Boat is a 1968 Pearson Wanderer 30.
The cheesy old fitting I removed:
I think the through-hull is the factory original; the ball valve is a standard big-box hardware store ball valve installed by the PO.
The exterior strainer:
Made a fiberglass pad - estimating how big the circle has to be:
Bandsawed out a circle:
Epoxied the pad into the hull (had to trim one side to allow space for the grounding lug - ignore the wire in the foreground - accidentally got a little epoxy on it):
The beefy new through-hull after installation:
OK, so I didn't get the Sikaflex quite as neat on the inside as shown in MaineSail's tutorial. I figured a bit too much was better than not quite enough. So a lot squeezed out when I screwed the fitting down. I don't think it's going to leak, in any case.
Also bought a nice Groco ball valve to go on the fitting, and will be getting a good-quality sea strainer to install between the through-hull and the engine.
Couldn't have done it and wouldn't have tried it without the great photographic tutorials.
Thanks!
The cheesy old fitting I removed:
I think the through-hull is the factory original; the ball valve is a standard big-box hardware store ball valve installed by the PO.
The exterior strainer:
Made a fiberglass pad - estimating how big the circle has to be:
Bandsawed out a circle:
Epoxied the pad into the hull (had to trim one side to allow space for the grounding lug - ignore the wire in the foreground - accidentally got a little epoxy on it):
The beefy new through-hull after installation:
OK, so I didn't get the Sikaflex quite as neat on the inside as shown in MaineSail's tutorial. I figured a bit too much was better than not quite enough. So a lot squeezed out when I screwed the fitting down. I don't think it's going to leak, in any case.
Also bought a nice Groco ball valve to go on the fitting, and will be getting a good-quality sea strainer to install between the through-hull and the engine.
Couldn't have done it and wouldn't have tried it without the great photographic tutorials.
Thanks!