I spent yesterday tryinjg to sort out a lazzerette that kept taking in water, finally tracked it down to the fact that the trim tab rams had been "fitted" through the hull not with bolts but self tapping screws!!!
It got me thinking about the worst bodge/temporary repair I had ever done which was on my fathers boat about a hundred miles out from Corfu, we lost the engine because the bleed screw on the fuel lift pump sheared. After much swearing and head scratching I mixed up some International Interfill (two part epoxy filler) and slapped a big dollop over the hole, waited an hour for it to go off and then tried the engine, she fired up first time!! So we carried on to Messina vowing to get a replacement pump as soon as possible. When we finally sold the yacht six years later it was still there!
So I feel better for having confessed, anybody else got something to come clean about?
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It got me thinking about the worst bodge/temporary repair I had ever done which was on my fathers boat about a hundred miles out from Corfu, we lost the engine because the bleed screw on the fuel lift pump sheared. After much swearing and head scratching I mixed up some International Interfill (two part epoxy filler) and slapped a big dollop over the hole, waited an hour for it to go off and then tried the engine, she fired up first time!! So we carried on to Messina vowing to get a replacement pump as soon as possible. When we finally sold the yacht six years later it was still there!
So I feel better for having confessed, anybody else got something to come clean about?
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