Welcome Everyone


You are welcome to follow my efforts as I attempt to restore a 1980 Cherubini Hunter-27 sailboat and convert from diesel to Electric Propulsion.


This blog is my attempt to document the restoration of my Hunter 27 and share some of my successes and failures.


Let me start out by saying that I am in NO WAY an expert on boats or electric propulsion. Just a regular guy with a love for being out on the water and a penchant for doing things the hard way.


June 2007 - The Journey Begins!



I found this H-27 on the hard in summer of 2007. She had bad oxidation problems, a leaky fuel tank and generally was neglected. She needed a good home and A LOT of TLC.

Throwing caution to the wind, we bought the boat off eBAY.


I hope to be able to share some of my efforts, failures and successes with others wishing to dump their old ICE's in favor of cleaner, quieter electric propulsion.


At the bottom of this page is a slideshow with a photo history of this project before I started using this 'blogger'.


Batten down the hatches, we are headed for rough seas....

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THE LATEST BLOG ENTRY APPEARS BELOW - SORTED FROM NEWEST TO OLDEST. Please click the "older posts" link to travel back in time.

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Un-Spash...

OK, after some fiddling around with the motor and prop shaft, the stuffing box began leaking again. This time I could not stop the flow.


As a total bass-ackwards fix, I got a couple thick plastic bags and covered the shaft to stop the water from streaming in. I used three heavy duty cable ties to secure the bags around the stuffing box. This seemed to hold - until we can get her back out of the water.





We hauled the boat today and will commence trying to rerpair or replace the stuffing box. Hopefully we can get this done soon and get back to testing the motor. We missed some REALLY nice fall sailing days...

Oh Well... How many days till spring???
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Project Photos - 2007-2010