should scupper's exterior be bottom painted?

[fatire]

Re-doing the bottom on my Tournament 19.
The scuppers had bottom paint on them and this just seems wrong or lazy.
I have taken these off/apart and the rubber seems in very good shape so I don't think I need new ones.
Did a quick search but couldn't find answer.

Oh yeah the boat will be in NH salt for 5 months but I don't mind attending to these if they shouldn't have bottom paint on them.

Thanks
Steve

 

[NOTHING ELSE MATTERS]

Are the scuppers below water line?
Are they plastic?

 

[fatire]

Thanks for answering.
Yes they're below the waterline thats why I guess the PO had painted them, or his boatyard had.
They are white plastic ring which sandwiches a rubber flapper against the hull and the the thru-hull scupper drain tube.

 

[NOTHING ELSE MATTERS]

If that is the case, i would get rid of them and install metal ones.

 

[Desperado]

Mine has metal and are painted along the water line.

 

[Fishshoreman]

Mine has metal and are painted along the water line.

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If they are at or below the water line, you don't want the rubber flappers to get fouled and not close properly to keep the water out. Just my two cents.

 

[BobP]

Those flappers don't do much anyway to stop anything but perhaps a big rush - it may slow.

Paint them, outside flappers too !

You may get some barnacles up the bores, but can knock them out end of season.

Plastic hull fittings were never intended to last forever and can sink the boat as they fail, had several of mine fail but never the scuppers, old scuppers were solid.
Plactic thru hulls had failed - cracked just inside the bore, along the bottom 1/2 parallel to hull, I think because exposed to sunlight and degraded from it.

Floor drains never failed though.

I do metal near water line and below, which is two others plus four scuppers.

 

[fatire]

Where can one get these quickly are they a GW special part?
Thanks