| Before the new aluminum tank could be made, we felt it necessary to wait until the company�s representative returned to Marmaris the following week and acknowledge his error in order to receive our full refund. During this waiting period we went forward with our boat haulout period as planned. We spent 12 days in the boatyard. Our two major jobs were putting on new bottom paint and replacing the cutlass bearing. As the cutlass bearing supports the engine shaft as it goes through the hull, it�s almost impossible to obtain the correct inside measurement of the bearing until the boat is actually out of the water. We brought one back from Florida, but it was not the correct size. Phil tried to find one in Turkey, but that failed. Finally, searching online, he obtained the correct size cutlass bearing from a company in the States. It arrived via DHL a couple of days later. During our haulout period, Phil hired a local worker to help him with the sanding and polishing, and as we had the new aluminum tank fabricated locally, we received it on April 29, the day we went back into the water. |
