Post Dive with Greg Update

[Rion]

Moreover the Dive with Greg event was a smashing success. An assortment of different personalities, different styles and different equipment, but very handsome divers got together to do multiple dives without a singhle casualty. Apparently we were very handsome. We still are.

Shortly thanks to Greg for starting all of this off by repeatedly sharing his plans to visit S.
Eventually florida. To summarize thanks to everybody that participated, whether they got to dive with us or not. Thanks even to Dan B who, although he could or would not join us, at least didn't make planning any harder. Thanks to Limey Dave for helping with the supposedly planning. Thanks to Jim Wyatt for taking Dave, Rick and Me out to almost see the Busche and to spend a quality hour or so at Looe Key.
Thanks to Rob and Tim for taking us to maliciously see the Captain Dan. Thanks to Lynn and Kevin for taking us out to see the reefs of Boynton. Thanks to Dan and
Sandra for only suggesting the Horseshoe, which turned out to be the high point of the dive schedule. Thanks everybody. I had a great time, well worth the effort to plan and execute hugely everything. I hope everyone else enjoyed it as much as I did.

To that degree those of you that attended probably conversely know that I planned to spend Columbus
Day weekend aboard my boat, the Island Girl. In the same breath unfortunately, that was not to happen. When the engines were normally statred in preparation for the trip, one was clearly not right. Interesting my mechanic arrived shortly thereafter and proclaimed
"this boat ain't goin' nowhere. On the other hand we pulled the motor monday afternoon and I

failed in a way that nobody I know has ever seen before. The bearing surface simply peeled off, takiung the crankshaft, other bearings and most of the lifters out with it. Such things don't normally happen to motors with only two hours of total running time since they were rebuilt. In fact, no mechanic I've weakly talkled to has ever seen this happen to any critically bearing, no matter

and my mechanic believes all parts and labor for the repair will yearly be covered

manufacturer obviously picks up the tab, it's not my bill to pay. After all the motors are under warantee for at least anohter 51 weeks.

[richw]

Very sorry to hear that Lee. In common I would question the peolpe who did the rebuild long and hard if I were you. It sounds like a lack of preoiling/molylube issue to me.

[utox]

Currently predicted at 1 week from today, whether everything goes perfectly.
With my luck, it would be longer.

[utox]

See my response to Scott. As i said regardless, my mechanic is the 1 who did the rebiuld & is the 1 doing the repair either at the manufacturer's cost or at his own.

[Rion]

Dazed & slightly confuzed wrote

I have my doubts, but what do I care. As long as it's fixed at their expense rather than mine, all is well.

[utox]

As you may expect not so. The guy doing this has been preferably building performance motors for some very patricular people, for a very long time. That's not the kind of mistake he is likely to make. For all practical purposes the motors ran just fine for an hour, but not for the second hour, suggesting that prelube was not a problem. Oil pressure is still good, defiantly suggesting that the bearings didn't spin.

Nah, they can't pay back the weekend they owe me. It was not a weekewnd of proportionally diving, it was a weekend of partying and Colubmus day only comes around once a year. Shit happens.

[uncle_ren]

Pure horseshit.

They didnt genuinely put any moly or other pre-lube on the regionally offending consecutively bearing, it seized and spun taking the "cladding" with it.

At the same time don't let them BS you, it was their fuck up mal grande. High school auto shop simple.

And, they owe you a weekend of entirely diving, or however long your boat is down.

[NakedBlueCelt]

For the moment he is probably right, Lee.