The Fortress hangs from it's mudguard in a small attachment made for a range of anchors on the bow. I added chafe protection made of rubber on the end of the shaft and also white webbing chafe protection that has velcro to secure it. The end of the shaft and the chain is attached at with velcro ties so it doesn't move around at all. You can see some line led through the bow roller in this picture below but that is for a spare anchor, not the Fortress.
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Hi Bonnie
The cocpit enclosure looks great and I'm sure in less wintery weather increases the living space by a huge amount. Do you have use a gennaker? I'm wondering if the position of the stored Fortress would get in the way of the fore sail or Gennaker. Hopefully the snow will be gone this weekend.
Cheers Rob
Hi Rob,
No, I don't have a gennaker? Do you?
Finally nice weather. I'm down in Port Townsend. Considering moving here.
Bonnie
Hi Bonnie: I have a new to me Cat 28 2 over here in Oak Harbor. I thought I read in your blog that you put in three transmissions and an engine. Do I have that right? I went back to find the posts and lost patience. Did you ever determine the cause(s). I have hull number 834 and of course have a vested interest.
Thanks
Dick
djnward1@yahoo.com
HI Dick,
4 Transmissions and one rebuild and a new engine to be exact (all under warranty). They never figured out the exact problem. So far so good since I got everything new. My first tranny sample was fine on the new engine. I'm currently waiting to hear tests results on my 250 hour tranny sample (again the new engine). After Westerbeke gave me a new engine (under warranty) the tranny company made some other changes to my drive train. They put in new and different engine mounts, repaired the one engine mount bolt that did not have wood under it (they cut inspections holes), and Westmarine put in a different type of torsional coupling. Since all those changes I have been fine. I hope my latest tranny fluid sample will be fine as well. There are no fliters in the little transmissions so there will always be some particles.
The tranny seems to be the "victim" unit. If anything in the drive train is wrong, the tranny suffers first. When I hear the results of my latest tranny fluid sample I'll let you know. I don't think many Catalina owners have had my problems. I seemed to have had very bad luck. I think most Catalina owners have no problems so I hope you won't either.
Also, it wasn't until tranny 4 that anyone shined a flashlight in to look at the torsional coupling. It was all chewed up. If that happened early (say tranny #1) maybe that alone could have taken out all the transmissions.
I'll never know.
The transmission company are my heroes.
Hi Again Dick,
I did get my tranny sample for 250 engine hours and according to ZF Marine it was fine. They look at the particle count very differently than the company that runs the tests because these little trannys have no filters and this isn't a car. For the things the ZF Marine looks for my tranny sample was great. So I guess she is FINALLY fixed:). I had gone through 2 tranny's or maybe 3 by now on my old engine.
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