Newporter 40 Together

a beautiful boat should sail forever.

Bob mitchell's Blog – April 2011 Archive (4)

Hull 113, aka WILSON, rebuild update

         Engine block hunting turned about to be more of a challenge than expected. After the decision was made to go back to the original Ford Osco Diesel 172 (1967) instead of the Ford Osco Diesel 192 (cylinder walls were gone) that had been put in in 1977 - because the 192 was a 172 block, which in my opinion, was overbored, I started with a 172 block from Russel Tractor parts in Scottsboro, Alabama, for $500.  However, it was not tapped for an engine balancer. But my diesel guru Jerry of…

Continue

Added by bob mitchell on April 19, 2011 at 7:00pm — No Comments

SPRING TRIP TO HANG OUT WITH CAPTAIN CLYDE

     In March Deb and I took a trip up the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake to Lewes, a very cool old town on the Delaware Bay, where we caught the ferry across the Delaware Bay to Cape May, New Jersy. At that point we weren't far from the home ground of Captain Clyde Phillips and the Dorchester Shipyard. Clyde, of course, worked at the Dorchester Shipyard building that most famous and loved (or cursed?) of all boats, the Newporter 40 (if you want more info there are articles by and about…

Continue

Added by bob mitchell on April 16, 2011 at 9:30pm — 4 Comments

SHAFT COUPLING TO PROP DETAILS, PART 2

Clyde caught this cutlass bearing intake in one of the photos of the deadwood repair, and emailed me back.

 

Bob,
 
Very interesting pictures—you should keep the camera.  I have isolated a detail in one of them that you should take an interest in.  The two red arrows point to the remains of a plastic tube that needs replacing after…
Continue

Added by bob mitchell on April 11, 2011 at 6:30am — No Comments

SHAFT COUPLING TO PROP DETAILS

        While rebuilding the apron and upper layers of deadwood at the aft end of the boat I had the opportunity to disassemble the propeller/shaft system. Captain Clyde answered numerous questions I had, so he deserves credit beyond just the specific quotes of his that are included. The first two photos show the shaft coupling which connects to the transmission coupling, and next the stuffing box (aka. packing gland) with the heavy, but flexible, hose making it a "flexible stuffing box" (as…

Continue

Added by bob mitchell on April 10, 2011 at 9:30am — No Comments

            LINKS ===============

THE ROSTER

Muf, our Keeper of the Roster, has updated it.  But he still needs information on boats out there that he doesn't have, like new owners, old owners, where any of the boats are.  We don't post the roster on the web site, it is only sent to owners.  Please send him anything you might have, or call him at:      

gmuf48@aol.com   

909 561 4245

===============

Captain Clyde's Newporter  sites:

newporters.blogspot.com

and  

newporter.ning.com

The Ning site has been given a reprieve.   I have  transferred my Ning site to the blogspot site and will leave it there. I am keeping my Ning site open as a home for my photos and drawings.

Many of my photos there do not relate to Newporters, but a search through my collection may prove useful for your studies.

My drawings are not accurate in many respects as a result of the PAINT program used to draw them, There is no accurate scale and at best they are only useful to indicate some specific detail.  Some are inaccurate because of my poor memory.  Use them to help you think, not as a detailed presentation of the subject matter.

If any of you want to start a web site I suggest you remember what has happened to both my Ning site and this site (which is a Ning site) and remember that my Blogspot site is free and Blogspot's owner (Google) has promised to keep it that way.

 

Clyde's email:

camgphil@msn.com 

Put 'Newporter' on Subject Line.  Email is the best way to contact me.  I do not regularly look at this site or its messaging system.  Email will get to me post-haste. 

===============

© 2024   Created by bob mitchell.   Powered by

Report an Issue  |  Terms of Service