thru hulls

[RichieOT]

replacing

 

[Ky Grady]

Have fun!

 

[DennisG01]

Thanks for the heads up. Let us know how it works out.

 

[Sailfish]

Step one: Remove boat from water

 

[Fishtales]

shortest description of work ever...

 

[Blaugrana]

Hope he closes this thread out with a detailed summary of the work, something along the lines of “Job done”

 

[TopsulTime]

p/u '05 282 - 2 wks

inspect:
thru hulls

tubes

flood drains

 

[glacierbaze]

I'm guessing that was a search attempt.

 

[Sailfish]

Step Two: Locate friend with eight foot long arms that are half an inch thick

 

[TopsulTime]

The archived brochure for the soon to be mine '05 Sailfish 282 says the thru hulls are chrome over bronze. I'll inspect them but they likely won't need replacing...will they? The cockpit deck drains are the white plastic so I'm anticipating having to replace those. Not sure about the tubes yet, it WAS a freshwater boat. If I switch to ss deck drains I think it would make sense to do the tubes even if they still look good.

Thoughts.

 

[DennisG01]

The archived brochure for the soon to be mine '05 Sailfish 282 says the thru hulls are chrome over bronze. I'll inspect them but they likely won't need replacing...will they? The cockpit deck drains are the white plastic so I'm anticipating having to replace those. Not sure about the tubes yet, it WAS a freshwater boat. If I switch to ss deck drains I think it would make sense to do the tubes even if they still look good.

Thoughts.

It's highly unlikely that you'd need to replace the bronze thru-hulls for functional reasons. Bronze is the most durable metal used on boats. Now, chances are the chrome is pitting away, or at least starting to - but that's just aesthetic.