Back in Tenerife; but with Lucia :^). We flew out from Madrid together. It was good to be aboard Compromise but on the back burner the issue of the engine had been simmering. The day before I left for Madrid I had called in a Spanish mechanic, all translated for me by my good friend, Chris. The prognosis was not good. The overheating on one of the cylinder heads was due to a blocked coolant pipe, major corrosion in one of the raw water intake bays + a faulty injector pump + the cylinder head needed replacing or re-boring. I never did determine what sized pistons where required. Conversations with both Pepe and the engineers back in London had produced the same basic advice. Get the engine replaced. People kept saying my Lister would last for ever, what they did not say is that the parts for it and the labour would just become un-economic. O.K. not quite that bad but maintaining it with only one supplyer in England looked like a problem. Reliability and cost were both issues but the deciding factor was personal. I thought it was time for a new engine. Time to say off with an arm and a leg! A Volvo MD-30 here we go. A month to wait delivery . . . unsure when I will be mobile again.