Prop shaft bearing saga
Dec 23, 2021
3 minutes
The survey report at purchase of my Vancouver 38P reported excessive play in the cutless bearing of the prop shaft. When Wild Bird was ashore in a foreign port, where labour was supposedly cheap, we took the opportunity to have it replaced. I assumed this would be completed in a day, but the following saga reveals this proved to be optimistic.
The yard outsourced the job to a local mechanic,
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