Warren Holybee
Active Member
Eliana is on the hard as of today. The last haul out was in Panama about 2 years ago, for a very quick coat of paint. The paint is in bad shape, but not actually as bad as I expected. That will save a lot of money, as I am going to put off the complete strip down to gel coat. I expect I am going to head to Mexico this November, maybe I will get to it while I'm down there. Or in Fiji.
A few pics. It took less than an hour for me to get the rudder off. The yard will pull the propellor. Cutlass is beyond shot, but I knew that. I also snapped a picture of the HDPE bushing that I made for the gudgeon. I think most use UHMW from McMaster, and I bought some of that to replace the HDPE. I'm pretty surprised the HDPE held up for 35,000nm. I sourced the HDPE from a milk jug. It wasn't anything fancy.
Plan is that it will rain the next few days and the yard won't be working on her. This weekend I hope to get the cutlass done, the new Maxprop on, and the rudder back on.
I also bought some underwater lights. I used to think they were nonsense, until I was in the tropics on a friends boat that had them.
Also some pictures of my dyneema steering "cable". There is an odd corrosion like substance, almost as if the dyneema was metal and reacting with the aluminum/stainless. I think the dyneema will be ok after a cleaning, but I want to know what is going on. I have about 10,000 miles and 2.5 years on the dyneema. I'll end up replacing it very soon, but don't want to disassemble the pedestal right now in the yard.
A few pics. It took less than an hour for me to get the rudder off. The yard will pull the propellor. Cutlass is beyond shot, but I knew that. I also snapped a picture of the HDPE bushing that I made for the gudgeon. I think most use UHMW from McMaster, and I bought some of that to replace the HDPE. I'm pretty surprised the HDPE held up for 35,000nm. I sourced the HDPE from a milk jug. It wasn't anything fancy.
Plan is that it will rain the next few days and the yard won't be working on her. This weekend I hope to get the cutlass done, the new Maxprop on, and the rudder back on.
I also bought some underwater lights. I used to think they were nonsense, until I was in the tropics on a friends boat that had them.
Also some pictures of my dyneema steering "cable". There is an odd corrosion like substance, almost as if the dyneema was metal and reacting with the aluminum/stainless. I think the dyneema will be ok after a cleaning, but I want to know what is going on. I have about 10,000 miles and 2.5 years on the dyneema. I'll end up replacing it very soon, but don't want to disassemble the pedestal right now in the yard.
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