[Public-List] Whitby thru-hulls

[Mike Lehman]

It was a good thing to replace those fittings - on the Chesapeake, I don't think you can get insuracne with them. There have been many failures.

 
Mike Lehman 

 
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> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:58:31 -0700
> From: gwyn at beluga.phys.uvic.ca
> To: public-list at lists.alberg30.org
> Subject: [Public-List] Whitby thru-hulls
> 
> 
> My boat has gone back in the water after the semi-annual
> haulout. This time, as well as painting, I pulled the three
> Whitby homemade thru-hulls. I have mixed feelings as to whether
> I should have bothered. All three were in pretty good shape.
> They're pipe nipple banged over fender washers all right, but
> they've also been brazed together. They're definitely not ideal,
> but I'm also not surprised they've held together for 37 years.
> 
> While they were out, I got a look at the hull thickness. On my
> boat anyway, the hull is just shy of 1/2" at the position
> of the engine cooling thru-hull. I thought our boats were heavier
> built than that. I was expecting 3/4" or more.
> 
> Stephen
> Quasar #495
> 
> 
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