After a coupe of days of tinkering by a diesel mechanic and a professional clean of the injector, we finally poked a camera through the top of the cylinder head of our generator to examine the piston. Not good! Rust everywhere meaning that our 20 year old Fischer Panda had finally bitten the dust.
As soon as we had taken the decision to scrap it, plenty of Polynesian descended to wrestle it, ever-so-gently, from its mounts in the work room and drop it into the dinghy. Shimshal is now 88kg lighter and we have arranged to pick up a 21kg, four stroke petrol replacement in Airutaki in a few weeks time.
Farewell Fischer Panda - not the best bit of kit on the boat but 20 years isn’t too bad for, what most regard as, a heap of junk!