dabsolute470
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Our pearl 43 has a rusted sump and needs replacing but we cannot find a way to lift it high enough
Pearl 43 anyone lifted an engine up or out please
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Seastoke
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Normally hiab through patio window
Seastoke
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Oscar someone said a guy built scaffolding then winched up different boat though
Seastoke
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It's on one by oldgit , you learn something new every day , where are u based
PCUK
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If it's under the wheelhouse I placed blocks of wood on the side decks, scaffold poles through the windows and lifted it with a hoist. Quite easy really.
oldgit
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VP 41B in a Corniche.
The entire saloon floor was hinged, two pieces with hinges and central removable spar.
Hinges unscrewed and floor completely removed. No dismantling of anything else required.
Everything stripped off and now hanging vertically. A very bare lump of cast iron with one piston and liner missing.
Might be possible to lift engine sufficently to not have to remove much in the way a fuel/water and wiring to get only to sump ?
Recall when one of the outdrive bearings in my transom assembly crapped out due to water ingress (no no really) .
The bearing that failed could only be removed from the transom assembly from inside the boat...and guess what..
The engine then has to be shifted, just possible to lift the engine and move back without disconnecting any of the myriad bits that connect a boat to the engine and to remove the jackshaft.
That only leaves you the outer bearing which of course can only be driven out with the leg off.
When the bearing gave up it caused the inner ring to revolve on the jack shaft scoring it.
Fortunately somebody said either spend £500 quid on a new shaft or peen the thing to death, your choice.
Was still working several years later when some lucky soul bought the boat.
Sticky Fingers
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Think the Pearl 43 was an aft cabin flybridge boat. Might be very difficult to get the engines out. Ideally need someone to come along who’s actually done one.
Neil1300r
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Looks like an aft cabin flybridge from this article
Secondhand boat buyers guide: Four of the best used British yachts
Greg2
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Yes that is the type of boat - I know the boat in question.
Unless there is a removable deck/hatch in the flybridge deck it will be a case of working out if the engine can be jacked up or partially lifted in situ using scaffolding. Getting the right engineer will be key and perhaps the chap doing the boat in oldgit’s example might be an option? Knowing both locations it is worth exploring @dabsolute470
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Sticky Fingers
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Wow, that looks quite remarkably lovely! And indeed, very difficult to extract the engines, due in no short measure to the combination of the Flybridge and the aft cabin. As Greg says in the post above. Removing the engines is really completely dependent on there being provision made at build time for removable soft patches.
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Flynnbarr
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I’ve always thought what if with that style of boat…..engines or tanks and it’s going to be a ball ache.
You will have to dismantle some of the saloon…..then either a long reach hiab with a really good operator…..or an old school engineer I used to know used to drill a hole in the roof to drop a chain down for a crane then afterwards the hole got turned into a vent.
Or make friends with the engineer OG has mentioned.
Good luck with it !
You will have to dismantle some of the saloon…..then either a long reach hiab with a really good operator…..or an old school engineer I used to know used to drill a hole in the roof to drop a chain down for a crane then afterwards the hole got turned into a vent.
Or make friends with the engineer OG has mentioned.
Good luck with it !
Greg2
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Our Hardy has a removable hatch in the flybridge deck so engine removal is easy (we did it a year or two ago). Similarly Brooms have a hatch in the saloon roof. I am guessing that the Pearl doesn’t as the OP is asking for help.
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Seastoke
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Time to have sun roof fitted.
Flynnbarr
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Sign of a good boat builder if they think of the basics….most don’t think past the first owner let alone 25-30 years down the line.
Sticky Fingers
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To be fair we don’t know what provision for this the designers of the Humber / Pearl have made.
Tranona
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When I worked for Tremletts 45 years ago having a hatch in the flybridge floor was a big selling feature although the reason for fitting one was because the engines were the last thing to go in. no credit on engines - payment on delivery. Also a number of our boats went to countries like Nigeria and the Gulf States where the engines were shipped separately as it lowered duty. Classed as boat kits rather than luxury boats! Happy days!
