Waiting for the tide with the editor

Fuel filters and fava beans

hen Graham Keating heard a ‘momentary change in the engine note’ (page 64) it brought back memories for Project Boat ’s shakedown sail. Fortunately no nausea-inducing filter change was required for us but I also felt that sinking feeling of being on a ‘windless but rolling sea’ with an engine on the blink. We’d had the engine serviced only a few weeks earlier and in actual fact it was fine (more on the ‘fault’ next month), but had it not been, Stu Davies outlines options for refurb or replacement on page 48.