Before I install my new genoa track and cars I thought I should repair the side deck.
On a plus side the dremel and a vacuum cleaner with a funnel attached kept the fibreglass dust to a minimum
End grain Balsa, who ever thought that was a good idea. Obviously never read about the Kon-tiki voyage!
Bought the right rear gear box seal and fitted it
Fitted the PSS seal kit after aligning the engine gear box needed to raise the back engine mount by 4 shims.
Fitted up the gear box level after finishing off the PSS seal kit . Then fitted the engine exhaust hose. Ill replace the hose clamps with good ones later
Tomorrow its the gear box and throttle cable and Ill pull the instrument panel and bring it home to marry it to the DV 24.
The bearing behind the water pump inside the engine house ( hand crank housing) appears a bit suspect so Ill replace it then refit the water pump
happy but could do with a physio tonight
Later on Ill pull the motor and give it a minor over haul either next winter of the following .
I might come a cross a BW 7 gear box some time The BW 6 works fine
Ive a long list of jobs right now Donk I don't want any more I'm my own worst enemy
I second that statement jolene
And good luck with that job andy
That would belike doing my port lights again
Wondering what you will use as a medium Andy?Foam?
It will be better that new when your done
You do good work
ha ha thanks Jolene and HG, and your right Ramona end grain balsa for a deck is asking for trouble.
I've glued a piece of solid timber under the track and foam for the rest, tomorrow I will sand it then will vacuum bag the underneath layer of glass to make a sandwich.
Funny thing was that there was a solid piece of timber for the track, but the track was bolted through the end grain 1 inch away.
Hi Andy
How come you tackled it from underneath? Glassing upside down isn't a lot of fun or were you trying to save the non skid?
Al
Today I replaced the 3 x 200amp battery's with 6 x 120 hour AGM
a big expensive job I have been trying to avoid!
when I was away on my last sailing adventure the 200amp hour battery's where actually discharging 4 amps even with the power off!
Now I have 720 amps in the bow and 200 amps in the stern!
big problem is I have to run all my negative wires Down to the stern bank to connect to the bus bar if I want to see the charge going into the forward bank! Scratch head!
also just ordered these solar panels ......looks like a good price.! http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/290903477344
Just got the latest update from Structures, Fusion has successfully been loaded and starts her final journey. only 51 sleeps to go!
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Nice one Shaggy!
So you get her just after Christmas hey? I hope they put some tinsel and baubles on it for you!
What is her draft with the keel in the up position mate?
Hi NaZ,
I am doing lots of positive visualisation, having nice happy thoughts about how wonderful it is that Customs clear the boat quickly :)
1.2mtrs draft with the keel up, 3m down.
Oh! I almost forgot, Cisco was right, you can sail it with the keel up. Antoine was saying they mandate it down for safety, but he grinned and said downwind it could be good. The negative with having the keel up and sailing is it will eventually wear the bushing that houses the keel pin, as the heavy end of the keel is being held up under the rear of the hull.
....and now for something slightly different than Shaggy's sparkling clean mean machine.......
I have been getting ready for launch day, cleaning the bilge after work during the week. I messed up an oil change earlier this year when a hose
from the vac pump was split and pumping oil into the bilge instead of the bucket :( I scraped a load of sludge out and cleaned up with sawdust>
Dirty Bilge after scrape:
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...will give the bilge a wash out with detergent before launch
I checked out the water pump sprocket bearing a needle roller its in good shape
But decided to replace the aging drive chain to much stretch for my liking . I replaced the water pump with a DV 24 pump I had already bought months ago which was fitted to the DV 20. I cleaned up the gasket surfaces during the week and bead blasted the outer cover and repaint it ready to refit. I think Ill run the Bosch 90 amp alternator instead of the original Bukh DV 24 Valeo 50 amp.
Not much happened today had to work
I did fit a prop shaft anode last week
HG. My Santana has a 'P' bracket between the keel and prop. Is there any advantage other
than having more space to fit an anode??.
Ha ha Jolene too true.