Thursday 10 October Food and frustration

Yosi had arranged a car and driver to take us and Geramar to the Borneo Hypermarket in he big town. It's super new, super clean and has foreign products on the shelves. We like it. With food gathered we planned to leave Kumai on the outgoing afternoon tide.

Planned is the key word. Everything was stowed, engine on and David went forward lift anchor and the engine juddered to a halt. The same issue we had in Medana Bay and on the way here a few days ago. On both those times replacing a fuel filter and bleeding the system cured it although David spend many hours going through the engine looking for other causes as the diesel didn't seem to be dirty.

This time it seems the problem is something bigger. David worked in the hot engine room, sweat pouring off him all afternoon and still he didn't find the definitive answer to our problem which is frustrating. We may have a fix which will get us to the next place and plan to leave at dawn tomorrow for a 270 mile trip west to Belitung island.