Marina

[basscatcherbob]

marina

been down to royal quays today god was it cold, shovelled two foot of snow out of shanka the new pump worked fine when covered, ritchie i checked on stingray and cleared yours too there was only snow in yours hardly any ice. mike

[northeast1]

Cheers for that returned the favour from last year

I not been able to make it down...did you get your new fee's letter today

[Norman]

chris,
3 yr anti fouling sounds like its pushing it a bit but to be honest even after 3 yrs there usually seems not too much fouling, and the anodes were still intact 2 on rudder one on prop (sometimes) and one on skeg (maybe due to the fairly large size of rudder anodes (2 off)).

Here`s the last 4 clean ups at :-
March 2002
June 2004
July 2007
June 2010
(and the resulting ready to return)

I did have 2 lifts out and check somewhere between these for prop tangles (caught just outside the lock gates) one a large black plastic bag and one a piece of discarded soft furnishing

March 2002




June 2004




July 2007




and most recent June 2010




and the "back in" condition .............





The prop anode is sometimes missing (along with the bolt) but to date have seen no adverse effect of this (maybe the prop throws the anode at lift in ..... )

norm

[The Great Wallsendo]

why is your prop a nice gold/brassy colour Norman? I thought they were supposed to be blue...

[Kev1n]

why is your prop a nice gold/brassy colour Norman? I thought they were supposed to be blue...

Looks like he's missed a bit when painting the antifoul on. Time for another lift to finish the job Norman?

[mark]

Not really looked at your prop/rudder in detail before norman, interesting that there's not a pintle on the bottom of the rudder connecting to the skeg

[The Jester]

Those periods between anti fouling and the condition of the hull and anodes are impressive Norman....What anti foul do you use, is it the copper enhanced type.

[mark]

Those periods between anti fouling and the condition of the hull and anodes are impressive Norman....What anti foul do you use, is it the copper enhanced type.

think norman uses the 20knot variety of antifouling whenever possible!!

[Marc]

I think he has also changed his car between pics 1 and 2 or has been nicking aeroplane wheels for his 4x4 from work, can you get any more

[lingking]

rudder

aye norman im no engineer but im surprised also that theres no support from the skeg to the bottom of the rudder.

[The Jester]

The skeg and rudder set up is the same as my Merry Fisher 635.

[northeast1]

It is also the same as my Arvor, guess they know best when building them.

[Norman]

Mark, thats very observant of you , 10 out of 10 ...............

I think due to the skeg being just fastened ON to the keel it is regarded as more of a rope protector than a support or anything else, however , and this is why I said mark very observant, this is the only part of the whole craft that may need some physical maintainence in the next 5 years or so.
I noticed at the last antifoul that the rudder shaft has a bit of sidway slack in the rudder tube as if the tube is beginning to wear, this may have been avoided with a pintle support at lower end.
It's not a great problem with only about a couple of mm play and will be checked over in a couple of years when I next antifoul (the tube exits inside the hull above waterline and the top end forms the thrust retainer for the rudder shaft.) I expect I will remove the skeg, drop the rudder and shaft down, knock the bearing tube (nylon) out and replace with new.
(If I replace it and get another 15 years out of it I`ll be happy)

However hats off mark, well spotted on a potential improvement.



norm

[lingking]

rudders

im sure the system is well tried and tested not least by jester rich and norman

[mark]

depending on the size of tube, could you not fit a wee cutlass bearing where the shaft exits the tube? should give it a bit more comfort and take a lot more stress than a nylon one. Would worry me that the play on the rudder stock could set up quite a bit of vibration that might not be noticeable, but could have an impact on the laminate/layup. The rubber in a cutlass would absorb that easily

that said the layout must work in general as I've not heard of many (or any really) failures, but I bet the tube would be a bugger to replace it it became over worn