Honey, there's an engine in the salon...

By the end of the day on Thursday, there was an engine sitting in the middle of the salon. Fortunately, we had been off babysitting our grandkids while the 800 pound engine block was lifted out of the engine room and slid aft into the salon. At this stage the block is so heavy partly because it still has the pistons, crankshaft, etc. The engine will ultimately be slid a little further aft toward the salon door in the background. Then the boat will be taken to a local shipyard where a crane with a horizontal boom will reach in through the salon door and (gently) remove the engine.

The next picture shows the pipe A-frame and winch that were used to lift the engine up and out of the engine room. At the bottom ot the picture you can barely see the engine still in place down in the engine room. The process of stripping down the engine ( removal of transmission, starter, etc) and lifting it out to where it can be removed has already taken nearly two days. The engine still has to go to the machine shop to have the cylinders bored out (i.e. made "round" again), and then the whole process has to be reversed to replace the engine. As the saying goes, "time is money"...