Bad week

[Matthewb]

It's been a trying week!

Sunday, seacock starts to leak, panic, get boat lifted Monday 8am, new seacock fitted. Great, we're back in business.
Yesterday I have trainer booked for the day. Port Supercharger gives up the ghost, starboard engine overrevs and provides some but little thrust.

Thanks to a forumite (RDL) I traced the supercharger fault to a disconnected electrical connection - 30 secs, problem solved. Mechanic comes to look at starboard engine - agrees there's a problem, either props spinning on the shaft or cone clutch worn. Guess what - I need her lifted out AGAIN.

Urggggggh!

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[Talbot]

Last year someone on the "For sale" forum was selling a crane, sounds like it would have been a good investment /forums/images/icons/smile.gif

seriously - hope this is the last problem.

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[omega2]

I had a tremlett with outdrives once, i called it yo-yo.

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[omega2]

I had a tremlett with outdrives once, i called it yo-yo.

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[[2068]]

Hi Matt,

It will get better, it just sounds as if you are flushing out the dormant problems one by one. I'd be very surprised if the props were spinning on their shafts - much more likely to be something amiss with the shift mechanism or clutch cones. One test is to see if you get substantial thrust in reverse...

If you wanted a laugh, you should have seen me trying to berth on Sunday when the forecast was "decreasing 3". It was more like "increasing 6", and Frank Spencer/Norman Wisdom/Lee Evans could all have done better.

dave.

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