First I wanted to share a nice email we got from the chap who bought the Island Packet 27 from us in the spring:
Hi John
Hopefully you are back to being normal. We had a good season and I made some progress on the teak and other things. We hope you have a great fall.
Regards
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Almost the whole day yesterday was devoted to boat moving and hauling.
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On this boat, we treated the props last year with Pettit zinc spray. As you can see they fared a lot better than the shafts did!
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This guy ran into some rocks perhaps (not around here!). Fortunately there is a lot of beef at the stem of a Grand Banks so it shouldn’t be a bad repair. I wonder it this guy had a sudden stop?
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This boat also had the same paint on the bottom as it did on the trim tabs with totally different results. I will share this one with the paint rep to see if there is something different we should be doing.
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We did pull the injectors off a CAT that was running a bit rough and found that most of them were shot. If your engine is not running a smooth as it should and you haven’t done any injector servicing for a while it would behoove you to pull the injectors and have them tested.