Quote: "We are in
Canada in the Pacific North West."
We don't have a CANADIAN "Pacific North West" We have
British Columbia consisting, essentially, of "The Lower Mainland", "Vancouver Island" and "The Interior". On the "Lower Mainland" and on
Vancouver Island, cutless bearings are a dime a dozen, and they come in all different internal and external diameters. You buy them too long for your bracket and trim them to length. They are called "cutless" because they do not get "cut" (abraded) when grit gets into them. The grooves in them cause grit to be washed right out again.
On the Lower Mainland, one chandler that can supply one is Martin
Marine in North
Vancouver. Osborne Propellers, also in NV, should also be able to supply. On Vancouver Island, Harbour Chandlers in Nanaimo can supply. Further up "the Island" in Comox, Campbell River, and Port Hardy there are chandlers that cater to
commercial vessels mainly, but they can order one in for you if you give them your measurements.
Provide the chandler with the diameter of your prop shaft. Use a vernier caliber to measure it just aft of the cutless bearing. The two pointy bits sticking up off the scale are used for taking INTERNAL measurements. Offer them up to the bracket and take the measurement twixt where
bronze meets plastic on one side of the shaft to the same place diametrically opposite on the bracket. That's your OUTside diameter of the cutless bearing. You can read a vernier caliper to 1/10th of a inch which is good enuff for this purpose.
If the pointy bits on your vernier caliper won't reach high enuff, because the shaft interferes, use a plain caliper to take the distance between the two point described above, then use the vernier caliper to take the measurement twixt the "legs" of the caliper.
TP