I have a Beneteau 373 with a chain locker at the bow, in which there is a spigot/faucet/valve, allowing a connection to a washdown hose. I bought the boat a year and a half ago, and previously had always used a bucket on a rope to get water up to the deck the old fashioned way, so I've been loving the convenience of a saltwater washdown hose for anchors, chains, as they're retrieved from the muddy depths where I often anchor. All good... EXCEPT that I HATE anything resembling a gate valve on a boat... for various good reasons. If I had my way, I'd have quarter-turn ball valves everywhere... And I almost do... except this one. It's not really a thru-hull, since it goes from the anchor locker through a bulkhead into the cabin. Anyway, I went to open it last weekend, and the handle screwed right off the valve leaving the inner-workings of the valve stuck shut... one of many reasons I hate gate valves. It looks pretty much like this one if you can't picture what I'm talking about:
https://www.defender.com/product3.jsp?path=-1|51|2234222|2234225&id=1811158
Anyhow... on the INSIDE of the boat, behind the bulkhead where it is mounted, mine has what is essentially a bathroom faucet nut, like you'd have holding your bathroom fixtures to the basin or coutertop... a giant nut over the threaded supply pipe. Then supplying that with water is a reinforced hose clamped to a barbed hose fitting. Does anyone have (or know of someone that makes) a quarter-turn (not gate valve!) "spigot" with threaded garden hose fitting on the outside, and a threaded pipe on the back with a sink nut (or basin nut, or whatever you call that) on the back? Basically I'm looking for anything that will allow me to hook up a garden hose, but also shut off from up on deck without going down below to shut off. Supplied by 1/2" or similar hose on the inside... not a soldiered/sweated copper pipe (or pex) fitting like you might have for a house spigot. I can't find such a thing, and I'm not sure I'm using the right vocabulary to get Google to grant me that wish so far. I have a preference for stainless, but could probably live with something else (chromed bronze, etc.). What do others have for washdown hose shutoffs on deck? P.S. I'm looking for a way to shut the plumbing, NOT a way to shut the pump off electrically from up on deck. Thanks.
https://www.defender.com/product3.jsp?path=-1|51|2234222|2234225&id=1811158
Anyhow... on the INSIDE of the boat, behind the bulkhead where it is mounted, mine has what is essentially a bathroom faucet nut, like you'd have holding your bathroom fixtures to the basin or coutertop... a giant nut over the threaded supply pipe. Then supplying that with water is a reinforced hose clamped to a barbed hose fitting. Does anyone have (or know of someone that makes) a quarter-turn (not gate valve!) "spigot" with threaded garden hose fitting on the outside, and a threaded pipe on the back with a sink nut (or basin nut, or whatever you call that) on the back? Basically I'm looking for anything that will allow me to hook up a garden hose, but also shut off from up on deck without going down below to shut off. Supplied by 1/2" or similar hose on the inside... not a soldiered/sweated copper pipe (or pex) fitting like you might have for a house spigot. I can't find such a thing, and I'm not sure I'm using the right vocabulary to get Google to grant me that wish so far. I have a preference for stainless, but could probably live with something else (chromed bronze, etc.). What do others have for washdown hose shutoffs on deck? P.S. I'm looking for a way to shut the plumbing, NOT a way to shut the pump off electrically from up on deck. Thanks.
