125. Removing the narrowboat engine so I can de-rust and paint the bilge

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In October last year I headed along the North Oxford canal to Hillmorton Marina where they have a little dockside crane, suitable to lift an engine out of a boat.
This I then did (OK, Colin the engineer actually did it) and over the course of the next week I scrubbed out a load of muck and rust from the engine bilge, treated it with Vactan and then primed and painted it before getting the engine put back in.
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