[Public-list] thru hulls and seacocks and ball valves

[Mike Lehman]

Use ball valves. I converted 20 7 years ago and they still work great. 
Seacocks are for either wooden vessels or vessels with thin glass hulls 
(modern boats). Technically they are the 'proper' yacht thing to do, but 
most of the ones I have seen have not been installed correctly because no 
one wants to drill the bolt holes thru the hull for the flange bolts - I 
certainly wouldn't wat to, just another possible place to spring a leak.

Also do not switch to 3/4" - it would mean that you would need to change all 
of your hoses and connections at the other end or get into using adapters to 
change hose sizes (another undesirable idea). 1/2" are available - call 
Fawcett's in Annapolis and order them, even though Fawcett's is often 
referred to as 'Tiffany's', the have great prices on some things (valves and 
thru hull fittings being one of them) and their quality of parts is better.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "dan walker" <dsailormon at yahoo.com>
To: "Alberg 30 Public List -- open to all" <public-list at alberg30.org>
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 6:15 PM
Subject: [Public-list] thru hulls and seacocks and ball valves


> well i went to my local handy dandy west store and the chap says i shold 
> not put in ball valves, i should put in seacocks. everybody agree and 
> think this is necessary?
> also dont seem to carry half inch seacocks. only three quarte so i would 
> need to change all the half inch thru hulls to 3 quartetr.
> oh the despair\
>
> thanks
> dan
>
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