Hi, Bob, and list,

"Bob" wrote in message
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On Dec 13, 6:53 am, "Flying Pig" wrote:
Hi, y'all,

My antenna feed for the current installation runs in our bilge,


WIth all your wrecks and rebuilds and refits why on earth do you have
wires in your bilge??????

Cuz that's how it gets where it needs to go. You didn't read the rest of
it, natch, cuz it didn't suit your bashing. Some folks think of bilge as
the very bottom of the boat. I didn't - if I'm incorrect, my bad. Tell me
what else to call it...

and our
rudder post is currently in need of repacking, sending a constant stream
of
water down the bilge/limberholes,


Uhhh have you given the nut a bit of a turn??????

Many times, over many instances.

Why did you let it get to that condition?????????? That **** just does
nt happen over night. uggg.

The problem is that the post itself is corroded/pitted. That not only lets
water through, but wears on the packing.

During the wreck, we expected to have to replace the rudder, but it was
pronounced sound by several knowledgeable folks. The next major haulout, we
may indeed have to do that, unless we can find a machine shop which can
build it up and turn it back down to the proper size. Until that time, we
just have to live with it. It's time for a repack, anyway, as it's right at
3 years since I did it. Not a biggie - but the very best circumstances
still has it leaking slightly.

And, to another of your posts, we didn't sink - pretty hard to sink on a
shelf that's dry at MLW :{))

The only things which got wet were about a hundred rolls of toilet paper and
a seal-a-meal, as they were on the side on which she lay (see wreck pix in
the gallery for a better idea). No floorboards, and very little of anything
else got wet.

She towed home on her own bottom, with her own rudder (albiet a bit sticky
to starboard, due to the separated skin), and her own bilge pumps easily
kept up with the only flow, from around the core of a transducer who's
plastic mushroom had been popped off in the pounding. If it had happened to
have been bronze, we'd have had NO water in the boat...

Nice try on the slam, though :{))

About to climb on a plane tomorrow at ohdarkthirty, and all but the
injectors are removed and ready to pack. Off to defrost the freezer...

L8R

Skip

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Flying Pig wrote:

Nice try on the slam, though :{))

About to climb on a plane tomorrow at ohdarkthirty, and all but the
injectors are removed and ready to pack. Off to defrost the freezer...

L8R

Skip


Skip,

You collect the whacks no doubt. But I will say this - and you've
heard it more than once - YOU are living the sailor's dream, and
everyone else is only talking a good story....

Fair breezes

Brian W

On Dec 16, 9:50*am, "Flying Pig" wrote:
Hi, Bob, and list,



wires in your bilge??????

Cuz that's how it gets where it needs to go. *


WTF ? ? ? ? ? ?

ugggggg.


You didn't read the rest of
it, natch, cuz it didn't suit your bashing. *Some folks think of bilge as
the very bottom of the boat. *I didn't - if I'm incorrect, my bad. *Tell me
what else to call it...

what ar eyou talking about skip?



Bilge..... I think of it as bull****. as in "Skip, your comments are
bilge."

Bob

Flying Pig wrote:
/snip/
The problem is that the post itself is corroded/pitted. That not only lets
water through, but wears on the packing.
/snip/

Skip


There ARE people who would send off for a sheet of stainless feeler
stock, and cut a rectangle to wrap the rudder post with the smallest
possible weeper gap in the seal section, and having filled the sealing
area pits with loaded epoxy, would glue the wrapper round it.

Of course, *I* would never do any jury-rig like that!

Brian w

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:48:43 -0600, brian whatcott
wrote:

There ARE people who would send off for a sheet of stainless feeler
stock, and cut a rectangle to wrap the rudder post with the smallest
possible weeper gap in the seal section, and having filled the sealing
area pits with loaded epoxy, would glue the wrapper round it.

On my old Cal-34 I used to wrap the rudder post with a layer or two of
heavy duty mylar sheet, goop it all up with water pump grease and
reinstall. It was usually good for a couple of years.