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margitchris

After much saving, salivating, and soul searching, my laden box of bronze from Jamestown Distributors arrived yesterday. Question #1 the new Apollos are so stiff I can't move the handles without some sort of mechanical advantage. Should/can they be lubed ( not with graphite) ? Can they be made easie...

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I had. The same situation with my rudder tube. I tried squeezing the 1.5 inch Buck Algonquin hose down to the smaller size with hose clamps, but didn't trust it. I ended up getting the best exhaust hose I could find with 1.25 inner diameter. Just keep an eye on it, which you should do anyway. My rud...

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I double checked prop bore and it matches the shaft fore and aft. The prop, a Vetus, is unique in two ways: the hub is about 3/4 inch shallower than the prop I took off and the blade tips are swept aft to a higher degree. As it is, the prop fits my boat with the blade tips ending up in about the sam...

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You are exactly right: Bill Tripp.

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These pictures are from a year ago. I'm a bit further along but not done yet.

margitchris

: amputated blades with rough hub.

Armed with one opinion and my gut, I proceeded to cut the blades off the old prop and roughly shape the blade-less hub to its new function.

margitchris

The story goes like this: old prop had been painted with bottom paint by a previous owner and was no good. A prop was found on ebay, so I held my breath and bought it. When it arrived I discovered it was machined to a non-standard shaft taper profile. new gap resize.JPG The thing is: the new prop fi...

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Should cutless bearing set screws be bronze, brass, or stainless? My stern tube is fiberglass. Also, just bought some sapele to make cap rails with. It looks like a great choice over teak. Does anyone have experience with this wood?

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Lacking a response from anyone else, I'll respond myself. Generally, if something bothers you...something you can do something about... do it. If you sense a problem, chances are good that your sense won't go away, but will nag at you over time. Second, and this is to my own situation, it is bad des...

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I purchased Buck Algonquin shaft log hose to replace the rudder tube hose, but the Buck Algonquin comes no smaller than 1 1/2 inch inner diameter and my tube is 1 1/4. I installed the hose and squeezed it down firmly with two SS hose clamps, but have begun to doubt whether that is permissible. Once ...

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It turns out Moeller has aluminum hose barbs and West Marine has a catalog number for what I need. I'll stay with similar metals.

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The new diesel tank has aluminum fittings, but most available hose barbs are brass. Aluminum and brass look to be very close on the nobility scale. Does anyone see a problem with using them together?

margitchris

Thank you for the reminder, Rachel. In truth I had forgotten to look for the pinkish hue, but the prop was painted with various coats of anti-fouling paint anyway. I had definitely noticed the tell-tale hue in other bronze hardware I had removed from the boat. I am in shock with the price for new Ya...

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As he was preparing to sound the prop, he was commenting that they degrade from the inside out. He spent time with me and charged nothing. He didn't even try to sell me another prop; said to look on Ebay. He seemed pleased to talk to a sailor and told me several sailing stories.

margitchris

Is a prop's RH or LH orintation read from the stern? So a RH prop will turn clockwise to move the boat forward when viewed from the stern? I took my old prop to a shop and was told is was really a bit beyond reconditioning. In addition to being distorted in pitch it didn't "sing". ( The gu...

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Is structural fiberglass tubing such as found at McMaster-Carr http://www.mcmaster.com/#tubing/=c9tua9 acceptable to use as a shaft log?
Does anyone see significant advantage in using bronze?

margitchris

The same make and model used to be berthed two boats down from mine. It is now covered in vines and snakes up a little creek off the Wakulla River; owner disabled or dead and marina unable or unwilling to seek another option. Another boat worthy of attention, but through ignorance and apathy is left...

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For an unladen boat to sit lower in the stern is not uncommon. Some figure these boats are designed to deal with anchor chain weight. Added weight in the chain locker will get her back on her lines and probably help sailing and pointing ability too.

margitchris

As I work on my boat's restoration, occasionally the sobering thought crosses my mind that, once finished, all it would take would be one bad storm to completely negate all my efforts. Then there is the question that once I do finish and am ready to put the boat back in the water, will I be able to ...

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I am certainly glad to hear that. For some reason his supposed "disappearance" weighed heavily on my mind. Most of us are at the age when our health can fall from under us in a literal heartbeat.

margitchris

Are the vanes in the new impeller turned the right way?
Is the pick-up hose clear?
Have wasps made a home in your exhaust outlet that would block passage?
Does your exhause elbow need flushing?
Good luck!!

margitchris

I would love to post pictures of my recently completed deck paint, but I don't own a digital camera and my wife's cell phone pictures can't be read by Photobucket. I'll give it another shot when I get home today. Now I have to worry about messing it up before the boat makes it back inot the water. C...

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I'm getting ready to install new plastic ports and have bought butyl caulk for the purpose. Can butyl caulk be smoothed in a way similar to silicone caulk? I'd like to leave a fillet of caulk around the outside of the ports, but want it to look nice. I thought I would use masking tape around the per...

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His site has not been updated since January 28. Does anyone know if Allen who owns Kaholee has come into health trouble or is he simply chilling in Texas with his "Sweetie"?
Chris Miller
Lloyd, Florida

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Has anyone ever tried cutting fiberglass window screen to shape, laying it on the deck in a bed of rolled wet epoxy, and, when cured, painting over the result?

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As always, Tim, I appreciate your time and expertise in answering. It turns out that despite my great care in matching Alexseal products I did use "old style" finish primer with "new style" converter. The reason I didn't use the "old style" converter is it looked suspic...

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Something is not right. I sprayed a coat of white Alexseal Finish Primer on my deck about a month ago. I sprayed it over gray finish primer. Last night I started sanding with 320 grit and the primer doesn't sand; it loads up the sandpaper in little cakes. Another anomaly is that the primer is glossy...

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It looks to me like you have the basses covered. Certainly a new alternator is in order. Odd, though, that the starter works. Have you determined whether there were any additional pinholes in the hull caused be sideflashes? Some of the scaredest I've ever been on aboat is during lightning storms. I'...

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There are some people who can work outside here in north Florida and stay relatively dry, but I am not one of them. Even at rest in the shade I can begin to drip in a matter of minutes. Yesterday, while spraying finish primer on my deck, I probably spent as much time mopping up the sweat as spraying...

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Zach, If you are into eye splices, ( I am ) you might stand forwarned that Sayset X is a bear to work with. There must be some sort of enabling trick, but getting the fid through the line was nearly impossible because there is so little give to the weave. Chris Miller 3 years on the hard Seafarer 31...

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Before I jump into this, I want to clarify my understanding of mix ratios for paint. Whereas 1:1:1/2 equals 1 gallon paint and one gallon converter, does the 1/2 (reducer) number equal 1/2 gallon? Then does the 25% number reflect the ratio of reducer to the total volume of paint and converter? Any o...

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I called my brother in Milwaukee the other day and remembered to ask him about the boat grounded on the lakeshore. " Oh, you heard about that?" he asked. The report is that amidst much hoopla they had cut it into three pieces, loaded the pieces onto a truck and it is now a very sad memory....

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Today is Sunday, February 3, 2008. I decided a few weeks ago that it was time to give up hoping that the prop would come off and simply cut the shaft. Today, however, I tried the nuts on the puller one more time and was surprised to notice they were loose. all three took at least a full turn and sti...

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I just picked up my nine-month-old PC 7335 sander from the repair shop. They replaced the bearings. Having lost the receipt, I had to pay for the repair ( the sander is waranteed for a year). The sander instructions suggest blowing out the sander with compressed air occasionally. Tim also mentioned ...

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Duncan, I own a 1971 Seafarer 31 foot yawl, a Bill Tripp design. I own it not because I set out to buy a Seafarer, but because it just happened to be available when I happened to have the money. The hull is solid; no problems there. The fiberglass is hand-laid and of appropriately beefy dimension. T...

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You should be able to view the pictures now. I have not posted pictures before, so I had too much stuff in the image address. Sorry.

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Seafarer yachts are often powered with an outboard motor mounted in an aft lazarette. An opening in the counter through doors affectionately termed "bomb bay doors" is where the outboard motor shaft exits the hull. When I began thinking about the oddities of the inboard engine istallation ...

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Since the quiet of winter is settling in and since I finally pried my wife's cell phone away from her to take the pictures, here is my refit project of a 1971 Seafarer 31 yawl. She has been on the hard a little more than a year. The is nothing new here; just more shots of a ground and filled deck on...

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I remeber reading somewhere, maybe in the West System manual, that 410 should not be used in deck fairing because of its sensitivity to heat. I have a very small amount on my deck right now that I used before I knew this. I plan to leave it there. Let's hope we both "get away with it." Chr...

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I don't think I have the guts to do it, but I've often imagined a pink hull color with a slightly off-white deck and boot stripe. As I saw it in my mind, it wasn't your regular chick-pink, but something... well, I couldn't quite picture it. Yesterday, I saw the colors. We are "vacationing"...

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Thank you Tim, All your assumptions are correct concerning my intents with brushing, and finish priming only the smooth areas. I appreciate your input and will adjust the quantities accordingly. I am still considering spraying. I have a Campbell-Hausfield HVLP sprayer ( basically a vacuum cleaner mo...

margitchris

Hello, Assuming I get over my sticker shock after looking at the prices for Alexseal products, how much of everything should I buy to paint the deck? It's a 31' boat with a 9' beam. I do plan to do the non-skid in Interlux. How does this look? 1 gal P3002Super build primer 1 gal C3052converter 1 qua...

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If you do get a new alarm, be prepared for a shock. I replaced mine after a hurricane left the boat awash and as I recall it was $100 or more. I think you are right, however, to insist that this element of you mechanical system work properly, no matter the cost. Chris Miller Seafarer 31 yawl Lloyd, ...

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The shaft is stainless.

margitchris

Thanks for all the ideas. The skeg-hung rudder makes pulling the whole shaft impossible. It will have to be pulled from inside the hull with the engine at least moved off its mounts, making an excellent opportunity to repleace motor mounts and put a good, clean coat of Bilgecoat on the engine beds. ...

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Just for the benefit of the lurkers, today is Sunday, more than a week after I began my efforts to remove the prop. I have squirter penetrating oil on the shaft on both sides of the prop at least twice a day. I have kept the puller's three bolts as tight as I can get them without using extra mechani...

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I bought the Walter "Safe Way" puller. It is the typw that has a steel disc that fits around the shaft behind the prop. Three bolts extend from the disc between the prop blades to another steel disc that fits over the prop nut. I tried to fabricate one of my own, but oak wasn' up to the ta...

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OK, I'm not cool. I bought the $100 prop puller. I confidently marched out to the backyard and fitted the puller onto the prop shaft and tightened the bolts. Nothing. I fired up my MAPP gas torch and heated the prop hub. Nothing. I even, against some people's advice, gave a few whacks with a carpent...

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Re: Packing/Stuffing Box Hose

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seafarer 31 refit

Re: odd shaft taper

odd shaft taper

cutless set screw and sapele

Re: Source for Alexseal paint.

Re: hose squeeze

hose squeeze

Re: aluminum with brass

aluminum with brass

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Re: prop orientation

prop orientation

shaft log source?

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Re: How should the Triton sit at the mooring?

Re: Flight Over the Oil Spill Video

Re: How much paint?

Re: Has anyone heard from Alan aboard KAHOLEE?

Re: Wet exhaust not all that wet

Re: Nothing New?

butyl caulk

Allen of Kaholee

Re: MAS epoxy non-skid patterns

Re: Alexseal finish primer

Alexseal finish primer

Re: Thoughts on buying a boat that was struck by lightning

sweat

Re: The Great Grinder War of 2009

1:1: 1/2

Seafarer 31refit

1955 hull color

how much paint?

prop and shaft wedded