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Old 24-06-2017, 22:46   #1
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Frankly! Your most sucking work onboard??

I open up competition with servicing the pushpit, which was disassembled, reinforced, put back in place

A SUMMA OF DISREGARD for post-sale service, on the side of NA design and ship-builder execution (Who the Hell would care!?)

Execution:
Lifting the rails, upon which pushpit sits (easy..)
Disconnecting nav lights (easy..)
Unscrew bolts after 20+ years
Entering head-down into the anchor stowage (of a minimal human size, even on a 54' footer, in order to reach bolts placed 2' afore).
Crunching shoulders, stopping breath, bumping head, scratching skin all around
Embellish the deck top with a new silicon bedding upon which to graciously sit a 30pound pushpit of SS, some 3' long, without smearing around (yes, l did smear around)
Note: placing the pushpit back involves centering nr.4 SS pipe-on-pipe joint connections, with a wire cable inside, already passed thru the deck.... (hihihi, so funny, as a little misalignment stops the cord from passing... you earn by the inches
Got in new (larger, M8 bolts), with Sika beneath the head, , and atop (double) washers (much fun, they slide on each other)
Cut some washers with flex, as they collide onto the hull! SS gets red hot...
Using ratchet wrench, crown wrench, and Pipe wrench (#13) depending on accessibility, and physical room to manoeuvre... in some cases just a 15° rotation was allowed
It all with black hands (no gloves, cant touch things well otherwise, blindly at times....) and with feet positioned 3' upon my head, upon a comfy windlass, the head pierced inside that out-hole.

Getting in/out was a Painful 60sec manoeuvre Houdini-wise, with little learning curve!
Shackles and other fittings help you in getting things worse and scratching hands, well thought after impediments.

Help from a 2nd person was an absolute necessity, to fasten the bolt head when turning the nuts tight (15° a turn)

Today, thinner wash for my precious tools...


Thank to all shipyards, as I think that no modern ****.....g boat is designed any better

OK. Competition for the most miserable work on/below deck is open. Please join in with a smile
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Old 24-06-2017, 23:22   #2
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Re: Frankly! Your most sucking work onboard??

Read pit-hole instead of out-hole, please
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Old 25-06-2017, 00:09   #3
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Re: Frankly! Your most sucking work onboard??

onboard, in the bilges winter maintanance in the boatyard when it is -5C outside!
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Old 25-06-2017, 00:49   #4
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Re: Frankly! Your most sucking work onboard??

I detest having to dive and scrape the prop every two months. Have been doing it for years, now pay someone else.

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Old 25-06-2017, 02:45   #5
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Re: Frankly! Your most sucking work onboard??

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I detest having to dive and scrape the prop every two months. Have been doing it for years, now pay someone else.

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Yap, l see... you have sharks around...

(Yet, folding propellers suck and cut... l use heavy gloves and a flexible scraper, linked to a floating line for retrieval)

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Old 25-06-2017, 04:31   #6
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Re: Frankly! Your most sucking work onboard??

Epoxy work overhead. I always manage to get it in my hair.

Caulking of any kind as it always ends up with more on me and me not knowing if I got enough in the joint. Some of that is easier since I discovered Butyl tape by Mainesail.

Deck caulking is always a challenge. I always manage to stick my pawl or foot in a perfectly laid seam, not to mention it's on me.

The nastiest job, worse than the head was whilst we were removing rotted ply from behind the stove. Impregnated with diesel and old growth mold.

Come on everyone, admit owning and working on boats is FUN!!
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Old 25-06-2017, 08:24   #7
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Working aloft, always convinced the boat is going to fall over. Even tried a man basket, same thing the base just looks too small from the mast top.
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Old 25-06-2017, 08:28   #8
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Replacing eleven through hulls WHILE the boat is still in the water!

Done in Mooloolaba, Australia.
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Old 25-06-2017, 08:31   #9
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Re: Frankly! Your most sucking work onboard??

I just bought the boat was bringing back to Va from New England. Offshore with a crew of three women and the head backs up. While disconnecting the discharge line it exploded. Went everywhere, hit head liner, my face, my open... Yea that was bad.
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Old 25-06-2017, 08:42   #10
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Re: Frankly! Your most sucking work onboard??

Servicing / repairing the head. Drove me to install a composting head, and even though I have to empty the urine bottle and composting container now and then, it's quick and not nearly as frustrating and disgusting as the traditional marine toilet.

Disassembling the steering quadrant mount after a steering problem in Marsh Harbor was a close second. Twisted myself up like a pretzel for hours trying to get it apart.
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Old 25-06-2017, 09:08   #11
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Re: Frankly! Your most sucking work onboard??

Had to pull almost empty (ALMOST) 50 gal holding tank stb side between hull and stb engine. PHEW! Some really nasty stuff drained into the bilge and made changing out the exhaust manifold a really stinky ordeal. Luckily I was able to lay some heavy cardboard down on the base from the holding tank to lay down on. After getting used to the smell the job went pretty good. All better now.

Pulling port engine injection pump to reseal pump lying between skin of boat and water heater while trying not to loose bolts and parts in bilge was excruciatingly painful. The things we do for the love of our boats is a beautiful thing.
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Re: Frankly! Your most sucking work onboard??

Why in the world would you use silicone?
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Re: Frankly! Your most sucking work onboard??

Removing lift pump on 4.236 Perkins. Had to use inspection mirror and headlamp.

Hardest thing was learning to use a combination wrench in mirror image.
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Grinding fiberglass.
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Joker valves on a Marine Elegance, nothing elegant about it.


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