Can anyone tell me why I have this hole in my boat?

[Daydream believer]

Emergency escape hatch for a hamster with a very, very small scuba kit?

Do 't be silly! How is a hamster going to get out of his wheel with a scuba kit on --let alone unscrew that great big cap without a set of 22 inch stilsons

 

[PhillM]

It looks very similar to the through hull fittings we used on the Broads Hire Boats. The course engine strainer (big bronze jobbie) screwed directly onto the skin fitting, with the usual smaller pipework coming out the side of the strainer to the engine. Not sure who made them and an internet search is turning up nothing so far...

Jon

I had so thing similar on paean when we brought her. Strainer and sea cock in the same housing. Removed now and replaced so I don't have it to show a photo of.

Engine was a Volvo md and the fitting was overkill, but it was there all the same.

 

[VicS]

Do 't be silly! How is a hamster going to unscrew that great big cap without a set of 22 inch stilsons

Dunno about hamsters but a gerbil would chew it off in next to no time.

 

[JumbleDuck]

Do 't be silly! How is a hamster going to get out of his wheel with a scuba kit on --let alone unscrew that great big cap without a set of 22 inch stilsons

What a 22-inch stilson may look like:

Anyway, you wrap the hamster in sellotape.

 

[Woodlouse]

Pretty sure the original log fitted to the Centaur was a Sumlog which used a spinner rather than a paddlewheel to drive the cable. The hole in the hull wouldn't need to be much more than a 1/2 inch for the fitting.

 

[VicS]

Pretty sure the original log fitted to the Centaur was a Sumlog which used a spinner rather than a paddlewheel to drive the cable. The hole in the hull wouldn't need to be much more than a 1/2 inch for the fitting.

Id have thought so too and its certainly not the fitting for a Sumlog.

An earlier owner may have fitted something different of course.

 

[ibbo]

I am interested to hear the result on this, as I have the same fitting on my Ecume de Mer, it is forward of the main bulkhead, and I assumed it was for a log. Certainly isn't an engine intake up there.

 

[Tam Lin]

Correct, I have just removed mine and it is nothing like the fitting that I am asking about.

 

[Tam Lin]

I am interested to hear the result on this, as I have the same fitting on my Ecume de Mer, it is forward of the main bulkhead, and I assumed it was for a log. Certainly isn't an engine intake up there.

So I am not the only one then!

 

[ibbo]

It seems to be a fairly select club though. I asked the previous owners, going back a few years, and no one had ever used it.