I took apart the tilt and trim assembly and rebuilt everything inside and out. It took a while for the first one because I was still learning. The next one was very easy. I can’t believe how much boat mechanics charge to do this. 
Then I changed the anodes. Anodes protect the engines internal water passages from corrosion. Basically these zincs are made to corrode first before the motor corrodes. In this case, the anode worked so hard that it corroded and fell off inside the motor. 
See it in there? I had to dig it out and luckily it came out. A lot of boaters don’t know about internal anodes so a few change it regularly. They call this the silent killer. It’s like cancer. 
I replaced all 6 anodes so the cancer is gone for now. 
This morning, I had one of the biggest challenges of my boating life. I was parked really far up a dead end street. The street was too narrow to turn my boat around so I had to reverse it for a long 1km out of that street. It was extremely hard and very crazy!!! 
Driving a big trailer like this takes up the entire lane. There were many times I scared a lot of drivers. I was just looking back and admiring the shine. Haha. 
Mayuki is back home where she belongs. I’m so excited! After this, I had to take the trailer back to Waianae. That was another crazy drive!
