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Corti Creare
OCC members, Fred and Sandy onboard their catamaran Dakota Dream, were anchored at Antigua when this happened to their generator. It seems someone forgot to turn off the hot-wired raw water pump for their Northern Lights M673, 6 kw generator when they left the boat for Happy Hour. Upon returning to their boat, they realized the problem and shut down the still running raw water pump, too late. The generator was hydro-locked. This is what happens when an injector is removed to get raw water out of the cylinders. Ouch! Diesel and salt water sprays everywhere!!!
We have hundreds if not thousands of video clips and when we started going through them to make our first videos for you tube, the rest of the family had a good chuckle as I started nearly every video with 'So here we are'. I have to say I was a bit embarrassed about it as I was so consistent in doing it but I have accepted my new name, mainly as I have no choice....! So this video is a short compilation of some examples. Enjoy.