RA Receives Bow Thruster
By Kurt Osterhoff
Arlington, TX
We received the following information in late
March 2009 (via email) regarding Kurt Osterhoff’s installation of a Bow Thruster on his 1969
MK-I Sloop RA (previously known as TANIA AEBI). Kurt is performing the installation himself
at the Deltaville (Virginia) Boat Yard.
“Hi Tom,
I've been back at Deltaville Boat Yard since mid January continuing
work on Ra -- plodding along slowly.
They moved RA to the far north end of the yard for the winter and they
would have to move several boats to get to her, so I haven't asked them to do
anything since I've been back.
After reading an archived article in Sailing
Magazine about a guy who installed his own bow thruster I've decided to give
this a try myself -- attached are some photos of my progress thus far (End of
March, 2009).
Kurt”
The Following
Are Photos And Short Write-Ups Provided By Kurt:
Photo/Write-Up 1
Photo/Write-Up 2
Photo/Write-Up
3
Photo/Write-Up
4
Here is a link to brief
photo documentary of a bow thruster installation: http://oya.com/others/thruster.php
Here is a link to an installation video by
Lewmar: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsJoL1YNVes
To Be Continued!
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