My Summer, 2017 Adventure
An irregular sound, a vibration untuned to the sum of your experience: this one was a momentary drop in RPM… 25, maybe 50 rpm. I bumped the throttle, right? Then it happened again, and denial shades into anxiety.
The opening hours of a 6 week cruise: Seattle, up the inside passage, over the top of Vancouver Island and a leisurely meandering through the inlets that indent the west side. But this journey ended just as it began.
A series of intricate diagnostic rationalizations, fuel filter and impeller changes availed us not at all. Lots of oil gone missing! Limping into Kingston Harbor, Ripple’s Yanmar 1GM10 turned the last of some 300,000,000 revolutions in my service.
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