On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 02:40:59PM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
>
> The sea-chest idea Ben described is wonderful. I have even seen such a
> device placed over the prop on a motor boat to facilitate removing a fouled
> line from the propeller.
Oh, right - a lot of Oregon commercial fishermen in small boats use
that. So do Newfoundland fishermen (or so I've been told.) I admire the
heck out of that setup: I got to watch one of those boys replace his
stuffing box while the boat was in the water. He pulled out the shaft,
immediately following it with a rag which he used to plug off the pipe,
unscrewed the stuffing box, put the new one on and packed it, and then
fed the shaft back in, using it to push the rag out. Talk about simple
and impressive...
That, and the setup that you have for your prop (variable pitch) would
be my ideal, nearly fool-proof power output configuration. There are
some *really* good, right ways to do most things on a boat... heck,
we've been working at it for a lot of centuries now, so it's not
surprising that we have some good answers. :)
Ben
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