REPLACING THE STERN TUBE - PART 1

We undertake some major surgery on the hull of Black Sheep. There had been a small leak coming from the stern. The inboard end of the original stern tube was thin walled stainless steel so I decided to get on and remove it. This required cutting a large hole in the side of the hull.
As you'll see - the stainless steel really hadn't faired well over the years so I was glad I did.
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[@s.vcorazon7162]

Looks like I will be doing this over next week. just slipped my 1971 Luders 33 today as found water dripping from the stern shaft after a sail. Have had this leak for a while and not been able to pin point it till today. Cheers from Adelaide Australia

[@seaschool_]

Good luck. If it's a different type of construction you can try boring it out from the stern - but this requires some specialist kit.

[@erics5757]

I have that same miter saw. Inherited from my Grandpa. It’s so low dust lol

[@fabianoslack4269]

I have an allegro 27. The stern tube seems to be made out of two tubes placed one in front of the another. The outer tube is where the cutlass bearing is inserted to. And the other is where the sealing shaft is attached to. I noticed a leakage in between these two tubes. Im thinking if there is another way to fill epoxy in the leaking point other than to replace like you did. If someone fixed thet in an allegro 27 using other ways instead of replacing the tube like he did , please let me know how it was. Thank you for this video!

[@mynextketchfrontier6351]

Dude when is the next clip I went to the site nd finito no see anything lol great work you do thnx

[@seaschool_]

The next video in this series is available to our members only I’m afraid.