Love the Perkins, my previous boat ran 4.108 . Finding parts has a problem. But found rebuilt kits and that keep me going. Got to be handy when running a Perkins.
I remember my Dad , every time I work on the engine. The day he saw my first car , a 1973 Volkswagen Type 3 fast back that I bought for 300.00 he says...
( This is great , I see you are now committed to learn mechanics ) Lol .
We are asking $500 for it and the velvet drive gearbox locally. I was hoping that was cheap enough that someone would come take it away, but nobody came out of the woodwork and I needed it out of the cabin. and nobody. The cruising club we live next to has a manual crane we can use to get it out of the cockpit after we launch. Then hopefully someone will come take it away.
They may be nice engines, but I don’t want to deal with the complexity of an engine. Especially ann old one and all its legacy systems. It’s already a pain to clean the oil sludge it leaked into the bilge!
In its place we will have space for a couple hundred gallons of freshwater and a hot water tank.
I was happy to see that the floors are ideal for mounting the thrust and pillow bearings required for the future belted electric drives. They will take far less space and provide a much quieter experience aboard.
Now that the rudder is out I’ll get the naval architect to come by and recommend the new rudder tube location and top bearing support construction. Hopefully we can get the new tube in prior to launch. We are upping the shaft size to 3” of 2205 stainless for the new spade and might move the rudder aft a bit.
I noticed that a Peterson 44 esque skeg was added to her at some point. And I’m guessing it was to combat wandering in a seaway. The idea is we can solve that issue and increase maneuverability with a modern rudder. So we removed the glass over foam skeg that was added leading up to the steel skeg.
Notice the skeg and rudder here in the
launch photo.
Notice the swooping skeg leading up to the rudder location here. This was the launch after a refit in Portsmouth, UK I’m not sure what year.
Back to her original lines. That foam had water in it. When I hit it with a hammer it started weeping water out, it was already on its way out.
Hopefully I can get the fresh wood scarfed in and glass patches on next week.
We also need to remove the prop shaft, scarf some wood in and rebore the hole for the shaft. I plan to leave it out for the time being and glass over the hole after it’s bored.
When we are ready to put the rudder in, I’ll haul her back out and put the appendages back on. In the meanwhile, less holes under the waterline the better.
cheers,
-p