On the hard

Post date: Jan 22, 2012 8:54:44 PM

Getting a bottom job. It's been 8! years since my last and amazing how well it held up. Cold water is good. So of course the cutlass bearing needed replacing, and so the prop shaft comes out, so the motor gets removed...and now I'm re-building the entire mechanical assembly. Replacing my "thrust" bearing with a stainless steel (although the old steel one looks amazing good), doing a better job on the stringers and plate the motor mounts to, etc.

New controller handles higher amp draw than my old one - can cruise at 65amps now even without the fan. I'm going to lower the pitch on my prop since I can go way over max amps (current 13x13 now hoping to get to 13x11)

Batteries are holding up pretty well now that I've got independent 12V charging on each one (or pair of parallels to be more accurate). My newest is now over 2 years old. Bad news is I can't trade them back to Walmart for new ones anymore (I think they are on to me anyway...)