Faerluna;3459687 said:
Holy crap!
The CM, in the last few years, was always having some sort of issues. I think the boys are right on the money about overhauling the boat. Better to get all the work done at once rather than having little issues ping you to death.
Noting how the prop had to be repaired after hitting that reef, there very well might have been some other issues within the engine room that resulted from that as well. If there were, they didn't go after them just because the season was underway.
One other thing that stood out to me was Phil mentioning to Freddy that the boat was running so much smoother after the wheel and rudder work. Anyone who has been around larger boats, not your cousin's 22' ski boat, know that a boat with vibration issues has got problems throughout if it's been going on for awhile.
If it is the wheel running out of balance, then you translated those issues up the shaft into the stuffing box (if they have those on large ships, I don't know) and if there is no stuffing box those vibrations are going right into the power plant. You've got a host of seals, bearings, gears, and whatnot that are getting slow damage from the wheel being out of alignment.
The vibrations might have built up over time and were hardly noticed from one season to the next, or one fishing excursion to the next as the Time Bandit does other work outside of the Alaskan crab fishing seasons. CM might as well.
If so, the damage that built up might be considerable. A marine surveyor was possibly brought in to estimate the value of the ship for the estate. In that event, they might have found substantial damage from that as well as electrolytic damages within the plumbing that inevitably occur on any steel vessel not having sacrificial anodes in the proper places.
If memory serves, the CM might have tied a pot to the port shaft last season when it ran over the line. That might have been another boat though.
