We'd filed for an extension since we'd be in the Bahamas on Tax Day. Our refunds will just about pay for the bottom job plus a dinner out. It must have made an impression, because they bought a boat about a month ago and got a slip in another part of the Herrington Harbour marina complex. It's an older boat that hadn't been used for six years before they bought it. The engine started once for the survey and once for the sea trial and hasn't started since.
Britt likes a challenge.
Paul and Erin showed up on Saturday morning, and he worked on their boat for much of the weekend. He ripped out all the corroded tangles of wiring and replaced them with neat bundles of marine-grade connections, then ran meters across every bit of the engine's electrics like a doctor with a stethoscope. So far he's found that the battery selector switch is corroded, that the starter isn't working right, and that the solenoid relay is having problems. But then the engine still doesn't start, and he finds something else. At least it's a good education for us on diesel repair.