The other boat...

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Zach
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The other boat...

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I've asked question about how to fix her, and talked about her enough... So... on with the pictures!

http://83footernoel.blogspot.com/

My Dad bought her a few years back, and I've been helping to put her back together...

Zach
-Wow, that web address sure is easy to read. (Grin)
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Post by Rachel »

Wow, what a history! And relatively few gaps in your timeline of her.

Now I see that Pylasteki's renovation is just child's play for you, Zach :D

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Wow thats really cool!

We have a 1942 110ft WWII Navy Subchaser in our yard right now.
We did a complete hull refasten (16000+ fasteners!) new transom, running gear, paint deckwork etc.
The boat is far from finished, but there are a lot of neat paralells to your project.

Thanks for sharing!
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Thanks guys! She is a really cool boat.

Zachary,

(Good name... mines got the H too.)

I wandered through a 110 footer down in Daytona Beach a few years back. Impressive the interior volume in those things! Does the one you are working on have those funky V-drive/bevel drives with the engine spun around over the shafts?

Rachel,

Childs play... nah! Pylasteki is a different kind of beast. A lot smaller fittings and what not... haven't found a use for a 4 foot long pipe wrench or pry bar yet! But then again, I haven't had both my arms stuck when working on something in Noel like adjusting the stuffing box through a 6 inch deck plate on Pylasteki. Scars have faded... grin!

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Zach wrote:But then again, I haven't had both my arms stuck when working on something in Noel like adjusting the stuffing box through a 6 inch deck plate on Pylasteki. Scars have faded... grin! Zach
At least the physical ones have ;)
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Rachel,

Thanks for the belly laugh for today... Hehehee....

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Zach wrote: Zachary,
(Good name... mines got the H too.)
The only way to spell it!
Zach wrote: I wandered through a 110 footer down in Daytona Beach a few years back. Impressive the interior volume in those things! Does the one you are working on have those funky V-drive/bevel drives with the engine spun around over the shafts?
No, nothing quite that odd here. This subchaser was re-powered after an engine room fire sometime in the 70's. It has a pair of V-12 MWM's (German made) with traditional reduction gears. The gears have a 5 to 1 ratio! Now that's a slow turning prop.
We removed the original WWII vintage shafts, couplers, packing glands and props.
The shafts were in three sections, all mild steel. The steel shafting outside the boat where it was exposed to sea water, was wrapped in plaster, then wrapped in rubber sleeving. Definitely the weirdest shafts I ever had the pleasure to remove.
We primarily used a sawzall.
:-)
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Post by Zach »

That is the weirdest shaft setup I've ever heard of... guess they didn't have any bronze or stainless... (Grin!)

"Say... if we wrap em up in plaster and rubber, they won't rot out before the wars over!"
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You're dad's boat is really something and definitely worth looking after.

By the way, did you know that the Wheeler Company of Brooklyn, NY also built Ernest Hemingway's sportfishing boat Pilar?
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Post by Zach »

Shark,

Cool! Kind of neat that she has a connection to the Old Man and the Sea too.

Shameless plug... updated and added some more pictures tonight. (Grin)

Signed,
Zach - Shamelessly. (Grin)
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