Monday, Tuesday and Half of Wednesday this week was spent getting the starboard side bilges cleaned, prepped, and painted so that we could get the last engine onboard and move the ship back. We had to muck all of the solid waste and oil out of the bilges then power wash them heavily. We then had to grind and sand the surfaces of all of the cracked loose paint. We then applied a two-part epoxy based bilge paint that made the bilges and engine room look 100x better than they did. 

We were at a stand still with the port side engine as we had to wait for an order of stainless washers to come in for the engine mounts. Once they came in on Wednesday, we finished buttoning those up and moved the engine into place securing it to the mounts ready for the vibration and alignment contractors to align the motor and the shaft. 

On Thursday we started putting parts back on the port side engine, the after cooler, the exhaust manifold, oil cooler, coolant reservoir, and heat exchanger. This is the engine all in place with all of the parts on it. On Friday, Alesha and I worked for Denis going in the tween decks to inspect the RoxTec Boxes that kept a watertight seal from the tween deck between the engine room pontoons and the forward tween deck. These RoxTec Boxes are meant to be taken apart and have adjustable squares that allow for different size wires to go through them. However after trying to get these Rox Boxes out all day. Struggling in cramped spaces with screwdrivers, wedges, hammers, knives all day, we still weren’t able to get the Rox Box out. So, we decided to call it after a long, hard week and go swim in the ocean. Also, to get the fiberglass stuck in my back from crawling in and out of the tween deck space out.