May 17th 2019
Boat works today. The engine sounded a bit ‘raw’ during our nightly passage and since we want to leave tomorrow we had to check what was causing the sound. We figured it probably has to do something with oil, a car also sounds a bit hoarse if it doesn’t have enough oil anymore. After checking all the oil related parts the last item seemed to be the culprit. It’s always the last one, isn’t it? The cover for the transmission oil inlet got a bit unscrewed, thus hence we lost some oil.
Fortunately since our crash course Diesel engines we now know that there even is an oil level to be checked at the transmission. We wouldn’t have known it otherwise. So we refilled the oil, started the engine and tried switching from forward to reverse. It seems to sound a bit better.
We also checked the prop with our underwater camera, because something could be wrapped around it. Last time we went through Rotterdam, another busy city, we had a whole canvas shopping bag entangled in our prop. But this time it was absolutely clean. No need to dive today fortunately.
All preparations done, we are ready to leave.