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As one of those office wombles, working from home has been a lifestyle godsend. 1. I get one to two hours more sleep per day, or if I wake up early I just scroll through sites like this online until I fee like getting up to put the kettle on. 2. I no longer sit in morning and evening rush hour traffic 3. I save a heap of money on petrol and parking. 4. I don't have to listen to idle and not so idle office chatter bollocks 5. I don't have to worry about winter colds and flu that other office wombles cough and splutter throughout the whole building However, I do find a bit of resi

Well we had a great regatta until Sunday morning when a luff under genny put the rudders gudgeons in a state that saw us sit out the last 2 races. Still managed 3rd on line overall even with the 88's merged into C Division. Great winds and the 3 divisions that managed fleets had exciting racing. And a huge party Saturday night with the cup on show and guys from TeamNZ making up half the band.

The small team I manage - their productivity is outstanding when working from home. You can't eff about - the stats don't lie. However, it seems old habits die hard with the top brass. Some just can't get out of old ideals. It's all about being back in the office for them. MInd you, we have a few sailors like that, that can't accept new technology 😃

Drop number 2 off Sunday evening at AK uni and pick up Thursday evening. Often wonder down the through Queen st and surrounding areas and think why would anyone want a business in Downtown, empty buildings some real sh*t apartment conversions,lowlifes with hand out on every corner. Why would(if i was in business)need to go to the cbd when we have lawyers/accounts etc out in the suburbs who are just as capable. Working from home I can see people being more productive without the management wombles interrupting with silly questions. Well the wife seems more productive, and user friendly as not c

keep tank full over winter or not using vessel a lot and use a decent biocide??prevention is better than cure.Use vessel more often. All fuel is subject to the bug .Yes lives in petrol,more prone in diesel boat motors as they do not get the used same as cars/trucks

...and it turns out he answers the phone and gives coherent and intelligent answers even when he's on holiday!

that is a japanese gearbox normally fitted to Yanmars, it would bolt up to the bell housing whereas you have a remote mounted vee drive.

I believe that would be the best option. Probably what I would have done if I had kept the Cav.

My cav i put in a little Volvo with sail drive. Meant the engine went back under the cockpit and opened a lot of space in the cabin.

I had a remotely located ZF box on our Cav 32. Took it to the agents and what a bloody disaster. Went in as a V drive and I got it back as a straight drive. That's what you get when the experts have a play with it. I would look at options away from V drive units.

Hi Martin, I was more wondering why you started looking at it, was it leaking oil, not going into gear, no drive at all? We had a 35 year old PRM 220 gearbox on an Isuzu 38. Very solid, hydraulic gear box, not made any more. The output bearing was worn, so it was hard to get engine alignment, consequently we found it was leaking oil, but that wasn't apparent at the time. I had 'experts' look over the whole engine and gearbox (we ended up replacing the whole lot with a new Beta 35). And we got the gearbox upgraded from the standard spec to the modern equivalent of the old gearbox, still by

Bill Falconer had a spare one a while ago

Beta do a V-drive https://betamarine.co.uk/resources/GA_Drawings/Seagoing/B30-ZF15MIV/#page=1

When you say your mechanic thinks it needs replacing, what problems are you actually having with it? Any marine item at 47 yrs old I would think most professionals would say it 'needs' replacing. You'd be hard pushed to find an option as solid in today's gearboxes, and would think a refurb would be least expense, esp for the quality of the gear.

the Dog clutches could be built up and be able to live another equally lengthy life.

This was locally made (they also used to make stern drives) but any trace of the company would be long gone. Has it actually been opened up for inspection? I would expect it is fairly simple inside just some bearings, gears and most likely dog clutches for shifting. The bearings and gears would be easy enough to replace, the dog clutches might be a bit more of a challenge.