If you design a yacht with a skeg......

[MoodySabre]

DON'T DO IT LIKE MOODY DID

Today was the rudder off day to cure the leak up the rudder post. The skeg shoe is held on with 3/8" copper rivets. Grind/drill the heads off and knock them out. No.1 -20 mins feeling our way. Nos 2&3 - 10 mins each. No.4 an hour and a half. Have the boat lifted to withdraw the rudder stock completely. Replace two O-rings in the bottom bearing. Re-install rudder. New rivets on order.

Cost 60p for O-rings, £50 for rivets (annealed and peaned one end), £3m for an extended boat lift.

Still, also replaced heads outlet seacock which went very well with my new humungous adjustable spanner (available for hire at very reasonably rates).

A long day..........Survey, rivets and antifoul next week and back in.

 

[Athene V30]

Cost 60p for O-rings,

How much? There was a bloke on here the other day doing o rings at rock bottom prices.

 

[MoodySabre]

 

[sailorman]

DON'T DO IT LIKE MOODY DID

Today was the rudder off day to cure the leak up the rudder post. The skeg shoe is held on with 3/8" copper rivets. Grind/drill the heads off and knock them out. No.1 -20 mins feeling our way. Nos 2&3 - 10 mins each. No.4 an hour and a half. Have the boat lifted to withdraw the rudder stock completely. Replace two O-rings in the bottom bearing. Re-install rudder. New rivets on order.

Cost 60p for O-rings, £50 for rivets (annealed and peaned one end), £3m for an extended boat lift.

Still, also replaced heads outlet seacock which went very well with my new humungous adjustable spanner (available for hire at very reasonably rates).

A long day..........Survey, rivets and antifoul next week and back in.

Wot you need my boy is a spade rudder

 

[Bru]

How much? There was a bloke on here the other day doing o rings at rock bottom prices.

I meet a fella last weekend with boxes of the things in a locker on his boat

 

[Marmalade]

DON'T DO IT LIKE MOODY DID

Today was the rudder off day to cure the leak up the rudder post. The skeg shoe is held on with 3/8" copper rivets. Grind/drill the heads off and knock them out. No.1 -20 mins feeling our way. Nos 2&3 - 10 mins each. No.4 an hour and a half. Have the boat lifted to withdraw the rudder stock completely. Replace two O-rings in the bottom bearing. Re-install rudder. New rivets on order.

Cost 60p for O-rings, £50 for rivets (annealed and peaned one end), £3m for an extended boat lift.

Still, also replaced heads outlet seacock which went very well with my new humungous adjustable spanner (available for hire at very reasonably rates).

A long day..........Survey, rivets and antifoul next week and back in.

3 million quid????

 

[MoodySabre]

3 million quid????

Well it always feels like a lot! Hopefully the yard boys will be kind to me when they fill in the job sheet.

The point was that such a cheap item requires a relatively huge amount of time and effort to replace. Not clever design IMO.

 

[tillergirl]

Strange really. You're kept afloat by an 'O' ring and some jubilee clips. I'm kept afloat by some cotton, putty and jubilee clips. Makes a dug out canoe seem pretty clever.....

 

[sailorman]

Strange really. You're kept afloat by an 'O' ring and some jubilee clips. I'm kept afloat by some cotton, putty and jubilee clips. Makes a dug out canoe seem pretty clever.....

we have a large bronze bearing & a stuffing box for out spade rudder

 

[MoodySabre]

No jubileee clips - the O-rings are in grooves inside the lower polyacetal bearing - hence the need to remove the rudder stock to get to them.

O-rings - the modern man's cotton and putty

Trust Sailorman to have a stuffing box

 

[tillergirl]

I bet you do, I meant on all your seacocks.

 

[MoodySabre]

I bet you do, I meant on all your seacocks.

Ah yes. I bought 36 when I installed a holding tank. You can get HiGrips quite cheap by the box