cal 29 3 blade prop

Greets: Anyone with a 29 using a three blade. If so whats the pitch and dia and your review of its performance. Much appreciated. -- /ch

I have a 3 blade prop on my 29. I don't know the pitch and guess the size is around 12". It performs very good. I have good control in forward and use the prop walk to my advantage when backing down. I would find it difficult though to back to starboard. It is a rt hand drive and goes back to port and hard over straight back then slowly, slowly to starboard. Scott 74 Cal29 Hatikvah --- On Tue, 12/13/11, chris123 <ch… [at] gmail.com> wrote: From: chris123 <ch… [at] gmail.com> Subject: [Cal_Boats] cal 29 3 blade prop To: "CAL" <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 10:17 AM Greets: Anyone with a 29 using a three blade. If so whats the pitch and dia and your review of its performance. Much appreciated. -- /ch

Hey Chris, I have Michegan mp3 three blade 12" prop, pitch is 8, Performance is good - easy 6kts at 3k rpm - although it suffers badly with any fouling on the prop. Having said all that if I was redoing I'd probably go for a sailor 3 (less ear) or 7 pitch or 11" as tbh in its current guise it's probably a little too much. Grae Morrison 1972 Cal 29 #435 On Dec 13, 2011, at 13:17, chris123 <ch… [at] gmail.com> wrote: > Greets: > > Anyone with a 29 using a three blade. If so whats the pitch and dia > and your review of its performance. Much appreciated. > > -- > /ch >

Chris, we once used a 3-blade indigo prop with the specified pitch straight from the store, it was great for digging right in, reverse and forward, but when we went to feathering, we greatly appreciated not having the drag of a fixed prop. But the 3blade was way better than the 2 blade we changed out. Helen From: chris123 <ch… [at] gmail.com> To: CAL <Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 10:17 AM Subject: [Cal_Boats] cal 29 3 blade prop Greets: Anyone with a 29 using a three blade. If so whats the pitch and dia and your review of its performance. Much appreciated. -- /ch

Grae: What the engine and max horsepower your are running? Im looking at a Campbell sailor prop to match an older 2M15 Yanmar. The spec that came back with that engine and power curve matched the 29 was 12x10 on a one inch shaft. Now the profile is a different design then on Michigan Wheel. The other one I found is a stock catalina replacement option. http://www.westbynorth.com/CampbellSailerTests.aspx This is not for me, but for a friend. Im just doing the leg work as usual. Much to learn but its a fun exercise. /ch On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 2:34 PM, grae <gr… [at] gtmorrison.net> wrote: > > > Hey Chris, > > I have Michegan mp3 three blade 12" prop, pitch is 8, Performance is good > - easy 6kts at 3k rpm - although it suffers badly with any fouling on the > prop. > > Having said all that if I was redoing I'd probably go for a sailor 3 (less > ear) or 7 pitch or 11" as tbh in its current guise it's probably a little > too much. > > Grae Morrison > 1972 Cal 29 #435 > > > On Dec 13, 2011, at 13:17, chris123 <ch… [at] gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Greets: > > Anyone with a 29 using a three blade. If so whats the pitch and dia > and your review of its performance. Much appreciated. > > -- > /ch > > > > > -- /ch

I'm running a 13x13 RH 3-blade behind a Yanmar 2GM14 on our '77 2-29. It's not as "fast" as the 2-blade behind the old Farymann was, but lots of torque. Heavy propwalk to port in reverse that took a little bit of getting used to. Cost was around $800 from Wilmington Prop in SoCal, but I did get a cool t-shirt with it.... --- In Ca… [at] yahoogroups.com, chris123 <chris.herrnberger@...> wrote: > > Greets: > > Anyone with a 29 using a three blade. If so whats the pitch and dia > and your review of its performance. Much appreciated. > > -- > /ch >

HI John Surprised you can fit a 13" prop on that boat. Do you have enough clearance between the prop and the hull? Best regards /ch On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:13 PM, John Caldwell <ja… [at] vel.net> wrote: > I'm running a 13x13 RH 3-blade behind a Yanmar 2GM14 on our '77 2-29. It's not as "fast" as the 2-blade behind the old Farymann was, but lots of torque. Heavy propwalk to port in reverse that took a little bit of getting used to. Cost was around $800 from Wilmington Prop in SoCal, but I did get a cool t-shirt with it....