John:
My advice to you is to unseize your seacocks and/or replace them if
unseizing is not possible. I would not change the setup to drain out
above the waterline.
Just how would you go about doing this? Doesn't make sense.
In doing so, are you going to leave the existing seacocks seized in the
'open position'? And how? Don't think your surveyor/insurance company
would like that!
The 'port seacock' is easy to get at on my boat.....empty the port
lazarette, climb down and there you have it astern......the starboard
seacock is more of a challenge....open the 'hatch' at the back of the
quarterberth and look in....it right in front of you.
Don't think you have any choice but deal with the seized seacocks!
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 - 84
Halifax, N.S.
On 2014/01/11 5:09 PM, John Charlesworth wrote:
I have a C&C 32 which has two drains in the cockpit both are connected to
separate seacocks (GROCO SV-1500) below the waterline, needless to say both
seacocks are difficult to get to, as a result they are both seized in the open
position. Has anyone changed this setup to drain water out above the waterline and
if so, do you have any problems with water backing up into the cockpit when
underway.
Thanks
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