Another Seacock Question - replacing through hulls and ball valves with Blakes?

[Zing]

So glass reinforced composites are OK?
That'd be Trudesign's description of their material, in a nutshell.

Ho ho, even unfilled polyethylene is fine too, in a dinghy. Then again, not fine in a seacock.

 

[Kukri]

I think Transcur's experience makes a point - the very common type of engine cooling water intake (fitted to most Betas, for instance) in which a through hull is screwed to a gate or (preferably) a ball valve which is in turn screwed to the strainer results in a little bronze "tower" which is very vulnerable to things falling on it.

 

[NormanS]

I think Transcur's experience makes a point - the very common type of engine cooling water intake (fitted to most Betas, for instance) in which a through hull is screwed to a gate or (preferably) a ball valve which is in turn screwed to the strainer results in a little bronze "tower" which is very vulnerable to things falling on it.

I don't think a properly managed boat will have "things" liable to fall.