Bear

We are in a little bit more of a hurry now to get out of Demopolis because Ray got a job to build a house in Murphy!  With the boat yard help slower than molasses, we decided to take the engines out of the boat just like we did the generator.

Doesn't an engine block look pretty on a light colored carpet on the salon floor?  You really can't see how much of a mess it did make.  It was mainly pink antifreeze that saturated the carpet in this area when we hoisted the block(s) up the stairs, not just the big oil stain you see below.  Again, it doesn't matter a whole lot as we are going to replace all of the carpet with a vinyl teak wood flooring anyway.  It's just a matter of living with it like this for now.  The entry rug covered it up nicely for now though.

We are also keeping a close eye on Spike, the cat, because when we came back in once he was sitting on this bottom step licking his lips.  We're hoping he wasn't licking up any antifreeze!

This is where Linda got nervous.  Ray decided we could just reverse the process of getting the engine block up the stairs and out the cabin door, and lower/slide it out off the back deck, down the stairs and into the pick up truck.  It turned into kind of a fiasco.  The block kind of rolled over when it got to the bottom of the steps and semi onto the swim platform.  A couple gel coat chips (couldn't bear to take a picture of those), help from the neighbor, someone telling us the boat yard has a boom (no kidding-get him over here to use it!), and Ray decided we wouldn't do it this way again.

The other engine block is now just sitting on the aft deck, along with the two transmissions that were hoisted out the same way.  Of course it's the weekend now so with the shop closed we get to walk around them for a couple days and then see when we can get anyone to get them off.  We've asked them to take the props off since we got here three weeks ago and that still isn't done.