Fiji.

Repair marina! Still!

Crane on shore. Not shown. It will be here again in a day or two to drop in the new one. So out she comes.

It had developed several salt water leaks over the years. This one included leaking exhaust fumes. Rotted out the starter and was getting to the energizer coils. What you cannot see from this picture is that when mounted in the hull you have to remove the top of the sound enclosure and crawl over the top of the engine to even see this backside of the gen set. Really tight installation.

But when they are not working pretty hard fixing boats they like to burn stuff. The Fijians. They burn cane fields, hill sides, trash dumps, you name it. If it can burn they burn it. As a result there are very smoggy days here. In spite of it being an islands in the trade wind belt. Scratchy throats and itchy eyes for Vivo.

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Just another day in Latoka. Right at the edge of town. Up she goes.

All for now.

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