{"id":118,"date":"2015-03-03T22:30:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T03:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sailnomad.us\/?page_id=118"},"modified":"2015-03-04T00:05:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T05:05:08","slug":"seacock-replacement","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/?page_id=118","title":{"rendered":"Seacock Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"

When we purchased our boat the surveyor missed a few items, one of them was a broken seacock.\u00a0 An obvious piece of advice when buying a boat is to open and close every seacock.\u00a0 The seacock in question was the head discharge, the largest one on the boat.<\/p>\n

I am a big fan of the Compass Marine website, this link<\/a> describes their recommendations for replacing a seacock with no through bolts.<\/p>\n

To remove the old seacock you need a seacock wrench.<\/p>\n

\"Seacock<\/a><\/p>\n

With some effort the flange will spin off.<\/p>\n

Here is the old seacock removed.<\/p>\n

\"Old<\/a><\/p>\n

It seems all new seacocks are triangular while all the seacocks on Mason sailboats are round.\u00a0 This means that the old backing plate had to come off.<\/p>\n

\"Old<\/a><\/p>\n

The backing plates are glued on and come off pretty easily with a couple of taps with a hammer and a chisel.<\/p>\n

When making a new backing plate it helps to have a friend who was once a shop teacher and has built their own home workshop.\u00a0 Charlie Michels made quick work of making a new plate ( he also has a great selection of Dogfish Head beer).<\/p>\n

\"Making<\/a><\/p>\n

\"20140505_153020\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"New<\/a><\/p>\n

Comparison of old and new seacocks and backing plates<\/p>\n

\"Seacocks<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Seacock\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The hull was curved enough where the seacock needed to be seated that I had to go back and sand down the edges to get a snug fit.<\/p>\n

\"Modified<\/a><\/p>\n

Using flange to align backing plate while fiberglassing in (through hull wrench needed again)<\/p>\n

\"Backing<\/a><\/p>\n

New seacock in place<\/p>\n

\"New<\/a><\/p>\n

A healthy amount of BoatLIFE Life-Calk<\/a> was used both around the flange as it was tightened and to seal the seacock to the new backing plate.<\/p>\n

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When we purchased our boat the surveyor missed a few items, one of them was a broken seacock.\u00a0 An obvious piece of advice when buying a boat is to open and close every seacock.\u00a0 The seacock in question was the head discharge, the largest one on the boat. I am a big fan of the … Continue reading Seacock Replacement<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":42,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-118","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4j4f7-1U","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/118\/revisions\/142"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sailnomad.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}