Engine Trouble

We were planning for an evening departure from Matuku for an overnighter west to Kadavu. It was just us and Nautilus leaving as the others had decided to stay another night or two. Nautilus weighed anchor first and was heading toward the pass when we had everything ready, and I went to start the engines. The port engine started up no problem, but the starboard engine didn’t even flinch. We radioed Nautilus and they started heading back while we went into hyper trouble shooting mode. First off, we started the generator in case it was a battery issue. Then Tim got in the engine compartment and started disconnecting and reconnecting things. After about 7-8 minutes of this the engine finally started, so we radioed Nautilus again and told them the abort was aborted, so once again they headed out the pass. Apparently, we took a little long actually getting out of there once we got the engine started, because Nautilus radioed worried that we weren’t coming, but realizing that it was getting dark they would need to go on without us. Not to worry, we got out of there just as the last rays of sun were disappearing and we were off.