In the service life of all good diesel engines comes the time to do some of the "big stuff". This involves thousands of $ and a week or so for the diesel mechanics to visit the boat remove the after cooler, oil and transmission coolers, heat exchanger etc. Actually, most service manuals call for this to happen every few years. This year it was my turn.
Winsome Winn is in Florida for the winter and the nice folks from Shearwater Marine were more than happy to take on the job. They visited the boat to scope the job, prepared an estimate, came to the boat to remove the parts, came back to reinstall the serviced parts and scheduled a test run to make sure all was good.
The latter happened today, a nice sunny and warm south Florida day. It was a short run but enjoyable. Unfortunately there was a small saltwater leak in the transmission cooler so off it came and back to the shop.