Lee, Be aware that sea life can foul the pipes leading to your seacocks greatly reducing their cross-section.
I can clean out my thruhulls while afloat by removing the hose and thrusting a sharpened piece of pipe through the open seacock (using a piece of motorcycle innertube to prevent water from flooding in). When you design your pipes perhaps it would be good to position them so you can clean them out like this too. The sea-chest idea is a good one, but it does require some longer hose runs. Norm S/V Bandersnatch Lying Julington Creek FL N30 07.68 W081 38.47 >>Whenever possible (discharge lines) I am planning to weld mild steel pipe directly to holes in the hull and then only adding a seacock to the pipe above the waterline. Of course, for intake lines this is probably not feasible. _______________________________________________ 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
