Year built

Hrs.on the unit

Frequency of oil change

Any repairs, at how many hours and the nature of the repair. Damperplate condition Cost of repairs and any special conditions such as at home or while cruising If unit was replaced by another brand, why and total cost With this survey I ATTEMPTED to come to some conclusion regarding the longevity and repair record of the CR2. Unfortunately or fortunately there seems to be no traceable line of failure at a set number of hours! Noting the limited number of responses. The reason for my even attempting this little exercise was that I have a pair with 4700 hrs on them in my 1981 CHB.

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Compiled Advice 2009.pdf

Published in MARINE TRAWLER OWNERS ASSOCIATION  magazine

Whether or not you have teak decks your lazarette hatch cover will eventually leak. The leak will not necessarily be  into the lazarette but into the cover itself. Can you spell rot! CCRIDER is a 1981 CHB 45 P/H with teak decks. Well, all the decks used to be teak but a few years ago they were covered with, what is commonly referred to as "pickup truck bedliner " material. Best thing that has happened to teak decks! 

I digress. Anyway, I thought my leaks were gone.  I had not counted on the small flush finger handle with which you open the lazarette  hatch. Seems as though water was making its way into the hatch cover through one of them. I discovered this when the fitting came off  in my hand!! This on the day we left on a 3,000mile trip up the Tenn-Tom and Tennessee Rivers. I had repaired the cover about 5 years ago and Fiberglassed the under side. This made the leak non- apparent. The glass contained it  and held the water inside the cover. Thus the plywood core rotted. Since the cockpit teak is protected from direct weather it was not  covered with the  " bedliner " material.

The bane of the Taiwan trawler style.
CC RIDER is a 1981 CHB that I purchased in 1985. Since I do all of my own maintenance, she and I are intimately acquainted, probably in the Biblical sense! I digress. Knowing well the proclivities of these boats I have babied the tanks over the years, to little avail.  Noting however that there was no rust on the top of the tanks from deck leaks. This spring the two port side tanks sprang minute leaks in their bottoms.  To remedy this I took the following steps: