Day 63 - Moorehead City

Day 63 - Oct. 18

The wahoo was fabulous.  I won't say it's as good as haddock ( I have to stay true to my roots), but it was very good.  Greg pan fried it in butter and lemon and teamed it up with Spanish rice and green beans.  A very good supper.  The fish is a firm white fish, not as flaky as haddock and not a strong flavour, but we will definitely buy it again.
Our mechanic arrived this morning.  A very nice British gentleman by the name of Derrick.  We were putting all our hope on the heat exchanger, but once off, it appears to be very clean.  Derrick flushed it, just to be sure.  In the meantime, he checked the water flow from the intake valve.  The flow was much less then to be expected and trailed it back to find mismatched hoses. OMG!  I think they found it.  They just showed me the fitting for the hose.  A picture is attached.  Can you make out the opening through the fitting?  Good for you if you can.  It's almost entirely blocked.  Oh my, I hope that was the answer.  It's too late to get everything back together and leave today.  We'll know in a few hours after we leave here tomorrow.   I feel like celebrating.  If this isn't the fix, we don't know where else to look.  It means paying for another day on the dock, but the bright side... I can take another shower tonight
George, thank you for the suggestion on the thermostat.  That was going to be our next check, but the nature of the overheating didn't suggest that was the problem.  The temperature would decrease when we throttled down, which we wouldn't expect if the thermostat was staying closed.