[C38] Cutlass Bearing Strut Faring

[Phil Gay]

Marc,

 

One thing that hasn’t been noted is that you apparently have a shoal draft C38.  I have never examined the prop shaft on a shoal draft version and so your photo was very interesting to me.  Tom Troncalli owned a shoal draft C38 BTW.  

 

I would think that you don’t have a structural problem if your shaft is firmly attached to the boat.  However, from a water intrusion point of view, I would want to have the area repaired as soon as practical.  We don’t think of fiberglass as being able to soak up water, but it does to some extent.  So the glass needs to be thoroughly dried before the area is repaired and bottom painted.

 

Phil Gay

C38 049 (deep draft) Que Linda

Everett, WA

 

From: listserve-bounces at catalina38.org [mailto:listserve-bounces at catalina38.org] On Behalf Of Marc Stewart
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2010 9:22 PM
To: Catalina 38 Listserve
Subject: Re: [C38] Cutlass Bearing Strut Faring

 

Here is a picture - that shows not the crack but a side view of the faring that's "loose."  The loose section lies between the aft egg zinc and the leading end of the propeller assembly above (below in this pix) the visible cutlass bearing.  No, the boat's not upside down!




Marc Stewart

mstewart at sounddsl.com

 

On Nov 11, 2010, at 9:11 PM, Marc Stewart wrote:





Greetings,

I just hauled Palancar for biannual bottom work and discovered that the fiberglas faring that envelopes the strut that extends from the cutlass bearing up into the hull is split apart along the trailing edge and "wiggly."  Fortunately the bronze strut itself is firm.  Are any of you in the know:  is this a cosmetic thing that can wait, or is it a "gotta fixit now?"   And do you know what kind of Pandora's box it is likely to be?  The yard sent me an estimate for a cosmetic kind of repair....

Thanks, Marc


Marc Stewart

mstewart at sounddsl.com

 

_______________________________________________

Listserve mailing list

Listserve at catalina38.org

http://catalina38.org/mailman/listinfo/listserve_catalina38.org

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://catalina38.org/pipermail/listserve_catalina38.org/attachments/20101112/32fc97c5/attachment-0001.htm>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.jpg
Type: image/jpeg
Size: 88769 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://catalina38.org/pipermail/listserve_catalina38.org/attachments/20101112/32fc97c5/attachment-0001.jpg>