[Public-List] Launching 148

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On my shaft I have a anode bolted just in front of the stuffing box as
well as a dimpled shaft.

John Boor
MAHSEER #380

> Roger,
>
> That will make an entertaining chapter the your memoirs, no doubt!
>
> That slipped shaft/rudder jam scenario is why I drilled dimples in the
> shaft for the safety-wired setscrews and have a worm-drive hose clamp
> permanently installed on the shaft just in front of the stuffing box. The
> shaft/coupling joint seems to be the weakest point in the system
> transmitting reverse thrust loading to the hull. And no situation, much
> less one bad enough to require backing down hard, will be much improved by
> having the shaft part ways with the rest of the boat.
>
> I'm curious about what measures or precautions others have used.
>
> Rick Leach
> Sugar Magnolia, #121
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