Well, that will teach me to leave a brand new tides marine shaft seal on my chart table right next to my brand new Lasdrop lip seals which I just bought before I was hauled out.
I had some medical stuff going on and had to abandon my boat to the yard for a couple of weeks. The yard replaced my Cutlass bearing, rebedded my leaky strut and did a bang up job of installing the wrong shaft seal.
By the time I had some breathing room they had splashed my boat. All the work was done very efficiently, very inexpensively and very unleakily. Plus the whole team were nice people.
I didn’t have the heart to tell them they were supposed to replace the lip seal in the lasdrop, not the whole lasdrop with the tides marine seal and shame on me anyway for leaving the damn brand new tides front and center on my chart table.
So I am now the accidental user of a tides marine shaft seal which I am happy to say is working beautifully so far. I have the old lasdrop and spare seals stashed away for the next haul out in a couple years.
Anyway. Since I had the lasdrop out I thought I would post a little gallery of lasdrop seal photos so interested parties can see its component parts on the bench and for the record. I also took some pics of me extracting the lip seal from the housing so the curious could see how that works.
