Hi thanks everyone, we’ll look for the drainage hole!!

Dear all, Our boat is out of the water at the moment and when we removed the zincs, a lot of water drained out. I seem to remember that there should be a drainage hole at the bottom of the rudder, is

Hi Rob, We have taken ours off three times and our advice is , with great caution! Great that you will have professionals with you! You don’t need to loosen the side stays just the rear ones and the o

Thanks to everyone who gave us information! I thought I would update on what we did to solve the problem of the seal. In the end we managed to solve the problem of the leaking oil, but it looks as if

Hi Mitchell, Thanks!! We never had the oil seal...we have taken it apart many times in the 20 years we have her...that is unless it was removed before we bought her....:/ It would be a great help thou

Hi Mitchell, Thanks!! Our fibreglass did not have the aluminium part, at least not since we have the boat, we have taken it apart many times in the 20 years we have her, probably Amel made the change

Hi John, Thanks a lot!! Best regards, Helen and Kostas

Hi Joel, Thanks for that! We’ve had Meditation for 20 years now, but I guess the offer was made to the previous owner. We have serviced the transmission before, this is the first time we have a proble

Thanks Bill, That’s what we used... we will try to do it more carefully this time. The only difference is that our Permatex was a few years old and so the red RTV silicone gasket maker hi-temp low vol

I’m sending the plans Maud sent me. It’s not exactly like any of them. We’ve measured the difference between the aluminum and the fibreglass and it’s 3mm, but again there is nothing to hold an O-ring

Hi Bill, Thanks for the prompt reply! Unfortunately ours is different and doesn’t have the O rings , or any likely place to put one. I’m sending you photos to see what ours is like. On looking at the

We are having trouble with the seal between the transmission and the rest of the drive unit after having it serviced. The oil leaked out between the transmission box and the fibreglass part of the dri