Sometimes you just get lucky. Today’s plan (October 6) was to cross the North Sea from the Netherlands to the UK. We got up at 6AM for a 7AM departure. As is always the rule we started the engine to let it run for about a half hour before we left. Everything was, set, we were just about to cast off the lines when the engine stops. No strange sounds, just silence. We tried to restart, no luck. First thought was no fuel. Last night Bob had switched from fuel tank # 1 to fuel tank # 2. We thought that tank #1 was low & might not make it all the way across as it looked like we were going to have to do some motoring today due to light wind. When Bob checked the
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