March 24, 2010. Here is the engine as we pulled her out of Passage in the Spring of 2000.

This was easier to pull out than we imagined

This is a copy of the invoice from Dale Johnson at Johnson Marine, Mystic, CT for the work he did on Passage's Palmer 27 in 2000. That engine was running before we did this work but we wanted it fully checked out. There's 10 years of inflation to be considered, but note that $225 of this was for a new ss prop shaft and a used prop. Dale bench ran this motor for us before we left the shop. I spoke to Dale a few months ago and he still does maintenance work on Palmer 27s - mostly on location - customer boats. Note - a small but important point - these engines run on leaded gas, you need to use a lead additive which comes in a liquid form.

	We are looking for an 'electronic copy of the following report put together by son Mike. Until we find it below is a scanned copy of my hard copy. Mike refers to a "Passage Book" in the text below. He kept a Meade Composition note book (remember those?) with sketches, notes, etc., of this and other Passage projects, which has and will prove invaluable.

For those of you who are wondering, Passage's engine currently sits on a bench liberally coated with WD40, WD40 soaked rags at her intakes, and wrapped with a tarp. Every so often I pull the rope start cord to turn over the internal moving parts. I just took these picture.

She waits...

Feeling sorry for her, I uncovered her and pulled her rope. I heard that compression 'pop' and I knew she was happy.

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