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I find it interesting that boat fixture manufacturers clearly know that their cruiser constituency is very vulnerable to parts failure, ie stuck in foreign ports or exotic places, but with the exception of a couple engine manufacturers, none of them seem to care much about post sale service.
This sounds like a lost opportunity to me. Given the choice, I’d buy the pump from a company that gives me a number or email, a name, and a commitment to immediately ship me any part. However, I’m just buying one pump. Maybe the company would rather sell 1,000 pumps to the new boat builder who wants it for cheaper and doesn’t really care if you get good service 20 years later.
Tor, maybe an article in CW on getting replacement parts from less than cooperative sources?
QuentHi guys
I agree entirely that this is price abuse, but they obviously want you to buy new stuff instead. There’s no incentive to be nice.
Regarding the dipstick, yoi don’t really need it attached to the cap. As long as the cap has its little o-ring in place, you could just make one out of a piece of rod and store it elsewhere. If there is a little salt water getting in the well in the v-drive cover, the aluminum dipstick makes a nice anode for the iron case.
I’d be careful about using a zinc in the v-drive. I did that and pieces of the zinc chewed up the water pump impeller.
Speaking of expensive Westerbeke parts, look at #24108, a two belt water pump pulley necessary (at least desirable) for installing a larger alternator, Westerbeke wants over $600. Got one still in the wrapper, $100 plus postage.
QuentThe blocks are not new. I bought them in 1997 for a boat I sold in 1999. Stuck them in basement and never used them again. So old blocks with two years use on Chesapeake Bay
I love Velcro Beach. Are you at the city marina?
QuentI hope so, Tor. Thought about buying another boat just to have a place for the dodger, but Claire is watching me real close until I’ve detoxed.
QHi Guys
Last call on the dodger. Fiberglass top, 1″ stainless frame. Will go to the dump unless someone claims it soon.
QuentWhat I have in mind is bolted to a plywood board temporarily replacing the cabin sole hatch by the galley over the deep section of the bilge. The pump has a bottom intake. By the time I’d need it, a short intake hose would do. Exit would be via the galley port through a piece of plexiglass where the screen would fit. Maybe enough hose to clear the rail. Problem is figuring out where to stow all this kit.
QThis might be a good chance to inform everyone that I still have a Edson gallon per stroke pump using up space in the basement. Tor, you could mount it on a piece of bilge hatch size clear plexi then check and pump bilge on the same trip.
QHello, did I not say Harbor Freight. Freight? Probably Chopsticks.
Seriously, I just went to the basement and checked. Fur Elise, in the pitch of way too high. Alarm sounds like a soprano machine gun.
Runs on a 9v battery.
QHi Rich
That’s one of them, the fancy one that alarms or plays music.
Thanks to some artillery in a prior life, loud noises don’t bother me.
There is a company that makes freestanding water alarms about the size of a coffee k-cup but they react to moisture over time and would false alarm on a boat.
Q
