Marc H. Pearl
Member
Greetings Folks -
It has been some time since I visited the site. I tried selling Patriot but to no avail. Lots of lookers but no offers. I was selling for lack of use, so the solution, use her more. That is the plan anyway.
Got her hauled for a bottom job and am checking the thru hulls. Some are really hard to cycle. Will try lubricant and heat to see if I can get them to cycle freely. I want to check them to see if I can see any corrosion or color differential maybe showing the bronze is compromised. I was going to sand the bottom paint off the flanges to see how they looked and discovered there are no flanges on the underside, just a clean hole thru the hull. I am assuming the flanges are glassed over. Is this standard practice on the 382's? On the inside the flange is also covered by a raised area of fiberglass around the thru hull. See photos attached. Is this standard? It will require grinding down the fiberglass to get to the thru hull fitting, on the inside and outside of the hull. And in such tight quarters under the head sink, I am not looking forward to that task. What concerns me most is with this challenging condition I am guessing these have never been replaced. Can thru hulls last 40 years (1982)?
It has been some time since I visited the site. I tried selling Patriot but to no avail. Lots of lookers but no offers. I was selling for lack of use, so the solution, use her more. That is the plan anyway.
Got her hauled for a bottom job and am checking the thru hulls. Some are really hard to cycle. Will try lubricant and heat to see if I can get them to cycle freely. I want to check them to see if I can see any corrosion or color differential maybe showing the bronze is compromised. I was going to sand the bottom paint off the flanges to see how they looked and discovered there are no flanges on the underside, just a clean hole thru the hull. I am assuming the flanges are glassed over. Is this standard practice on the 382's? On the inside the flange is also covered by a raised area of fiberglass around the thru hull. See photos attached. Is this standard? It will require grinding down the fiberglass to get to the thru hull fitting, on the inside and outside of the hull. And in such tight quarters under the head sink, I am not looking forward to that task. What concerns me most is with this challenging condition I am guessing these have never been replaced. Can thru hulls last 40 years (1982)?