FWIW the hi-tech dripless packings seem to be more trouble
than they're worth. A regular old-fashioned packing need not
drip when stopped (if properly packed & properly adjusted),
and the bilge should have an easily pumped sump anyway.

Larry wrote:
.... He replaced the grease packing I thought was
a damned great idea with a dripless approved one the idiots at the same
boatyard forgot to put a loop and anti-siphon on its water charging
hose...which backed up from the bearing into the Perkins 4-108 flooding 3
cylinders off Florida and hydrolocking the Perkins at Ponce Inlet, which is
great fun to sail up in a 41' ketch with the tide ripping through it so
Towboat US can get to tow you to Daytona Beach hours away.


More trouble than they're worth, I tell you.

Sometimes, this newfangled high technology fol-de-rol is
really cool.... epoxy & carbon fiber, for instance. Other
times, it's not nearly as cool as the people trying to sell
it to you claim it is

Fresh Breezes- Doug King