somewhere around 0530 this am there was a splash i didnt think anything of, and then followed by some bow noises…i called bubbas name..first nothing, as usual, but not even sound of elephant feets on coach house..uhoh.. then i called again.. YOWOOOOOO!!!! and YOW!! YOW!! from below deck level….uhoh… i look down to see a dark blob of a mess on my snubber bridle and anchor chain juncture. ok. the mess is YOW ing…ok… i call bubba and he follows my voice to where dinghy is side tied to boat. he is swimming circles and even under dink..uhoh….YOW!!!
and he lays his head down to rest IN THE WATER!!..sputters as i call his name..comes closer..i couldnt get with towel..grabbed his slick maine coon mix furrz and skin and haul his exhausted catbutt into dinghy and wrap in towel. he did not shred me..uhoh…too tired to shred momms?? oops…he looked soo scared..he knew he was dying… thank gods i heard and got him out of water….

we are most lucky to still have bubba….this was way too close for comfort.

had this cat not been so tightly bonded with me he would have definitely been a goner ded drowned cat.
benefits..he does come to name and responds to name…he comes to momma, and he goes to bed. he is hungree and wants foods… other things he knows are lets brush bubba–he doesnt mind that..and some other phrases, and he doesnt mind being hugged, as i did that to him all his life–never know when you may need to have to hug cat coming out of water.
best train em to not shred ye…..
so i did add a heavy line to bow so mebbe he can save self when he does this again….

he has fallen overboard while leashed   4 times, none in past 4 years….saved self    3 of those 4 times…

what a morning!!!  is good  to   still have ships cat. he is  my buddy here.

skeereded me.

ok  so we   got the engine almost all the way apart with plans on how to   evict it from inside    cabin.

tomorrow we   finish the  dismantling and  removal of oil pand    the final  dismantlement, then we inspect everything and take heavier than hell items to   machine shop for    true inspection and   fixing vs continuing the saga. 

yep. we are really doing this.   is either  rebuild it in full or  patch and suffer and end up doing the  entire   worst case scenario more than one time.

i say  do it once and lets do it correctly.   get it  over with and move along.    ggrr…

then i can sail again.

and so as our problem has come to head gasket at present, before we go onward i must wait until payday in december.
so we will have a panga tow me to the mangroves when payday comes and we will work there, where i am safe from dragging anchor and free of rent so we can fix me for christmas.

hopefully.

until payday, nothing happens.

had i known this was the case i would have gone to  mangroves already instead of sitting in a marina with itchy feet unable to  do anything or go   anywhere with a seized engine.

the head gasket problem was caused by the runaway  bit   this engine did in june, and now is seized as a result of all of this mayhem….

new engine color schemeught the    drop year was 1982, but i was  incorrect. it was  june  1988.  ok..  still has no indented numerals on it anywhere.  yes we searched!!!

i had thought the    drop year was 1982, but i was  incorrect. it was  june  1988.  ok..  still has no indented numerals on it anywhere.  yes we searched!!!

new engine color scheme

ok so we were trying for noisey and smelly and leaky today.
we got clunk.  so we fixed battery connections…. funny  the electrical system works some better now…
ok
second clunk day.  hhmmmmmmmm….
and of course, no one has a prybar for the fly wheel.
ok. .tomorrow we go for unclunk and big noise and smelly and leaky and prolly muy smokey. we just see what color smokey after unseizing engine..
ok…..

i am sooo ready to move this barge out to anchor……

poco a poco……