Recent content by D and G

That's correct,not sure who swapped the petrols for the 2 x Perkins 4108's, but so glad they did,love my ole dirty diesels lol

She is a credit to her past owner,he had her for 10 years and did lots of upgrades. Took us an age to sort getting her moved from Chatham Marina to Cardiff Marina,just need to refit her props and was going to install the new Garmin 923xse GPS Maps plotter and just change both engine oils and...

Thanks for that, I remember seeing them when I was changing the Anodes, the previous owner did me a great favour removing and sending off the props but hate putting things back after it's been removed by another person, think it stems from when I rebuilt my cousins Suzuki GT750 engine after his...

She is a 1975 Marine Projects Pilgrim 25, so suspect originally came with AQ270 Volvo Penta petrols and matching out drives. Engines are now 2 x Perkins 4108 still matched to what I believe are the original out drives?? Drained and swapped the oil when I went to Chatham to Antifoul her and...

That makes sense now,thanks for posting, off next week to fit them and get her bum wet lol

Hi all, Happy New Year. When our boat was craned out at Chatham Marina one of the props was damaged, the previous owner kindly removed them and posted them for repair,so as I have never worked on the 2 x AQ270 out drives are the props just a push fit and you tighten the cone or is there some...

Never tried it so may have to tick it off my list,thanks for the tip

Nothing wrong with a trip down memory lane, not a fan of the Conger myself😁

Thanks for your reply Allan will check it out.

Hi all, Finally moving our boat to Cardiff Marina later this month, I fancy putting my big boy pants on and taking our boat to fish the Bristol Channel so looking for advice or any good spots/wrecks to fish without me adding our boat to the wreck list lol

They should be with Castle Marine today so fingers crossed Carwyn will do a quick repair job and I can get them re fitted. Essex Boat and Caravan are booked to move her on the 22nd November but will keep your suggestions in mind as looking at another bigger boat that is on the East Coast, why...

Thanks all for the replies/tips, finally the boating gods have worked their magic and the lost props have now turned up so sent pictures of the damaged Starboard prop to Carwyn of Castle Marine and he says he can fix it, so the previous owner is posting them via Royal Mail Special Delivery so at...

Not as easy as I thought it would be lol, but thanks for your great advice.

Thanks for a great reply, you are spot on she came originally with VP petrols so think you called it spot on. Will try the FB classic page but just want to get her back to her new home berth and try and get some trips in weather playing ball.

Hi all, If you saw my original post about getting the props repaired on our Volvo Penta AQ270 Sterndrives, well it gets worse, the original owner very kindly offered to remove and send off the props for repair to save me the near 600 mile round trip, it all went wrong when he posted them via...