{"id":11,"date":"2026-08-25T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/?p=11"},"modified":"2026-09-04T17:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T17:12:35","slug":"gearbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/?p=11","title":{"rendered":"Gearbox and bottom finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a few sessions with chatGPT and some cruisers forums, the consensus on oil type for the gearbox was 14w40 Rotella. Perfect, as the engine takes that as well so great for keeping things simple. La Sirena has an oil change pump and hoses installed in the engine room which made quick work of this and the engine oil change.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at doing the next oil changes early at around the 50 hour mark just to see how things come out.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and, it&#8217;s really good that previous owner(s) maintained a library of all the systems aboard, with manuals and service dates etc.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom paint will likely be a couple of gallons of Pettit Odyssey HD, ChatGPT says make it so!<\/p>\n<p>The weather right now is absolutely prefect in the Pacific Northwest, would be great to get relaunched within the next few weeks to be able to do a shakedown cruise until the weather turns in to real PNW winter season. I may opt for a winter mooring through to March\/April 2026. Winter will be spent finishing interior systems and fair weather window sailing.<\/p>\n<p>We will see.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"54\" src=\"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_7120-rotated.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-54\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-id=\"55\" src=\"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/IMG_7123-rotated.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-55\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"869\" height=\"652\" data-id=\"44\" src=\"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1E680558-80E1-4B6C-BEAA-D615C6A847CB.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1E680558-80E1-4B6C-BEAA-D615C6A847CB.png 869w, https:\/\/sarmc.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1E680558-80E1-4B6C-BEAA-D615C6A847CB-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/sarmc.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1E680558-80E1-4B6C-BEAA-D615C6A847CB-768x576.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 869px) 100vw, 869px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a few sessions with chatGPT and some cruisers forums, the consensus on oil type for the gearbox was 14w40 Rotella. Perfect, as the engine takes that as well so great for keeping things simple. La Sirena has an oil change pump and hoses installed in the engine room which made quick work of this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-restoration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sarmc.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}