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After a pleasant if not somewhat cool summer sailing season fall has finally arrived.  We likely will have time for a few more short trips before we winterize again.  Most of our time this summer was spent catching up on maintenance, as in refinishing all of our brightwork.  No small task, in fact, we spent so much time standing, that is using power tools, that the marina lady finally came over and asked us to give it a break.  The good news is that everything looks fantastic.  We also learned the importance of changing diesel oil filters.  One evening sailing in Elliott Bay as we “her back towards Shilshole I noticed that that ourRPM was steadily dropping off.  Normally we cruised about 2400 RPM, but with the throttle wide open we are maxed out at 2000 then 1900, 1800, 170o.  So much for forgetting to change fuel filters.  The engine runs like a charm now.

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