ENVOY MAINTENANCE IN GOUVIA MARINA

Envoy is in Lefkas Marina for the northern hemisphere winter and we are home in New Zealand.

Back to mid-October. After Charles departs we stay for a few days at Gouvia Marina to take advantage of its excellent technical infrastructure and technicians who've worked on Envoy before, as some maintenance is needed.

TECHNICAL
-Our washing machine's water discharge pump has not been working for a few weeks and we've been using the machine by siphoning the water out. Two technicians from Miel examine it finding that the pump's AC wire has broken away from the very fine diameter output wire from the motor (as we thought). They remove the pump and motor from the machine to Envoy's cockpit where there's plenty of space to solder the wires and then secure them physically, which was not possible to do in-situ with the confined space.

Our washing machine is hard to access in its cavity half way up stairs to guest cabin

With the pump removed it's more easily serviced

-One of our two independent air conditioners has a fault with its 120V seawater cooling pump. It's not receiving AC power from the air conditioner's control unit. Angelos finds that a TRIAC (a three terminal semiconductor device) has failed, replaces it with a heavier duty version and all is well.
This is after two technicians in Crete spent time on it and said it couldn't be fixed.
-Our watermaker has a minute water leak from the high pressure hose going into the membrane. Angelos says this is common fault and supplied a new hose. He was reluctant to test it in the dirty water of the marina so we test it a few days later finding a new slight leak in a different place. By now we are three hours cruising time from the marina so in consultation with Angelos decide to leave it for him to look at when we pass through Corfu next May. This course of action has the added benefit that the very competent Angelos can check out the whole water maker system for us at the start of the season.

Ever-cheerful watermaker and aircon expert Angelos

-The "Whale" 12V pump that empties our below-waterline main head's sink has failed. On removal it's beyond economical repair and replaced with an identical new one.
-The forward head's holding tank level indicator is not working. It seems the sender float unit is stuck even though it was removed and cleaned in May. Of course this doesn't stop the head from being used. We decide to leave this until there is some need to remove the head for service, then locate the exact position of the sender and drill a whole through the head's floor large enough to extract and clean the sender without difficulty in future as required.
-Our trumpet air horn is not working. We removed the air compressor and it has rusted due to water ingress, which the technician says is a common problem. We virtually never use the horn and in any case have a separate aerosol-powered one so decide to leave this for Sailand to try and fix during winter in Lefkas.
-Our domestic fresh water supply passes through two filters. One of the filter housings is leaking and we've been reluctant to remove it in case it breaks completely and compromises our fresh water supply. After consultation with Angelos we decide to leave this for replacement during winter.