seacocks

Hi and thank you for reading. I am close to purchasing a '83 Hunter 34 and I am compiling a list of safety requirements to make the boat safe for a passage over the Columbia Bar (mouth of the Columbia River in Oregon - The graveyard of the Pacific). I am looking at how many seacocks I might have...

Hi all, This is the photo of my stuffing box. As you can see it has a pipe to a seacock that I guess it is for cooling the stuffing box...but I have not idea. So questions are: What is this pipe for? should the seacocks be always open? Maintenance of the stuffing box: I have read that when I...

Looking for learned opinion on the practice of screwing seacocks with female NPT fitting to mushroom thru-hull's that have a male NPS thread pattern. Every instinct I have tells me that it is wrong and frankly dangerous below the waterline however my 2007 H44AC has that on all of it's...