When I bought my 1994 MKII two years ago it had a leaking shaft seal. The seal did not use packing but was a single seal like a grease seal on an axle. To replace this seal you must disconnect the coupling and remove it from the drive shaft. Since the seal had been leaking salt water for years the coupling was a rusted mess and was fused to the shaft. The coupling and shaft had to be cut and replaced and a new dripless shaft seal installed. This was last year.
The design of the bilge in my C30 is such that water remains in the upper engine bilge until it is several inches deep at which time it can overflow into the lower main bilge. This results in the bottom of the engine oil pan being bathed in whatever liquid is leaking into the bilge. In my case it was salt water and this year the bottom of the oil pan rusted through and began leaking oil into the bilge. The whole back of the engine and the transmission were rusted from the shaft slinging salt water around and the shift and throttle cables were hard to use. So I had the motor pulled. The motor mounts had to be cut off to remove the engine. So now I have new cables, electric fuel pump, heat exchanger, oil pan and motor mounts and the engine is freshly painted and looks new.
The keel has always had the "smile" and I have tried two years in a row to grind out the joint and seal it with a bead of 5200 but it never lasts. Since I was doing the motor I had the yard drop the keel and repair it the right way. The keel stub was really ugly with big chunks of fiberglass and/or fairing compoung missing. It had to be ground out and reglassed, then the keel was reinstalled with nine tubes of 5200 in the joint and new nuts and washers.
Since they couldn't drop the keel with the mast up I had that pulled too. Whiile it was down I replaced all of the lights The yard showed me a Shaeffer 1100 furler that they were installing on another C30 and compared it to the 20 year old Hood furler that I had. The Shaeffer spins like a turbine while my hood is hard to turn at all so since I was doing all of the other work I replaced the forestay and installed the Shaeffer.
I hope I get the boat in the water soon before I go broke. I bought the boat cheap but I'm certainly catching up.
The design of the bilge in my C30 is such that water remains in the upper engine bilge until it is several inches deep at which time it can overflow into the lower main bilge. This results in the bottom of the engine oil pan being bathed in whatever liquid is leaking into the bilge. In my case it was salt water and this year the bottom of the oil pan rusted through and began leaking oil into the bilge. The whole back of the engine and the transmission were rusted from the shaft slinging salt water around and the shift and throttle cables were hard to use. So I had the motor pulled. The motor mounts had to be cut off to remove the engine. So now I have new cables, electric fuel pump, heat exchanger, oil pan and motor mounts and the engine is freshly painted and looks new.
The keel has always had the "smile" and I have tried two years in a row to grind out the joint and seal it with a bead of 5200 but it never lasts. Since I was doing the motor I had the yard drop the keel and repair it the right way. The keel stub was really ugly with big chunks of fiberglass and/or fairing compoung missing. It had to be ground out and reglassed, then the keel was reinstalled with nine tubes of 5200 in the joint and new nuts and washers.
Since they couldn't drop the keel with the mast up I had that pulled too. Whiile it was down I replaced all of the lights The yard showed me a Shaeffer 1100 furler that they were installing on another C30 and compared it to the 20 year old Hood furler that I had. The Shaeffer spins like a turbine while my hood is hard to turn at all so since I was doing all of the other work I replaced the forestay and installed the Shaeffer.
I hope I get the boat in the water soon before I go broke. I bought the boat cheap but I'm certainly catching up.
