Saturday, November 21, 2015

Slow Work Day

Slow day this weekend. Not a whole lot of work on the boat. I spent more time chatting with a couple other guys who are about to head out on their boats down the ICW to Florida. Not really with the snow bird crowds but moving there.

I did some measuring of hoses to see what I may need. The cockpit drains have a white plastic hose that I'm thinking to replace with rubber wet exhaust hose. My reason is that the hose clamps can get better compression onto the seacocks. Speaking of which, I found out one of the seacocks has worked loose due to the wood backing plate getting soft. Good thing they're getting replaced anyway. The only other work I did was to drill out a couple small holes on the deck that had failed patches and filled them in with thickened epoxy. I also had a quick look at placement of the access ports for the water tanks.





Safe travels to all these coming weeks.

6 comments:

  1. Looking good...Progress is progress! look forward to the seacock install photo, mine have wood backings too and I have been thinking about how to approach changing them. My boat got all now marlon seacocks and thru-hull in 2008 by the previous owner. they all stull work and look good. Right now I am in the decision stage of swapping them out for bronze...

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    1. I replaced the raw water seacock a couple years ago. This post might help you.
      http://norsea27-rhapsody.blogspot.com/2013/04/raw-water-seacock-installed.html

      at least plans and observations for future work counts. I hear some people like Marlon but didn't want to go that route myself.

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    2. I don't have experience with Marelon seacocks, but this read might be interesting to you: http://triton680.blogspot.com/2014/06/marelon-seacocks-suck-monkey-balls-and.html

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    3. Good post. Good thing I already have Groco seacocks in mind, and in hand. I already have replacements for the four cockpit drains and the galley drain. Most of the fiberglass backers are cut out.

      It's a slow work in progress, but still progress. :-)

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    4. I currently have newer Marelon seacocks and thru hulls, new in 2008....everytime I more one that handle feels as though its gonna break off in my hand....but so far they have held up

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