Re: I'm an owner! 1975 Islander 22
Here's where we are tonight:
SWMBO has been out of town all week, so yesterday I put the kids to work cleaning and scrubbing the household hull in anticipation of her return.
Today was all about cleaning up the boatyard: the backyard of my former residence - I'm still an owner and my old roommate still lives there. He's getting married in October and they're going to buy me out and stay there (happily ever after). My wedding present to them is to get my crap out of their yard. I sorted through the original parts removed from the boat and deciding what to toss and what to keep. Cleaned up the original doghouse and rear seats and put 'em back in the boat - need the doghouse to use as a template for building a new one, and the rear seats I'm gonna keep the frames and make new cushions for them over the winter (course, I said that last winter didn't I?).
Does anyone wants the seat frames from the front seats? The wood seat backs and cushions are rotten but if you were trying to go all original, these would sure help. Free fer nuthin if you come get 'em soon - they're in a trailer waiting to be hauled to dump as I type this. The original rusty, pitted and leaking fuel tanks also - free for the taking!
Then spent the rest of the day reading up on how to tell if your prop is spun. Had two moments during Thursday's sea trial when the motor RPM's suddenly screamed while the boat slowed down, brought the throttle down immediately and got power back. Happened twice and only after I got above 30 mph. I thought it popped out of gear and I had more cable adjusting to do, but the more I read, these babies don't pop out of gear at high thrust. The symptoms seem to fit the idea that the prop spun. The boat came with a spare prop so I could always swap 'em out and see what happens, but who's to say the spare prop is good? They say draw a line on the prop housing and the hub, get the symptom to happen again, then look to see if the lines are in different places - makes perfect, but looking at my prop I don't know which two parts to draw on.
Any of you guys wanna scribble on a photo of a prop to tell me where to draw this line?
*Maybe* planning to take the wife and kids out for a short ride tomorrow, being Labor Day and all.
Hey BTW - I'm surprised no one has commented on the boats name? I sorta accidentally let it slip Thursday night, so hear it is if you missed it:
The AmyAble
My wife's name is Amy, she's extremely able (and so am I - hell, look at all I've done with this freakin boat!) and most people seem to agree that we're quite "amiable" people....
