Hi everyone,

On Saturday morning we left shoreham in my 19ft cabin cruiser for
Littlehampton, to take a look at the Regatta and then cruise up river for a
quiet weekend.

However, after a lovely journey whilst the sun was rising, we entered
littlehampton harbour at low tide. Whilst traveling up the centre of the
river Arun, we hit an unmarked, rock/shingle bank in the centre of the
river.

My 20hp Chrysler moaned as the propeller was jammed and then started to rev
very quickly.

I stopped the engine and dropped anchor, and lifted the prop out of the
water, only to find that there was no longer drive getting from the engine
to the prop.

I have not dismantled the leg yet (my boat is still stranded in
Littlehampton until I can get her back to Shoreham - need to arrange a tow
- somehow) but could anyone advise me on the likelyhood of actually having
trashed the gearbox (as opposed to just having popped the linkage off) and
if so, am I likely to be able to economically fix this?

Does anyone have parts for this engine for spares? Alternatively, do you
know of a good marine breakers that may be able to help with this??

I'm on a bit of a tight budget and this has the potential to ruin the rest
of the boating season for me :-( .

Thanks in advance.


Simon

M.V. Iona - Shoreham

Oh dear.

I stopped the engine and dropped anchor, and lifted the prop out of the
water, only to find that there was no longer drive getting from the engine
to the prop.

I don't know your particular engine but whenever I've done this or
heard of someone else doing it, it has always been the drive pin.
This, as I recall, is designed to fail before any really expensive
bits are damaged.

Hope this is what's happened in your case.

Lindsay

Lindsay - UK wrote:

Oh dear.

I stopped the engine and dropped anchor, and lifted the prop out of the
water, only to find that there was no longer drive getting from the engine
to the prop.

I don't know your particular engine but whenever I've done this or
heard of someone else doing it, it has always been the drive pin.
This, as I recall, is designed to fail before any really expensive
bits are damaged.

Hope this is what's happened in your case.

Lindsay


Ahh, thanks for your input, will check that.

Is the drive pin the split pin that is used to hold the prop on??

This pin still appears intact.

Or am I looking at the wrong pin?

Simon

Let's hope it is the drive/shear pin then.

Thanks for your advice everyone.

Have fun

Simon

Hi all,


Again, thanks to all who replied to this earlier.

Just thought you may like to know, I checked the shear pin and it is intact,
leaving a problem in the gearbox as the only possiblity as i've checked
everything else and had several conversations with a local outboard
engineer :-/

So, it's an expensive mistake - my old engine is un-economical to repair
unless I can find a second hand gearbox unit.


Don't suppose anyone has got an old Chrysley 20 breaking for spares?


Have fun all


Simon

Thought I saw one for sale on E-Bay

Dave


"rune" wrote in message
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Hi all,


Again, thanks to all who replied to this earlier.

Just thought you may like to know, I checked the shear pin and it is
intact,
leaving a problem in the gearbox as the only possiblity as i've checked
everything else and had several conversations with a local outboard
engineer :-/

So, it's an expensive mistake - my old engine is un-economical to repair
unless I can find a second hand gearbox unit.


Don't suppose anyone has got an old Chrysley 20 breaking for spares?


Have fun all


Simon