That nut is called a stuffing box and it is supposed to leak a tiny bit. Moisture from the sea water keeps it lubricated. You might need to unbolt it and remove the old stuffing and replace it with new stuffing material.
Great to see you Taylor living the life you always wanted, have fun and start a priority list for the repairs so that you do not stress yourself out, do it at your own pace and remember, it will never stop, you'ill always have something to repair on a boat.
Good bilge insurance is to have two bilge pumps. One low like the one you have and then another one several inches above the first one. If your main pump fails, the secondary one will pick up the slack.
Need a big pipe wrench in the boats tool kit and some stainless bolt replacements. Quote: "One is none,two will do, three is best". Pick up a roll of Guerilla Tape, sail needle and nylon thread for the Bimini, sew a patch of canvas over hole. There is an APP for the cell phone that keeps you informed of what is going on in the boat when you are away, check it out.
Taylor Thankyou for sharing some amazing underwater video footage. Continue to follow your adventurous compass and stay safe. I voted for your channel.
you need to add packing to your shaft seal ,it is as tight as it can go if possible take out the old packing and put in new and lubricate the packing well to keep from wearing out the shaft
if i had to guess you nut is bottomed out and not squeezing the packing enough to pinch the shaft and make the seal. pull the nut down and put something in it to take up space and put more pressure on the packing
Check the rudder stuffing box for corrosion, delamination at coring, or any other conditions not allowing moderate pressure to seal the shaft. By having to tighten the adjustment nut so tight as to stop leaks, may have made the rudder post too hard to turn, leading to the breakage of the autopilot drive. From previous experience, I've found a lot of water can leak through a defective rudder stuffing box; yes, enough to potentially sink the boat!
Nice work on getting your first lobster! Yes, it is an important skill to feed yourself. Most of the older packing glands are made by Buck Algonquin. They sell wrenches to fit the packing glands. Get a set to fit your rudder and your shaft glands, it make maintenance easier. Ridged makes a pipe wench for union nuts, that has flat jaws, also good the have for adjusting packing glands. Best of luck.
Thanks!! I appreciate the suggestion but things like that are very difficult to find in the islands as there are barely basic grocery stores or hardware stores. And cannot order anything online! We often do what we can with what we’ve got to make it work :)
That hold of breath amazed me every time, but she is just capable in any way. She is a strong woman and never gave up. I respect her.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Cheers Cape Town
Big congrats on your nomination, very groovy. Love the underwater shots, (not the cave). Your camera shoots so cleanly and clear. Good job on your first lobster.
BOAT bring on another thousand! That’s what they say boat stands for. However it’s always worth every penny when you love being on the water. Great video Taylor.
It was great meeting you at Casey and Ashley's wedding! Loved talking to about your adventures. Such amazing and beautiful vlogs. Congrats on your nomination for Best TH-cam Channel. Ed and I both voted!
On a boat you can never be prepared enough or have enough tools and knowledge. Something I suggest is that you keep very good records of everything you do to the boat and when you replace something or tighten something, MARK IT!! In this case you think your packing gland is loosening up. Well, MARK IT so you can keep an eye on the marks to see if it is in fact loosing up!! So a small paint mark or punch or chisel mark on the packing nut and another matching it on something that cannot move!! These are known as witness marks. The engagement pins for your autopilot should have a specific sheer strength that would be provided by the company who makes it. Most off the shelf hardware store screws are going to have a pretty low sheer strength and will not handle salt air or water very well or very long. Do your homework and get the correct pins or at least the equivalent replacement parts. When you go onto the dry, check ALL through hole valves and repack all packing glands with the proper materials and replace any valves that could be considered weak. I DO NOT like any plastic valves. ALL valves on a boat need to be cycled very regularly... In a house as well, but for most a stuck valve in a house isn't a matter of life and death!!! On a boat though!!!!!! Love the new bikini!!! ;)
One way to keep those stitched seams together is to put a very light amount of gorilla glue(polyeurethane) on the seam. The idea is to just wet the seam and fabric enough to create a kind of composite that spreads the load to the fabric on the other side. Even more useful if the fabric has shredded. If you put too much on, then it will "foam", so do the minimal. If it does foam a little, then it looks ugly and is foam color, I sometimes use a permanent market of the right color to hide the foam, one can also use tape... The bond is really strong when done right, it takes a full 24 hours to cure though and cannot be moved at all when curing. Not as nice a patch method as others but it works, epoxy might also work to strengthen the seams. This technique can also be used to make parts, bit like paper mache technique, one careful layer at a time. The foamy stuff is not very strong, so you always have to keep it to a minimum of glue.
Next time on the hard, inspect the prop shaft for wear and the bearing sleeve too. Replace any worn-out parts. If you have a machine shop in the area have them make you a 1/4 inch thick plate steel, stainless if they have some, wrench with 12 inch flat handle. In a vice bend the handle slightly, so you can use a cheater pipe/bar on the end of handle. This will torq the nut tight. Wright the exact width of the nut that is contacting the hull, so the shop will have the exact measurement. Get a few more sump pumps to keep on hand. Do some research to see if that shaft needs to have some seepage to keep it cool? Some do.
It’s always a joy to see you swimming underwater. It’s so graceful seeing you glide along almost without effort and faster than expected. Always hope to see a small segment when possible. Whenever a part is likely to loosen and back off on its own they often use wire through anchor holes to stop the loosening. I think they actually have courses for doing it right. If you can find someone that knows how it should solve the problem provided it’s not a bad seal. If not done correctly it will loosen even faster. Hope you can steer clear of the storms and prayers for your safety.🙏
You probably don’t have enough stuffing material in the rudder post stuffing box. Properly packed stuffing box will allow the nut the seal without the nut being all the way tight. As time goes in if it’s leaks too much you can hand tighten it down a bit.
The exhumas have ourstanding under water vistas even if your not into snorkeling or using a scub tank you should take the plunge it is a fantastic underwater experiance
You could go to shore and get a piece of wood shape it down rounded on each end roll the fabric where it's ripping up on the wood like a down and clamp it with something will definitely lat longer while you work on getting another replacement. Love your channel. I evy you . It's tough yes but once you have that boat in order you'll be good to go . I also have been following sv Delos for many yrs now . Love those peeps too. Stay safe
Bravo, nice looking lobster Taylor. I'm with Kiki, cats gotta go. haha, Just kidding. Hopefully you will get your boat taken care of for your next sailing. Salute you two.
Here on the Pacific coast it's illegal to spear lobster, we have to catch em' by hand only but due to the abundance of Moray eels in the Caribbean it's best not to put your hand in a hole.
Your CPT autopilot uses those two little shear pins in the clutch as a safety feature to prevent drive damage. You did buy the suggested several sets of spares didn't you? Look for SS bolts of the same diameter and cut the heads off, then trim to match the length. You don't need to go overboard, but when I changed my AP to the CPT a few years ago I bought 20 belts, 12 sets of pins...and a complete second drive and control head. My rule: the more spares you have the less you'll need them. I'm on three years with the CPT and needed nothing yet. PS - ONE bilge pump?????? Someone needs their regular morale beating. One automatic low in the deepest bilge, second one (larger output) mounted higher and wired to an alarm third in any forward bilge space where there are multiple thru-hulls - the tiny holes in stringers supposedly to allow water to drain aft to the deeper bilge rarely suffice.
I voted for Taylor's Travels, even did the email confirmation. I hope you win. FYI, you should keep a container of pipe dope on board, would have probably been a better patch than the thread lock
Shaft packing for rudder needs replacement very much like a stuffing box for a inboard shaft always carry extra packing for rudder and shaft for situations like that no biggy
So many people love swimming with stingrays and they are not scared of them, but people are scared of sharks. It might be worth looking up who Steve Irwin is and how he died. Steve Irwin was a expert on TV of extremely deadly animals and would just do the most crazy stuff with the most deadly animals for the camera. And the animal that actually killed him was a stingray. I hope you enjoyed swimming with those stingrays.
Glad your having mostly a uneventful sail ? BTW, is there anyway you can block the guy " Wilbur first the gash" He didn't say anything offensive but his Handle sure is ! And YT is Demonizing Bikini Fishing Channels !!!! ✌️💙🎵 From STL MO
I understand why but can’t understand how you gave up the cat, I’m watching this as the cat my son brought home from his work next to a busy highway is sleeping peacefully in my lap. He and his 7 step siblings are all foundlings. 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈🐈🐈🐈
Taylor, FYI some scammer is using your site as a contact point. I received a reply to my prior comment asking me to text you on telegram. Warm your viewers. Be well.
If somebody would invent an auto pilot that was dependable they would be a millionaire over night. Seems like every sailing video has a broken auto pilot segment.
Thank'YOU Tay❣️
That nut is called a stuffing box and it is supposed to leak a tiny bit. Moisture from the sea water keeps it lubricated. You might need to unbolt it and remove the old stuffing and replace it with new stuffing material.
Great to see you Taylor living the life you always wanted, have fun and start a priority list for the repairs so that you do not stress yourself out, do it at your own pace and remember, it will never stop, you'ill always have something to repair on a boat.
Beautiful underwater footage......especially the eagle rays! Congrats on your nomination too. Over 200K subs, that's fantastic!
Good bilge insurance is to have two bilge pumps. One low like the one you have and then another one several inches above the first one. If your main pump fails, the secondary one will pick up the slack.
Need a big pipe wrench in the boats tool kit and some stainless bolt replacements. Quote: "One is none,two will do, three is best". Pick up a roll of Guerilla Tape, sail needle and nylon thread for the Bimini, sew a patch of canvas over hole. There is an APP for the cell phone that keeps you informed of what is going on in the boat when you are away, check it out.
Taylor Thankyou for sharing some amazing underwater video footage. Continue to follow your adventurous compass and stay safe. I voted for your channel.
Your looking great and a great video.
Your the best for sure. So happy for you that your found Kiki. You deserve such a great partner. And I am sure he is happy he found you!
you need to add packing to your shaft seal ,it is as tight as it can go if possible take out the old packing and put in new and lubricate the packing well to keep from wearing out the shaft
Awesome video. Congratulations on 200k 🎉🎉🎉✌️❤️🥂🍾
Definitely a very beautiful underwater video sequence.
I misread it as underwear video sequence.
Taylor haven't I touched down the channel lately lovely😍, as always,🤘🏼!
Love the sign!
if i had to guess you nut is bottomed out and not squeezing the packing enough to pinch the shaft and make the seal. pull the nut down and put something in it to take up space and put more pressure on the packing
I have plenty of graphite stuffing box material on board. Be happy to send it.
Congrats Taylor! for being nominated! Also beautiful underwater scenery!! Greetings.
Vero Beach ⛱️🏖️ FLORIDA
Thanks Tay ✌️
Awesome video as always. Hope all your troubles don't over shadow the beauty of where you are. Glad you have Kiki to help you.
I voted for you and think you have a very good chance to win! Happy sailing!
Absolutely beautiful great adventure. We love the Exumas and living here is truly best. Another great video
Check the rudder stuffing box for corrosion, delamination at coring, or any other conditions not allowing moderate pressure to seal the shaft. By having to tighten the adjustment nut so tight as to stop leaks, may have made the rudder post too hard to turn, leading to the breakage of the autopilot drive. From previous experience, I've found a lot of water can leak through a defective rudder stuffing box; yes, enough to potentially sink the boat!
Good 👍
Nice work on getting your first lobster! Yes, it is an important skill to feed yourself.
Most of the older packing glands are made by Buck Algonquin. They sell wrenches to fit the packing glands. Get a set to fit your rudder and your shaft glands, it make maintenance easier. Ridged makes a pipe wench for union nuts, that has flat jaws, also good the have for adjusting packing glands. Best of luck.
Thanks!! I appreciate the suggestion but things like that are very difficult to find in the islands as there are barely basic grocery stores or hardware stores. And cannot order anything online! We often do what we can with what we’ve got to make it work :)
Well Done, Karl
I gotta say Karl, that talk would get my wife all bothered or amused, I'm gonna read it to her tonight. Cheers buddy!
...a "flat jaw" pipe wrench is called a "monkey wrench"......
Congrats
Woo hoo!
Loooove turtles ! And Taylor !! ………and Taylor swimming with turtles 😃😎. Awesome video 👍. I don’t know how you hold your breath for so long
That hold of breath amazed me every time, but she is just capable in any way. She is a strong woman and never gave up. I respect her.🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Cheers Cape Town
Big congrats on your nomination, very groovy. Love the underwater shots, (not the cave). Your camera shoots so cleanly and clear. Good job on your first lobster.
BOAT bring on another thousand! That’s what they say boat stands for. However it’s always worth every penny when you love being on the water. Great video Taylor.
Beautiful place, it's amazing.
Wow 💙
Voted you! Way to go !
One of your best travel vlog type videos yet. You keep going and we will keep watching.
get the flow go
Good one!
Great as always.....my wife and I do schooner sailing a multitiude of places around Brasil....fun way to meet folks
Great footage! Excellent video!
It was great meeting you at Casey and Ashley's wedding! Loved talking to about your adventures. Such amazing and beautiful vlogs. Congrats on your nomination for Best TH-cam Channel. Ed and I both voted!
It was lovely meeting you guys as well!! ❤️ thank you so much 🙂
On a boat you can never be prepared enough or have enough tools and knowledge. Something I suggest is that you keep very good records of everything you do to the boat and when you replace something or tighten something, MARK IT!! In this case you think your packing gland is loosening up. Well, MARK IT so you can keep an eye on the marks to see if it is in fact loosing up!! So a small paint mark or punch or chisel mark on the packing nut and another matching it on something that cannot move!! These are known as witness marks. The engagement pins for your autopilot should have a specific sheer strength that would be provided by the company who makes it. Most off the shelf hardware store screws are going to have a pretty low sheer strength and will not handle salt air or water very well or very long. Do your homework and get the correct pins or at least the equivalent replacement parts. When you go onto the dry, check ALL through hole valves and repack all packing glands with the proper materials and replace any valves that could be considered weak. I DO NOT like any plastic valves. ALL valves on a boat need to be cycled very regularly... In a house as well, but for most a stuck valve in a house isn't a matter of life and death!!! On a boat though!!!!!! Love the new bikini!!! ;)
Good shit Taylor
Quá đỉnh chỉnh ỏi👍👍👏👏🌹🌹🌹🩵🩵🩵🔔
Some really cool underwater photography here. Well done.
Beautiful blue water with all the wildlife! The cave experience was quite wild! Blessings and love always sweet Taylor! 🙏❤
One way to keep those stitched seams together is to put a very light amount of gorilla glue(polyeurethane) on the seam. The idea is to just wet the seam and fabric enough to create a kind of composite that spreads the load to the fabric on the other side. Even more useful if the fabric has shredded. If you put too much on, then it will "foam", so do the minimal. If it does foam a little, then it looks ugly and is foam color, I sometimes use a permanent market of the right color to hide the foam, one can also use tape... The bond is really strong when done right, it takes a full 24 hours to cure though and cannot be moved at all when curing. Not as nice a patch method as others but it works, epoxy might also work to strengthen the seams. This technique can also be used to make parts, bit like paper mache technique, one careful layer at a time. The foamy stuff is not very strong, so you always have to keep it to a minimum of glue.
Super niceo
Great video!!
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Cool place. Beautiful
Awesome video!! Xo
Very beautiful n awesome footage 😎
Voted, as you ARE my number 1..... :-)) xx
Go girl!
You got my vote.
Next time on the hard, inspect the prop shaft for wear and the bearing sleeve too. Replace any worn-out parts. If you have a machine shop in the area have them make you a 1/4 inch thick plate steel, stainless if they have some, wrench with 12 inch flat handle. In a vice bend the handle slightly, so you can use a cheater pipe/bar on the end of handle. This will torq the nut tight. Wright the exact width of the nut that is contacting the hull, so the shop will have the exact measurement. Get a few more sump pumps to keep on hand. Do some research to see if that shaft needs to have some seepage to keep it cool? Some do.
I voted for you. Happy sailing ⛵️, pretty lady 💓
Don’t ignore the rudder post. I know someone whose Beneteau 40 is a few thousand feet down due to a similar leak.
You rock Taylor
I'm vote # 399 . Quite the hassle for a simple vote
It’s always a joy to see you swimming underwater. It’s so graceful seeing you glide along almost without effort and faster than expected. Always hope to see a small segment when possible.
Whenever a part is likely to loosen and back off on its own they often use wire through anchor holes to stop the loosening. I think they actually have courses for doing it right. If you can find someone that knows how it should solve the problem provided it’s not a bad seal. If not done correctly it will loosen even faster. Hope you can steer clear of the storms and prayers for your safety.🙏
You probably don’t have enough stuffing material in the rudder post stuffing box. Properly packed stuffing box will allow the nut the seal without the nut being all the way tight. As time goes in if it’s leaks too much you can hand tighten it down a bit.
Enjoy your first lobster catch Taylor, hope you had some butter, he-he.
Enjoy your videos. Stay safe.
The exhumas have ourstanding under water vistas even if your not into snorkeling or using a scub tank you should take the plunge it is a fantastic underwater experiance
All your time in Dry Tortuga’s with SV Delos, Hurricane Ian is making landfall there tonight.
👍🎣🌊⛵🏖️⛱️💯
you should keep the cat 👍 good luck with the nomination.
♥️♥️🥰🥰
Good luck, Taylor! Hugs from sunny Arizona 💖😎💖
You could go to shore and get a piece of wood shape it down rounded on each end roll the fabric where it's ripping up on the wood like a down and clamp it with something will definitely lat longer while you work on getting another replacement. Love your channel. I evy you . It's tough yes but once you have that boat in order you'll be good to go . I also have been following sv Delos for many yrs now . Love those peeps too. Stay safe
Keep the cat 😃🥰 😉
Bravo, nice looking lobster Taylor. I'm with Kiki, cats gotta go. haha, Just kidding. Hopefully you will get your boat taken care of for your next sailing. Salute you two.
It seems ur boat needed a lot work to repair and service packages
I wish you the best
I was vote #385. 💜
Here on the Pacific coast it's illegal to spear lobster, we have to catch em' by hand only but due to the abundance of Moray eels in the Caribbean it's best not to put your hand in a hole.
Your CPT autopilot uses those two little shear pins in the clutch as a safety feature to prevent drive damage. You did buy the suggested several sets of spares didn't you? Look for SS bolts of the same diameter and cut the heads off, then trim to match the length.
You don't need to go overboard, but when I changed my AP to the CPT a few years ago I bought 20 belts, 12 sets of pins...and a complete second drive and control head. My rule: the more spares you have the less you'll need them. I'm on three years with the CPT and needed nothing yet.
PS - ONE bilge pump?????? Someone needs their regular morale beating. One automatic low in the deepest bilge, second one (larger output) mounted higher and wired to an alarm third in any forward bilge space where there are multiple thru-hulls - the tiny holes in stringers supposedly to allow water to drain aft to the deeper bilge rarely suffice.
I voted for Taylor's Travels, even did the email confirmation. I hope you win.
FYI, you should keep a container of pipe dope on board, would have probably been a better patch than the thread lock
Whose boat is it?
Great video !! you probably stole someone's cat. lol
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Where to now
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Shaft packing for rudder needs replacement very much like a stuffing box for a inboard shaft always carry extra packing for rudder and shaft for situations like that no biggy
This girl is so beautiful and independent
So many people love swimming with stingrays and they are not scared of them, but people are scared of sharks.
It might be worth looking up who Steve Irwin is and how he died. Steve Irwin was a expert on TV of extremely deadly animals and would just do the most crazy stuff with the most deadly animals for the camera. And the animal that actually killed him was a stingray.
I hope you enjoyed swimming with those stingrays.
A flame named kiki or a cat. Keep cat.
If it’s not been upgraded to Delo’s standards, then it’s simply designed to fail.
I would love more videos without voice overs. much love
For every one thing that fails on a boat there are at least 10 things that work as planned, but it might feel different sometimes :-)
Whos this new guy? Have I missed a video?
Your rudder shaft probably needs more packing nuts tight to the hull fitting and you can't compress it any more.
Glad your having mostly a uneventful sail ? BTW, is there anyway you can block the guy " Wilbur first the gash" He didn't say anything offensive but his Handle sure is ! And YT is Demonizing Bikini Fishing Channels !!!! ✌️💙🎵 From STL MO
I understand why but can’t understand how you gave up the cat, I’m watching this as the cat my son brought home from his work next to a busy highway is sleeping peacefully in my lap. He and his 7 step siblings are all foundlings. 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈🐈🐈🐈
Good. But not yet the best.🙂
So much better with Brian and Kiki. And the adventures. Less of how to fix or upgrade a sailboat. Just my opinion.
Taylor, FYI some scammer is using your site as a contact point. I received a reply to my prior comment asking me to text you on telegram. Warm your viewers. Be well.
If somebody would invent an auto pilot that was dependable they would be a millionaire over night. Seems like every sailing video has a broken auto pilot segment.
Abandon the cat? Shame on you.
I returned it back to where it came from. It was healthy, well fed and didn’t have any visible health issues. The people on the island care for them.