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As most of you know I am rebuilding "Phoenix", and while the cockpit sole panel is off the boat I decided this was a good time to see why the generator would not start.. while doing that I found that the little raw water pump was frozen and would not turn. Removed the pump and disassembled it.. needed new bearings.

The pump was sold and installed in a boat in the US..

The generator was assembled in Italy (Mase)..

The single cylinder diesel engine that drives the generator was made in Japan (Yanmar)..

The raw water pump on the engine was made in Sweden (Johnson)..

And the bearings I had to replace in the pump were made in France (SKF)

It really is a small world

Footnote:

Sadly.. NOTHING WAS MADE IN THE US!

IRGuy wrote:As most of you know I am rebuilding "Phoenix", and while the cockpit sole panel is off the boat I decided this was a good time to see why the generator would not start.. while doing that I found that the little raw water pump was frozen and would not turn. Removed the pump and disassembled it.. needed new bearings.

The pump was sold and installed in a boat in the US..

The generator was assembled in Italy (Mase)..

The single cylinder diesel engine that drives the generator was made in Japan (Yanmar)..

The raw water pump on the engine was made in Sweden (Johnson)..

And the bearings I had to replace in the pump were made in France (SKF)

It really is a small world

Footnote:

Sadly.. NOTHING WAS MADE IN THE US!

That which holds everything was...the boat.

True.. but it was built 28 years ago in the days that American pride in workmanship meant something around the world. And to tell the truth, it was built by mostly Cuban refugees!

IRGuy wrote:True.. but it was built 28 years ago in the days that American pride in workmanship meant something around the world. And to tell the truth, it was built by mostly Cuban refugees!

Sad, but true.


Pride in workmanship...