demonboy
Well-Known Member
The electricians are back and clearly keen to finish the job now. It's a Sunday and they've been in all day. To help them understand what I was after I used pvb's basic wiring diagram which he kindly sent over last year when I was confusing myself over my charging circuit. If you think it will be useful please thank him, it certainly helped us clarify the basic set-up (you won't be able to PM him though cos his inbox is full!).
Finally took delivery of the white butyl tape. It's so much prettier than the black stuff, but this time we covered the entire underside of the genoa track in it, as well as the bolts of course. Here's one of the deck fittings being prepared:
And this is it bedded in but not trimmed...
We installed the torlon cutlass bearing, as well as the Maxprop, which has had two grease nipples tapped.
Our shaft went back in ok, unlike Phil of 'Nom De Plume' whose 50-odd ft fin-keeled boat bowed at the stern because a) it hadn't been supported and b) he left a whole load of tins of antifoul in his lazarette. He's spent the last month jacking up the stern in the hope it will lift the back end up but the shaft was misaligned by 11mm. In the end he removed his new cutlass bearing and made another one that had a bit of 'sag' in the middle to allow the shaft to align. He's in the water now and the plan is to let the boat find its shape again and return once more to refit the new bearing. Bit of a nightmare and not a problem I've come across before, but it's certainly an argument for making sure your boat is propped up correctly.
Short video clip this week as the workers were off for Eid until Thursday: http://followtheboat.com/2014/10/12/esper-refit-36/
Finally took delivery of the white butyl tape. It's so much prettier than the black stuff, but this time we covered the entire underside of the genoa track in it, as well as the bolts of course. Here's one of the deck fittings being prepared:
And this is it bedded in but not trimmed...
We installed the torlon cutlass bearing, as well as the Maxprop, which has had two grease nipples tapped.
Our shaft went back in ok, unlike Phil of 'Nom De Plume' whose 50-odd ft fin-keeled boat bowed at the stern because a) it hadn't been supported and b) he left a whole load of tins of antifoul in his lazarette. He's spent the last month jacking up the stern in the hope it will lift the back end up but the shaft was misaligned by 11mm. In the end he removed his new cutlass bearing and made another one that had a bit of 'sag' in the middle to allow the shaft to align. He's in the water now and the plan is to let the boat find its shape again and return once more to refit the new bearing. Bit of a nightmare and not a problem I've come across before, but it's certainly an argument for making sure your boat is propped up correctly.
Short video clip this week as the workers were off for Eid until Thursday: http://followtheboat.com/2014/10/12/esper-refit-36/