dripless shaft seals and rudder ports

[Capt.Troy Crane]

Jay,
I am assuming you have the flat one that bolts down to the bottom of the boat and has the shaft log coming off of it ?

Lots of chiseling and a sawzall if I rember right.........oh, and a few cuss words. It was put there to stay no doubt.

The wood was pretty damp under it after we removed it, so we put the lamps on it for a couple of days before we started on the tubes. Trying to cut the wet juniper out to fit the tube was a pain.

I hope you have the shaft log out by the time you read this,let me know how it goes.

Troy

[Captain Jay Kavanagh]

Thanks Troy and for the call as well, we got the tube out about noon, used a bottle jacke against the coupling and pushed till we were out of tube in the boat, bolted a chain to the end and ran it to a come a long to a piling, almost pulled the boat off the block, but we got it and the boat is still on the stands.

Getting ready to cut the new tube hole.

[Capt.Troy Crane]

Glad you got it out Jay,
amazing how that stuff wants to hang on huh ??

I'm glad I called you, I was wondering if you had the same set up as we removed from the old Temptress, thanks for explaining it to me.
Sounds like it will be a lot easier than what we had to deal with as far as cutting the new hole for the tube.

Good luck,
Troy

[Questsportfishing]

No mo' slingin' salt water on your trannys and engine room! plus your not worried about having to look at the shaft log for 3 minutes apiece so you can go home knowing your boats not going to sink.. no more packing the glands... good on ya kids!

[Captain Jay Kavanagh]

some pics....

on the hard.


New Wheel:


new rudder shape, Squeekyjack Marine will be welding the blade.


Shaft tube:


I can see the light at the end of the tunnel or shaft tube rather.

[Captain Jay Kavanagh]

So Jeremy's Family grows Christmas trees up in the mountains, we are just about to wrap up the work or as Jeremy said, we are in the short rows.

some more pics

New Rudder bearing/seal, shelf etc



New Dripless shaft seal



Bonus cool sunset pic - Hope to be back in the slip soon!

[JD5652]

Capt-

Looks like the project is coming along great! Did you have to realign the shaft to the tranny after the dripless packing install?

[Captain Jay Kavanagh]

No cause we did not move anything, and we floated the tube in on the shaft attatched through the strut and in the coupling and glued it in place, so the alignment has not changed.

We finished up in the boatyard today, we will be splashing on Monday here are some pics of the final work:

Running Gear




Stern shot


Buffed, Waxed, bottom freshly painted

[TROPHY SPORTFISHING]

Jay what's the wedge on just the port side for to counter torque? Or did i miss that there is one on the stbd also.

[Captain Jay Kavanagh]

That my friend is my Wanchese trim tab.

When the boat was repowered in 2000 with the big Cat, all of the torgue from the new motor with alot more power, torqued her over to the side, she is a fairly light boat.

Ritchie Howell, measured a cut the tab for me, and we glued it on, it was perfect.

Wanchese Trim Tab.