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.

Thursday, December 30, 2010

New Prop Shaft


Well guess what... I believe we found the source of the motor vibrations.. In the process of re-packing the stuffing box, the prop shaft was removed. With the shaft out of the boat, it was easy to see that it was bent. A new shaft was installed, new stuffing box and zincs were added.

Now if the weather would cooperate, I can reconnect the motor and get her back in the water.
Posted by beachbumlou

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