• First drive after Volvo Penta renovation

    It was time to finalize the installation of the engine so that we could test it after our Volvo Penta renovation. We had lifted it to the correct position and we needed to connect the gearbox to the engine and the propeller shaft and connect diesel, sea water, cooling system to the boiler and some electricity to the engine before we could do a test start inside the boat. First up was to assemble the gearbox and then connect it to the shaft. The gearbox need to be inserted precisely to its correct position and we used our rig (that we used when lifting the engine into position) to get…

  • Installing our Volvo Penta engine

    It was finally time to lift our Volvo Penta engine to its correct position in the boat and start the installation, after an entire winter of doing a full renovation of the engine (read all our blog posts about the renovation HERE). But before starting the installation we had to fix a small diesel leakage in the connection between our two fuel tanks. We noticed the leakage when lifting the engine into the boat but didn’t have the time to fix it immediately. So the first thing we needed to do was to fix the connection. We had a hard time get the connections in the correct position last time, since…

  • Generator renovation

    In parallel of working with the engine, we also renovated the generator for our sailboat. The generator we have is a Zeise Liliput Multi Power. Our main focus during the winter was the engine and we just wanted to do what was necessary with the generator. As everything else on the boat, the generator had been abandoned for ten years. We suspected from the start that the heat exchanger would be quite dirty, so we removed the heat exchanger to clean it. There were no problems running the generator, so there is not much that we need to do. But what we will do is: Changing the fuel hoses Changing…

  • Lift the engine out of the boat

    We had decided to lift the engine out of the boat, so that we could do a full service of the engine, a Volvo Penta MD19, during the winter months.