Mr Beta arrived back on 17 July yippee. It was an effort, I worked so hard, that I walked off and left Kevin to it (Seahorse Power, Neiafu, Vava’u, Tonga – a great bloke and mechanic) once we had got the motor (Mr Beta) back into the cabin. Kevin knows what he is doing and with his offsider had all the help he needed. I take the view that he (and other skilled tradesmen – boat builders etc) know much more about what they are doing than I and it is best to leave them to it. I asked Steve, the boatbuilder in Whangarei, and he said he met two types - those that left him to it (like me) and those that stayed and watched everything. Kevin also checked out the installation and identified three
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