight with Saturday delivery), and we stayed the night for free. On July 8, we had just finished breakfast when we received a knock on the boat. Mary, the dockmaster let us know that a boat with reservations was waiting on the T-Head. She let us know that we didn't need to vacate until noon since that is official check out time. We decided to head out even though we were still waiting on our injectors because the delivery could happen anytime during the day on Saturday. Wouldn't you know it, we weren't at anchor 10 minutes when Oxford Boat Yard hailed us on the radio to let us know that our injectors arrived. We dropped the dinghy and I went in to pick them up. As soon as I got back, we installed the new injector and fired tink up. He worked perfectly! We put him under load for about an hour with absolutely no problem. We shut him down, and enjoyed the rest of the day. That evening, we tried to fire tink up again, but he wouldn't stay running. We figured that there was still some air in the system somewhere. We tried bleeding him again, but found that we weren't able to get fuel to the injectors any longer. Hmmm. Something else appears to have gone wrong. We fired up Ling-Ling. We did a few more checks on Tink to no avail. We are almost certain that it is now the injector pump, but we want a second opinion before spending the money on this. We will hand tink over to an expert to verify our finding