Ok so this blog section is more about boat building rather than engines. Some of this I now about in theory from reading all those boat magazines and build your own boat books when I was younger. So here’s how this part is meant to look in a traditional wooden boat or a plywood speedboat.… Continue reading Engine – Part 6 Drive shaft, propeller and shaft seals. Followed by installing the engine!
Month: August 2019
Engine part 5 – Not about the engine but needed doing before it goes back in. – Galvanic protection and lightning safety.
Lots of people have written about whether or not you need galvanic protection for metalwork in contact with water. There are plenty of boat books which try to describe the corrosion problem and university level chemistry education does not give me any particularly different slant on that. What I do have though is some electrical… Continue reading Engine part 5 – Not about the engine but needed doing before it goes back in. – Galvanic protection and lightning safety.