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I already asked this on the BOC and figured I could get some other opinions or experience here as well
Woe to thee whom buys a used boat and starts looking a little to hard :silly:
While working on my list of things I found wrong during my inspections. . .and comparing and checking it against my surveyors list of deficiencies. . .
. . .I'm coming up with a third list of things we both missed inch:
And this first one is a bit of a stomach turner
As the picture shows, there is a chunk of my stbd. prop shaft missing! It looks like it was broken out, which kind of doesn't make any sense. In all the time I've crawled in and around the bilge, I'd swear I would have noticed something like that. And the reflective tape is right there where surveyor put it on to check the rpms, I assume it would have been in sight. The shiny part of the shaft made me think the engine shifted forward and revealed that spot, but I see no evidence of engine movement and I even ran the engine in gear and goosed the throttles a bit. The shaft didn't move one way or the other. There is newer stuffing box hose on there now, I just assumed the shiny was from when it was changed out. . .any advice, ideas, things to check? Can something like that be fixed? I priced out a new shaft and ouch!
(see attached pic)
This next question relates to underwater corrosion. I dove on the boat to check things out and brush off the zincs, etc. The port prop had 2 spots (one per blade) on it that looked like a thin black ring with pink in the middle, about the size of a fingernail, that I could scratch off. Never seen anything like before, in person or on the net. The shaft is zinc'd and is isolated with a shaft saver. No picture though, sorry
Advice, recommendations, things to check for, etc. are all welcome B)
Woe to thee whom buys a used boat and starts looking a little to hard :silly:
While working on my list of things I found wrong during my inspections. . .and comparing and checking it against my surveyors list of deficiencies. . .
. . .I'm coming up with a third list of things we both missed inch:
And this first one is a bit of a stomach turner
As the picture shows, there is a chunk of my stbd. prop shaft missing! It looks like it was broken out, which kind of doesn't make any sense. In all the time I've crawled in and around the bilge, I'd swear I would have noticed something like that. And the reflective tape is right there where surveyor put it on to check the rpms, I assume it would have been in sight. The shiny part of the shaft made me think the engine shifted forward and revealed that spot, but I see no evidence of engine movement and I even ran the engine in gear and goosed the throttles a bit. The shaft didn't move one way or the other. There is newer stuffing box hose on there now, I just assumed the shiny was from when it was changed out. . .any advice, ideas, things to check? Can something like that be fixed? I priced out a new shaft and ouch!
(see attached pic)
This next question relates to underwater corrosion. I dove on the boat to check things out and brush off the zincs, etc. The port prop had 2 spots (one per blade) on it that looked like a thin black ring with pink in the middle, about the size of a fingernail, that I could scratch off. Never seen anything like before, in person or on the net. The shaft is zinc'd and is isolated with a shaft saver. No picture though, sorry
Advice, recommendations, things to check for, etc. are all welcome B)