while i was doing our power skiff the shaft for the other skiff came in so he just hired some guy that he thought knew what he was doing, well he was wrong. after he had finished we went over and checked it all out. for starters the rudder was at hard to port while the steering ram as about center the rudder post was not sealed he didnt set the carter key on the shaft correctly and it was not on straight. so we had to pull everything back off and found that the bolts holding the rudder post on were crossthreaded. so we had to cut those off. then when pulling the prop back off we managed to ding the threads up on the shaft so we had to file those smooth enough to allow the nut to go back on so after that we reseated the prop back on correctly, realigned the rudder and sealed the post up correctly and also replaced the bolts holding it in place.

so total hours for this one was 30hrs give or take

total hours : 121 hrs.

after i finished with the steering on our seiner i moved back to my power skiff project. this envloved running new wires for the starter and accsorys, putting in a battery switch,  installing a switch panel, installing a new tachometer,change belts, and cleaning and painting the engine. i started by running all the new wires to the blige pump, gps, hot wire to the starter ( old one was rubbing on an edge. re ran the new one a different route.) then removed all the old wires and connected the new ones with butt connecters and heat shrink. then installed a battery shut off switch.( it never had one before.). Then cut out a spot on the steering console for a waterproof switch board. that job took about 10 hours. the tachometer was a little difficult because it was a mechanical gauge finding a replacement was the most time consuming part beacuse it required about six trips to tricounty to get the right kind of guage and right angle drive set up. that one took about 7 hours. after that changed out the two belts, removed the airboxes for cleaning and prepped the engine for painting which took about 6 hours including the painting. did some varuous welding around the hull including new zincs, a couple of broken handles, and a little hanger for the beard. which was an exta 8 hours.

total hours for job: 31

total hours after this: 96

sorry about the gap in between blogs but anyways after we got the engine installed we sent the prop sent in to be re pitched and and new shaft to be made because the old one was slightly bent. which was going to take about 2 weeks.

while that was being done i switched to finish the autopilot on our seiner and reinstall that uni block we had worked on in class. they decided that they wanted to replace our Wagner autopilot with a new comnav system. the new comnav was 12v instead of 32v like the Wagner was. so it required a new distribution box, rudder follower, head unit, new actuators installed on the uni body, and new wires ran to the various components. it took about 4 hours to run wiring from the stern to the box in the bow for the rudder follower. then i replaced the 32v actuators(actually they were 110v solenoids on the actuators but i guess that's what they used to for 32v caused they didn't actually make 32v solenoids) on the uni block with new 12v vickers actuators and solenoids and ran 14 gauge wire from the distribution box in the top house to solenoids. and bled the system. which took about 6 hours. the next step was to wire in the rudder follower, the two rudder indictors, jog sticks, the actutors and then hook it up to the head unit and run the setup on it which took about 8 hours

total hours for job: 18 hrs

total as of 6/24/13: 65 hrs.