Hi guys,

I am on vacation at the moment, and after my 1st day away from home, my boat captain calls me and tells me that he was out fishing, one of the engines started "wining" he came in and shut it down, and it refused to restart. He believes that he smelt something burning.....I have no knowledge on the mechanics of starting the engine....is this the starting motor? solenoid? (he did not mention if any warning horns came on, but I did not ask him either, and I think he would have mentioned it)

as I said, I am not in Barbados at the moment so can't do diagnostics on the engine, but would appreciate any suggestions I can get as to likely causes.

For the moment he is using 1 engine to haul fish traps and troll close to home but I would like to rectify the problem as quickly as possible to minimize the stress on the working engine.

thx...