yup. just what i said—seems the symptoms we saw behind us in ocean were signs of oil and carbon an d stuff not spozed to be there….and so we made it into barra, as yáll know, and i anchored in the lagoon, which yáll know, and as we began to raise anchor the diesel decided to…..
what i said…
no overheat.
no detonate.
cracked all injectors to make it stop, after the kill button was shown to not be appropriate way to cease function of engine. so compression broken we were able to breathe again–took just under 5 minuets.
the post adrenalin shakes lasted 12 hours.
funny thing–the smoke attracted fishermen who assisted in bringing boat into marina, so is safe now…..
and steering cable popped off the quadrant as we were being towed….and we went grounded as we were towed—good thing is soft bottom here..lol…and the vhf didnt work for a bit–fixed connections, it does now…
has been a lil exciting this week…..

we may be here a while…..

we turn on engine for warming, we go forward and begin to raise anchor… diesel is deciding to increase own rpms, kinda fast….oops runaway….
so all stop not work…..go below and as rpms continue to increase,, find the 11 mm wrench and crack all injectors, one by one until the noise stops…took all 4 to shut it down…..lotsa smoke out exhaust—-lost…fishermen thought we were en fuego…..we enlightened em and got a 500 peso tow into marina, with only 2 other small incidents–a slight grounding in 2 ish ft of water–good thing bottom is soft ..lol…and loss of steering—somehow the cable popped off the quadrant—i am so glad this happened with repair guy on board and in a lagoon and not at sea—-coulda been a lot less positive…
there was no detonation of engine, thank dogs, and there was no major problem , other than adding to the list of repair-me on this boat–sometimes it feels as if i have not done anything ..but i know i have–is still a shorter list than when i got this boat….

i am sooo glad this engine still has an intact block….we working on the reason exactly why it did this….

to be continued……

seems as we repair here in la barra de navidad, i get to have engine repaired as well as the rest of this boat—egads—but i will have a decent boat to continue onward with…..after all this i will go do the haulout and painting mess i need to get done, and inspection of hull……

good thing  this is cruising, aka repairing boats in exotic locations….i love this lifestyle–it rocks….