2014-02-28

A bowl full of garlic-fried rice and fava beans with slices of steamed potato and chopped carrot, a pair of barbecued sardines and a bread roll with a cup of orange juice might not be the most luxurious dinner, but after some hours of labor that's a great meal to enjoy aboard of a ship. And today I got even a white Kit-Kat for dessert. Great.

2014-02-18

Fishing is still one of the best activities to do while in a boat. At least some sort of animal protein is granted for the next meal, and it's fresh. Got sardines and a nicely-sized tuna.

2014-02-10

electronics are a pain to overcome, but it's time to do some ECM reflashings

It's still not the most comfortable job for me to reflash those electronic modules into some Citroen and Peugeot HDi engines into used vehicles to be shipped from Singapore, but it's required to clear and prevent error codes from an EGR and DPF removal to ensure they're gonna still work properly after their arrival in Suriname alongside a bunch of Corollas and even a Prius. I'd rather replace everything with some all-mechanical injection systems for increased reliability, but altough electronics might still raise some concerns regarding their reliability under extreme environmental conditions and lower quality fuels it would be an even more complicated job to take all the secondary electric functions and controls to remain operational.

But what surprised me the most is a Citroen C5 Break converted from diesel to dedicated CNG, which looks kinda stupid from a technical standpoint and would require an extensive work to be a profitable deal.