[alberg30] Re: atomic 4 & stuff

[stephen sousa]

From: "stephen sousa" <stephen=sousa%eng%emchop1 at fishbowl02.lss.emc.com>

Frank and Fellow Alberg owners:

Frank in the retrofit of # 114 (Carina Vela), we installed a P.S.S. 
dripless stuffing box while the motor was removed from the boat. This 
particular application lends itself to one adjustment and last for many 
years in speaking with other boat owners that have installed the same 
system. I can lean over the Yanmar 13 h.p. diesel and make the adjustment 
(two allen set screws). When you are ready to rewire your Alberg send me an 
e-mail or review Chris Sousa's Alberg Home Page which speaks to the methods 
used on #114.

Cheers,
Stephen
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From: <FINNUS505 at aol.com>, on 6/4/98 4:36 PM:
From: <FINNUS505 at aol.com>

Hi Frank!

Glad to know someone is as busy as I am!

Didn't know that A30's HAVE  a tiller stuffing box! I've been back there, 
and
didn't see one on my boat!  My Dad had an Islander 32 once, and when he
changed from tiller to Edson wheel steering, he had to have a rudder post
stuffing box put in so the quadrant could fit beneath the cockpit sole. One 
of
the few jobs he did not do himself, the 'installer' did not attach the 
bronze
stuffing box to the stub of the rudder tube well enough, and the boat 
nearly
sank when launched, when the seam between the stuffing box and rudder tube 
let
go!

As for your access through the cockpit locker to get to the area beneath 
the
cockpit sole, you might consider what I have done.

I bought a 14x 16" Bomar plastic access hatch, and installed it in the 
cockpit
sole, just aft of the scuppers. Gives EXCELLENT access to stuffing box,
seacocks and hoses for scuppers, and for my volvo, the water pump, which 
was
just about inaccesible from the cabin.

There were two problems I discovered, though. One is that with the 
vibration
of cutting out the hole for the panel with a Milwaukee Sawzall, I got a 
small
amount of delamination between the masonite core and one of the glass 
layers.
I countered that by infusing thinnned epoxy (Git Rot) into the split, and
bolting a beam athwartships beneath the cockpit sole, just aft of the 
panel.
The second problem is that the Bomar hatch gives a little underfoot, and 
while
I do not think it would break under normal body weight, I was worried that 
if
someone (foolishly) jumped into the cockpit and landed right on the panel,
there might be a problem. I was going to make a teak cockpit grating for 
the
boat anyway, so I'll just make it a little stronger, so that it will bear 
any
weight that might be put on it.

Even given these two problems, I would still do the project. Getting such 
easy
access to the stuffing box and the back of my engine is worth it.

Good Luck, Frank. Keep me posted!

Lee Trachtenberg

Stargazer #255, 1967

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