"Denis Marier" wrote in message
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Thanks for the lecture.
Now I know that it can be done while the boat is in the water.
However, I prefer to do it before launching the boat.

Not as "Easy as pie!" may be for you it is.
However, for me, it implies to have a good back, good knees
and to move
quickly without thinking and no hesitation about it. A good
way to acquire
this skill would be to practice drilling like in the navy.
One year one of
my retired navy friend came over with his tools. In no time
he had
everything done. One of the tool I would like to get my hand
on is made
like a flexible corkscrew. It is used to remove the packing.
Maybe some
readers have some good ideas to make one. The one I have seen
come in
different sizes and shapes.

I used a machinists scribe to pick out the old packing. Mute
point now as when I repowered the boat, we went to the PSS.

Leanne