The pro I hired had all the tools laid out on the dock easily reachable from the water. He went in once, didn't climb out until the job was done. Tools included his prop puller, Crescent wrenches, pliers/dykes, new cotter pin, wood block to immobilize the prop shaft for wrenching both ways.
Without question he was much more efficient than I ever would have been. I've changed a prop in the water once in my lifetime, the pro diver maybe hundreds. Besides, the swimming beach nearest my slip inside LA Outer Harbor consistently tests for high coliform bacteria counts. Local bottom cleaners get regular prophylactic gamma globulin shots. I chose to avoid such exposure.
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Neil
1977 Catalina 30
San Pedro, California
prior boats 1987 Westsail 32, 1970 Catalina 22
Had my hands in a few others
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