Almost Ready for Removal

It may not look like much, but the past two days have been very productive.  First thing yesterday morning Linda found Ray once again fixing the steps up to the boat.  She was afraid he read the blog, but he said they still weren't right.  So here they are with the correct rise on each step.  You can also see engine parts laying around, these are from the starboard side and those jugs are full of antifreeze, but there's still more in the bilge.  Ray estimates there had to be four to five gallons in each engine.

More engine parts.  The one's under the boat are from the port side.  If you notice in the bottom right corner, that is a mixing elbow off of the exhaust manifold.  Originally Ray planned on taking them off in one piece until the first set on the port side just about went through the floor when he took the last bolt out, and then he couldn't hardly pick them up.  He estimates that just that mixing elbow weighs about 50 pounds without the exhaust manifold.  I wanted to get a comparison photo of the mixing elbow from the new engines, and will try to do that later, but the new ones are about a tenth of the size and weight.

Here are all of the panels off of the generator, in which Linda did a majority of the disassembling.

With all of this, the generator and both engines are ready to be taken out of the boat except for the engines not being disconnected from the prop shafts yet.