LOL, yeah got that. Not my first rodeo, by a long shot. I've been on boats and in shipyards literally since before I could walk. I just had a few specific questions regarding this specific boat. I just decided to leave the shaft alone and pull the stern tube. Much easier to do it this way and easier to bring it home and press the cutlass in and out. I can clean the tube nicely as well this way and put a nice clean layer of 4200 on things since I'm pretty sure the lower bolt on the stern tube was where I was getting water in my bilge. Stepping up from 1/2" to 3/4" tru-hull and strainer for the gen-set, 1/2" just seems absurd! Plus if I need to swap it out, it'll already be able to flow more if I get a bigger unit. Prop has been re-done. Prop scan mumbo jumbo, computer gizmo, whatever. They had a prop coated with propspeed in the lobby. Didn't care for it. It felt kind of rubbery and would roll off like silicone if rubbed hard with a thumb or finger-not to mention what a fingernail would do, :-O. I'll just be putting on several coats of ablative bottom paint like always. Wish I had some of that "hard" bottom paint to try out on the running gear. Maybe next time.
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TIME well wasted
1984 34' Mainship III
Arkan'tsaw
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