SV Ramble On | Removing the Perkins

After procrastinating for a season or so, we finally removed the Perkins 4-108 diesel from the boat. I'm not really sure why we waited so long, but it was easier than we thought and it went surprisingly smoothly.

00:28 Intro
01:54 The Chain Hoist
02:20 Setting up the straps
02:55 Trying to loosen the flywheel
04:06 Setting up the lifting chain
05:30 Succeeding in loosening the flywheel
06:41 Explaining the hoist, straps and lines setup
07:05 Hoisting the Perkins
09:28 Hoisting the transmission
10:22 How we stabilized the boat with halyards

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Artlist Music:
Opening Music: Siberian Summer by Sunny Fruit
Waste Our Time by Jane and the Boy

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I’m Jeni and he’s Rich. We’re really just a couple of average Joes. In a nutshell we met and married in our early 20s; I graduated from college in my late 20s; adopted two cats and a dog in the late 90s; sold a house and bought a new house in our mid 30s; then sold the new house and moved onto a sailboat in our early 40s. In between all that we had a bunch of fun like camping, scuba diving, watching hockey games (Go Red Wings!), concerts, traveling, spear fishing, restoring a 1963 Chevy II Nova; spending time with family and friends. A few years ago we decided to lay off all the fun-having to fix up this old boat. We figure if we put our noses to the grindstone for a few years, we’ll be able to travel for a few years and do all the fun things we’ve missed.