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Four days out… and an engine gave out*.
Mechanical warning beepings sounded that had us all racing round the boat to determine which system was telling us to turn it off before it melted.
Those beeps are so imperious and seem to come from every direction at once. Kind of like aircraft carriers…
Sure enough – it was the port engine sounding off that had just been serviced a few days before we left Spain.
Fortunately, catamarans have two.
Nonetheless we decided to skip the excursion around Sardinia (we were hugging the Algerian Basin at this point) and head straight for a major port in Sicily about a day or so away so we could get it looked at sooner.
Some of the crew were disappointed but, although Sardinia would have been great to visit again, the Can Opener and I were okay with giving it a miss.
We just love being at sea.
–Captain Cat
(transcribed by the Can Opener)
* We had been running it to charge the batteries.
The Cruising Kitty 