Ship work in dry dock

These past few blogs are from early December.

With the ship out of water, all water cooled engines off, maintenance work began.

Victor, Emanuel, Paul. The large tube at the top is a 'cooler' or heat exchanger. This is where the engine coolant is cooled by seawater.

Some heavy piping was removed for cleaning and replacement. This is part of the main cooling system, the pump housing is on the right.

With the seawater valve removed for cleaning, and the exterior screens removed, you can see out of the ship from inside.

A pipe in the seawater system.

A cooler needing cleaning. Notice the clogged holes on the top half.

We left dry dock on the 20th, a few days later than planned. After the propeller blades were cleaned, they were checked for cracks. One propeller (4 on each shaft) had a critical crack and needed to be replaced. The spare (which we had on board) and broken blade were weighed and the new blade was within specs of +/- 2kg out of 2tons. With that hurdle out of the way we were ready to leave, and sail to a nearby island, Tenerife. We plan to stay in Santa Cruz, Tenerife until January 29th. Then return to Liberia.