Can Archimedes help save our race boat?
After a 2 year refit on the hard stand in Fiji, transforming our open 66 into a family cruiser, we are finally floating again and now find ourselves fixing things underwater!
A few weeks ago our gearbox stopped working - leaving us engine-less just as we were about to enter a reef pass and the night before a low pressure system was coming through • What else could go wro...
In our previous video • The freediving mechani... we investigated down below only to find that our hopes of there being a simple problem such as propeller blades being blocked by a rope or piece of wood dashed. Our second best hope was that the issue is with the bronze propeller body, and that its interior is corroded and no longer grips the stainless steel shaft of the sail drive.
If instead the problem is with the interior of the sail drive, especially the lower part, this has the potential for being a major issue for us, as it’s almost impossible to haul out again here in Fiji, due to the effort and expense involved in heeling our boat over to reduce our nearly 5 metre draft to enter channel into the marina • Extreme haul-outs! How...
But before we worry too much about this, the next step is to remove the propeller and check the interior of the body. To do this we attached an old piece of sail to the underneath of the boat to be sure not to lose any pieces! As due to a lack of scuba equipment, this job was going to be tackled by free diving
In the last video we’d taken the propeller blades off, so next up, it’s time to take off the body of the propeller...
The part we are looking for is called vibration damper Volvo part number 872809. Our engine is a Volvo MD2040-c and our saildrive is 120s-d
If anyone has any leads for a cheap solution to replace this part, we'd be very grateful thanks :)
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Caio! We are Timo and Jo, an Italian and English couple with countless ocean miles under our belts. We're refitting an ex Vendée Globe Open 60 race boat originally designed & built & raced by famous Hungarian sailor Nándor Fa. He competed in her in the 1992 Vendée Globe (round the world single handed race known as “the Everest of the seas”), finishing 5th, becoming the first non-frenchman to finish.
We are currently in Fiji giving this old gladiator a new lease on life, transforming her from an ex race boat to a performance family cruiser, which we'll need to make both dog and baby proof! We’re planning to set sail again in Oct 2022, so with limited time&money we have plenty of challenges ahead to turn our dreams into reality&get back on the water!
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