Being not nearly as strong as Big Ben, my approach is "nothing I can tear off by standing on it". as when struggling to deal with some other approaching disaster.
My seacocks are the W-C flanged base tapered bronze seacocks (equipped with ss grease fittings in place of their drain plugs) and are bolted through their flanges to the hull with bronze carriage bolts. The sea-chest idea Ben described is wonderful. I have even seen such a device placed over the prop on a motor boat to facilitate removing a fouled line from the propeller. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek FL N30 07.68 W081 38.47 > I avoid Marelon like the plague. Nothing that I can tear off by hand - > and I'm a pretty strong guy, so that's a relatively high standard - > belongs below the waterline as a functional system on my boat. Yikes, > even the thought makes me recoil. :) _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://liveaboardonline.com/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardonline.com/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
