dmarler
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First time out this season, I lost my log impeller - the little paddle wheel disappeared when one of the jaws holding it snapped across the little axle hole. The log is a Plastimo Minilog (1986)and gives/gave a distance reading at the chart table and a speed reading on a Shark repeater in the cockpit. The whole assemblage was getting a little tired and perhaps due for replacement not too much further down the road anyway, but the diameter of the sender - if that is the correct term for the thing that goes down the hole, with the impeller on the end of it - is only 3cm. It now appears that virtually everything on the market these days is bigger - Airmar who do many of the impellers have a 2" or 5.2cm standard. So early in the season I don't want to haul out again for the laborious and expensive process of having a new bigger hole cut. Even if I found a 3cm sender to fit the hole, there could be a problem with the thread for the screw cap that keeps the whole show watertight. One answer might be to go at least temporarily for a trailing log or just rely on the GPS...but I still hope that some wise fellow-yottie out there can think of a solution or source of supply which would fit elegantly with the set-up that I have. Any ideas, any one?