Our 1970 Redwing 35 (Hull #7) had gate valves for the cockpit scuppers.
I never planned to close the cockpit scuppers so I made sure that I had
wooden plugs available in the event of a hose failure. Our new(er) C&C
35-3 has proper seacocks. I still don't close the scupper seacocks and
still have wooden plugs for a failed hose. The Redwing 35 had four gate
valves and they all still worked when we lost her.
Neil Schiller
1983 C&C 35-3, #028, "Grace"
Whitehall, Michigan
WLYC
On 12/10/2019 4:26 PM, Chuck Gilchrest via CnC-List wrote:
David,
When I did the same job on my 75 25 Mk 1 many years ago, I simply
unscrewed the gate valves from the through hulls and brought the valve
with me to my marine retailer and matched the threads to reinstall the
new valves.. Since most through hulls are bonded to the hull using
some impenetrable goop like 3M 5200, you’ll risk damaging the laminate
if you try to muscle the through hull out of the hull and I had no
issues unscrewing the gate valve out of the through hull threads. I
was informed by folks much smarter than me, that gate valves can be
very prone to failure and when they do fail, there’s no means of
shutting the flow of water through the valve. Rather than
questioning, I took their advice and got all the gate valves out of
the boat.
Chuck Gilchrest
SV Half Magic
83 35 Landfall
Padanaram, MA
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