Day 21

Goose Creek, NC

Very lovely here, quiet, wild, just the occasional boat passing by.  We got down and dirty yesterday afternoon and changed the oil and and all the filters, what a mess.  The 8/71 takes 8 gallons of oil, one oil filter and three fuel filters, and all that has to be changed out every 100 hours of running time.  It also needs about one gallon added to it for every 15 hours, some of which just gets splattered around the engine room.  One plus is there is no rust in the engine room, nada, zilch. Today we lay about and sometime go down there and clean up.  Guys I talk to that ran fishing operations with five boats going all the time tell me the 71 series Detroit Diesels are the best, will last forever, and cannot be killed.  We'll see.