[C320-list] Gori prop problem

[Jack Russ]

Have you contacted Gori for a suggestion?

> Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 12:53:55 -0400
> From: surprise at thompson87.com
> To: C320-List at Catalina320.org
> Subject: [C320-list] Gori prop problem
> 
> It's been a terrible summer for sailing for me, between too busy at work 
> and too hot on the water. I went to the boat yesterday for the first 
> time in over a month and dove to see how bad the prop was. The good news 
> is that the Propspeed seems to have kept most of the hard growth off my 
> Gori 2 blade folding prop. The bad news is that I can't unfold it all 
> the way. The blades unfold smoothly until they reach about 90 degrees to 
> each other, but I can't get any more motion than that, and certainly not 
> the 180 degrees I need for proper motoring. I tried scraping out as much 
> junk as I could from the pivot area, but couldn't make more than minor 
> progress on getting the thing to unfold.
> 
> Does anyone have suggestions or tips before I take the step of getting 
> the boat hauled?