Friday Aug 4th

When we ran the engine on Thursday we discovered the exhaust gasket leaked badly and the muffler leaked water like a sieve. On Friday we replaced the gaasket with one taken from an engine held by teh yard for spares and repaired the muffler with epoxy. During our test run we found we had very poor performance which we attributed to bad gas left over in the gas tank before we filled it. We attacehd our emergency tank directly to the fuel pump and acheived perfect performance. However when we got back to the dock and chut down the carburetor leaked and we had to remove it to stop the accumulation of gasoline in the pan under the engine.