The engine comes off the boat

Today, Snediker & I moved the engine to the floor of the boat bay. We set up TaySned’s staging aft of the cabin to starboard, and used it to support the end of an I-beam. The other end was set on a pillar against the south wall of the bay. A carriage on the I-beam allowed us to move the engine easily up from the cabin roof, across to the edge of the boat, and then to lower it to a wheeled crib on the floor. I asked Mike Horrigan to de-scale the engine with a needle gun.

The keel is nearly shaped, without the rabbet, still a little over-sized. Today I finished removing the old keel bolts, except for the one through Floor #34. Now we need to get cracking on the frame repairs.

Paul Connolly suggested a few additional tasks:

• Fabricate a bolt-on fairlead to lead the coolant hoses to the desired site around the transmission. · Improve the engine drip pan as needed.
• Check with Hansen Engineering for other routine replacement items on the engine, and for items which might be associated with the hot water heater installation

Demolition, lifting the engine, and a new keel

The status today is:

• Staging was erected on deck to raise the engine from the cabin.
• All engine wiring was disconnected.
• The engine ground wire was cut.
• The exhaust elbow was rotated to clear the engine room lintel.
• The engine sea water hoses were disconnected.
• The engine has been removed forward, and then lifted to the staging above the companionway. It is resting there, supported by two timbers, and the come-along.

All of the nuts on the keel bolts were completely dezincified, so they broke apart when struck. The keel bolts are removed in the floor to frame 30. The floor keel bolts in frames 31, 32, and 33 are still stuck. The diagonal keel bolts from frame 33 have not yet been removed.

The lumber for the keel has been found and bought from Gannon and Benjamin. It was shipped to New Bedford, and retrieved from there. It has been laid out (successfully avoiding the checks), and the rabbet has been roughly cut on one side.
Additional tasks:

• Move engine to the floor, so it can be cleaned away from the boat.
• Scale engine
• Paint engine
• Replace engine mounts
• Replace engine temperature sender
• Replace engine coolant output venturi
• Connect engine coolant hoses for the water heater.
• Replace engine seawater impeller
• Change engine transmission oil
• Align engine
• Clean and paint bilges beneath engine
• Drill engine bilge access holes
• Reinstall engine.
• Test engine
• Fill under-engine frame notches with pitch
• Fill all the keel bolt pockets with roofing tar or grease
• Install emergency bilge pump

More demolition

It has became clear that the only way to remove the keel bolts under the engine is to remove it from the boat. The extraction is complicated by its mass and its size, but it can pass through the companionway.