We hauled out on July 21st, hoping to “haul and hang” for an hour to pull off the old Axiom and put on the new one, but with the nagging fear in the back of our minds that we should have replaced the white metal bearing during our haul out in June.
Axiom made the new prop in just under three weeks, and UPS got it here in just five days. What an amazingly flat world.
Rainshadow has a 16 inch diameter, 12 inch pitch propeller that is specified by Camper and Nicholson for the Nic 38. It sits in an aperture, which is about 20 inches in diameter. She also has the original Perkins 4-108 with a 2:1 reduction transmission. We find there are three major problems.
We had Rainshadow hauled out for the pre-purchase survey so the surveyor could inspect the hull and rudder. This gave us a good chance to look at her bottom sides, and figure out where all…