Eric:
I have a 1984 C&C 32 ....sea cocks are Marelon so I don't have the
problem of them seizing up...every haul out I spray the ball with
lithium grease and close and open a few times....my seacocks are open
all the time.
Try mixing a solution of 50% acetone - 50% automatic transmission fluid
and apply that to your seized seacock....use a Q Tip to apply the
solution.....don't get it on the hull or don't leave it there.....this
solution is the best I have used for seized metals.
My cockpit scupper hoses are crossed, as they should be when the thru
hulls are below the waterline line....no water back up into the cockpit
on a same tack unless your thru hull(s) is in a different position(s)
than mine.
That's a grease cup on your rudder tube....if it works, you unscrew the
cup, fill it with grease, screw back on and twist tight to force the
grease into the shaft.....have someone turn your wheel from side to side
to draw in the grease and turn again and again.....you will get to a
point where it doesn't want any more grease .
If the cup is too badly corroded, leave it tap and drill a new fitting
to screw a grease gun to the shaft tube .....it will work just as good.
Rob Abbott
AZURA
C&C 32 -#277
Halifax, N.S.
On 2018-12-30 12:17 a.m., sender via CnC-List wrote:
I bought earlier this year a C&C 32. One issue the surveyor pointed
out is the seacocks for the cockpit drains are stuck in the open
position. This boat has spent it's known history in cold salt water
on the west coast of BC.
I'm interested to know if anyone else has had this same type of
seacock, and had success freeing it up.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/xp1haN2nPHUneETUA
The starboard side one is only barely accessible through the 12"x 12"
panel in the aft end of the quarter-birth. If it was reasonably
accessible, I'd just replace it, but to get 2 hands on it I'd probably
have to go through the locker and remove the fuel tank.
The other pic is a fitting on the rudder tube. I assume this is
(well, was) a grease cup. Has anyone taken one of these on?
Thanks,
Eric
C&C 32 Sirocco 2
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