Day y's boat had AN LOT OF MILES ON IT

Cruising Sailors Forum Archive

In Response To: When I see pictures like this one... ()

Maybe many times the normal use. The shaft takes a lot of "working" -- I thought it was more fatigue than crevice corosion -- but maybe one on top of the other?

Messages In This Thread

For what it's worth. Shaft shot
- You were lucky Dan. That's a pretty scary image.
- An impressive example of crevasse corrosion
  - crevice/crevasse
    - Too quick with the spell check.
- When I see pictures like this one...
  - Day y's boat had AN LOT OF MILES ON IT
    - I agree. 28 years old and almost 6,000 hours. A bit of each.
- Looks like fatigue failure.

Return to Index Read Responses