Saturday 27 July 2019

New Motor Jacker Installed

Provisional support for the motor shaft
During the first test drives last year turns out that the Motor mount bracket was to weak. The 500 mm long plank of 22 mm thickness which has been used as mount bracket, twisted dangerously already at 2 kW motor power.



  
Support installed to the motor shaft


Bracket for the new motor jacker
New motor jacker installed


Motor in lifted position


Saturday 20 July 2019

Antifouling


Last year I tried to find out what is happen if the underwater hull is not antifouling coated. The result is showed in the post of November 11th.
EPIFANES Epoxy-HB-Coat of the under water hull prepared for antifouling coating

Pinting the first of two layers EPIFANES Interim-Coat

Pinting the first of two layers AWN Hard-Antifouling



Antifouling coating finished