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  1. #91
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    Default Trailer

    This morning went well.
    Foam padding cut, stapled in place then the carpet cut and stapled in place. I I'll get some gal clouts to hold it in place more permanently.
    The winch cable was removed and tossed way. It was galvanised cable that was kinked, flattened and had some split strands. It is highly unlikely that the cable will be used to winch the boat onto the trailer but it's not a good look to have a nice boat on a reasonable trailer with crappy finishing items. Besides the webbing strap for the winch was not really a costly item.

    I have removed the winch from the sampson post as it was welded on fairly poorly. It also gave me the opportunity to remove some rust from under the winch. When it's replaced I will bolt it in place rather than weld it again.

    Now the rain has come and stopped the outside work for the present.
    I have removed the waterpump off the engine and pulled it apart to find that the impeller was shagged. A couple of the vanes were broken and others showed signs of starting to fail.

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  3. #92
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    Default Bouquets to Par

    Your advice with regard to the inspection of the water pump was spot on. I removed it and did an inspection. The inspection showed that the impeller had failed. Several of the vanes had major cracks and some others had signs of stress fractures.
    I intended to inspect he pump but your advice was correct and greatly appreciated.

    It is a fairly common pump and I have found the part number for the said pump overhaul kit. Finding one of these overhaul kits may be a bit of different matter.

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    Yeah, I got lucky. I'm not fooled by impellers any more. Even if they look fine, but have a year or more on them, I just pull them out and install a new one. I've be out, rowing home a huge powerboat more then once, because the damn impeller looked fine, according to the owner. Never again . . .

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    Default Steering

    Over last weekend I played around with the steering. I had to buy a couple of pulleys for inside of the transom because I misplaced/stored away in a safe place one of the brackets. Once these were installed I hooked up the steering cables only to find that I had made a major whoopsie. Turn wheel to port rudder, turns boat to starboard.
    Oh, well let's go and do it all again. Spent a couple of hours to remove cables and sort out where I went wrong. All sorted now, a major embarrassment was averted. I put a couple of turnbuckles in the cables under the deck edge in the aft cockpit. The cables have not had the swages done on them yet but the thimbles have been installed and the cables clamped with just cable clamps. I will wait till I can see it I ever find the original bracket before I have the permanent fitting of the cables.

    Flooring installed, screwed in place but can be removed to clean underneath. There is a lot of dirt and dust still in the boat. I think the best way to get this crud out will be to get it back on the trailer and hit it with a hose to wash it all out through the drains in the transom. This will probably also help start the swelling of the planks prior to any launch. I've got a large bilge pump ready to install as well as the instruments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by piquet View Post
    I see that you are from musswellbrook, a nice part of the world.
    A couple of my mates from my navy days grew up your town Roy Studdert and Graham Norton. They joined the RAN in the late 1960's. In fact as far as I am aware Grahams' sister still lives in town.
    Sorry for the tardy reply. I am not really a local, grew up on a property about 70k from Mussy, but have had a fair bit of contact with RSL over the last few years due to my wife's Dad. cheers james

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    It's been a month since I have posted any update.

    So I not sure where I was up to when I gave the last update.
    In that time I have remounted the turning fin in place, bolted the skeg in place and installed the skeg bush. The bolts for mounting he skeg were not long enough so I had to counterbore the internal reinforcing. Tomorrow I will take it back out and run a router across the area so that I can use the stainless steel reo plate.

    I have mounted the cavation plate and the rudder shaft bracket. The towing hooks, the drain plugs and exhaust tips have also been mounted to the transom. The water pickups are ready to install.

    The floors for the front and rear cockpits have been made and varnished. They are screwed in place but are easily removed as there are still some things to do under the floorboards such as mounting the bilge pump, running the cooling water hoses, the dog box drive gear shift lever and some other bits and pieces.
    I have found that I have a problem with clearance for the propellor. Because the boat overall as been shortened by about 40 mm as a result of the planking having ragged ends and the nail holes being oversize the gap between the leading edge of the rudder an the blades of the propellor is now not there. I will have to either set the cavitation plate and the rudder shaft bracket off the transom with some thick wooden packers and longer bolts or grind a scallop in the leading edge of the rudder or machine something off the aft end of the skeg or a bit of everything above.

    The boat is now back on the trailer and I have given it a big wash out to get all the dust and crud out of all the little nooks and crannies that the vacuum cleaner just seem to pick up. It also exposed where and how many leaks there are. There were a couple which I was not surprised to find. The boat has not been near the water for probably 5-6 years so it's a bit dry. A couple of the nail holes leak. I'm hoping that they take up whe the boat swells from being in the water for a while.
    Today after putting the skeg bush in the skeg I tried to put the prop shaft in place. It was a really tight fit. I may have to run a reamer through to open it out a bit. Not sure if that's he right thing to do but before I do that I will talk to the skeg bush supplier. He's been doing this stuff for many years and may have a simple answer.

    Work list for tomorrow is replace the seals in the shaft gland, do the skeg reinforcing plate and install the water pickups.

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    The seals that I purchased for the log gland are the wrong size. The OD is too small so I have to return them and get the correct size.
    The skeg mounting reinforcing has been modified to use the S/S reinforcing plate and it's all bolted in place. It has to be removed, a gasket made and then bolted back on to check the alignment of the shaft in the shaft log. If it all lines up then it will have its' final fitting.
    Have to mount some conduit up under the deck edge for the wiring. Make a mount for where I intend to mount the battery. Get all the wiring for the instruments and then put the instruments in the dashboard.

    I have the ignition switch, the bilge pump mounting and switch just have to work out where I should mount them.
    i have a fuel tank but it's not the right size. It's too good to modify so I will look for one that will fit in the allocated space better and then sell this one.

    The weather looks fine for the weekend so I might spray another coat of varnish on the deck.

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    Default All done for now

    As looney tunes says

    "that's all folks"

    a big dose of the CBFs. My CML is back. So I have shelved the project and will shortly be putting the thing up for sale. Don't care what I get for it just will want it gone when the time comes round.
    If interested just watch out for the thing on eBay or gumtree soon.
    cheers
    Peter.

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    Very sorry to read your most recent post as I have enjoyed your project to date.
    Good luck with everything.

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    Very sorry to hear of your bad luck. Was enjoying the detailed blog.
    Do you feel like educating us a bit about CML? Or do you have too little time and better things to do?
    All the best to you under the circumstances anyway!
    Joe

    Cheers,
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    Cheers,
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    9"thicknesser/planer, 12" bench saw, 2Hp Dusty, 5/8" Drill press, 10" Makita drop saw, 2Hp Makita outer, the usual power tools and carpentry hand tools...

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    I suspect he has better things to do. There's plenty of information available online. Short version is it's no fun at all.

    Best of luck, piquet, for what it's worth.
    You know you're making progress when there's sawdust in your coffee.

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    Thanks for the wishes. Last year I was diagnosed with CML, chronic myeloid leukemia. This is a blood cancer and can be nasty. Luckily there are chemotherapy drugs to treat this but they can have side affects. Some are as bad as the cancer. I haven't got many but the feeling of hopelessness and not knowing is rather telling on me.

    I have an an appointment with the Oncology professor in a couple of weeks time and may have to get some outside assistance. I had been using the boat project as a kind of therapy but it's clearly not working anymore.
    it seems like the boat is getting near completion but it's so far away still

    cheers
    peter

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    Hi Piquet
    I lost my father recently and have been touched by your story.
    May I suggest you consider having a talk to the guys at your local Men's Shed - they may be happy to provide the labour to finish the project (with or without your guidance) and if nothing else you would meet a lot of supportive people. If you don't care about what you get for the boat anyway it would be nice to think it could be finished by some motivated blokes (with the associated benefit to them) and perhaps then sold and part of the proceeds being used for the Men's Shed organisation.
    Just a thought.
    Again good luck with everything.
    Bagman

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    Default The project

    After a lot of therapy of the medical kind and some fairly intense counselling through the Austin Hospital ON-J wellness centre, I'm feeling a lot better and happier with my lot in life.

    I haven't done anything about disposing of the project nor have I done very much to it either. The support people talked me around from disposing of it at present at least. I've also had a couple of mates from the car club and ex navy mates offer to help me get it completed.

    So hopefully when I get my act together and start to get things going again in earnest I will be able to give further updates.

    so I won't say I'm back on the straight and narrow yet but things are improving.

    cheers
    peter

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    This is good new indeed. The boat can wait, regardless of its eventual disposition.

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