Just use thickened epoxy to seal thru hulls?

john_morris_uk said:
Lightening a Hurley 22? A Jabsco compact weighs 10.8 kg

Opinions differ as to whether a toilet makes sense on such a boat. Our daughters Pandora 700 has a proper sea toilet (with Blake’s seacocks too!)

His choice though. I assume he sails alone.
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I’m going to use a carbon fibre bucket instead ; )
 
john_morris_uk said:
It ticks the box of not leaking but that sounds like a right mess of a job. A complete bodge IMHO.

Sorry to be blunt.

And why on earth did he remove the heads?
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Blunt is fair.

It allowed him to use the seacocks if he ever changed his mind.

It was a scruffy boat to begin with.

Just shutting the seacocks and would have sufficed; but he wanted the outside sealed off for some reason.
 
Cerebus said:
Blunt is fair.

It allowed him to use the seacocks if he ever changed his mind.

It was a scruffy boat to begin with.

Just shutting the seacocks and would have sufficed; but he wanted the outside sealed off for some reason.
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Understood. It just goes against the grain for me to make a scruffy boat even scruffier.
 
john_morris_uk said:
Understood. It just goes against the grain for me to make a scruffy boat even scruffier.
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To be fair, a 5x5 inch piece of woven Matt grp epoxied over a skin fitting and then antifouled and below waterline did not show too much if at all.

The varnished wooden box I made and glassed over the seacock looked quite well done I thought and meant the seacocks could be used again, if wished.

So perhaps I made it look scruffier or perhaps I did not.

It was certainly a quicker job and not as permanent as removing seacocks and skin fitting and filling a hole and I would have backed the hole inside with a piece of plywood.

I think the loo should have remained too.

Perhaps someone will refit one, one day.
 
Cerebus said:
To be fair, a 5x5 inch piece of woven Matt grp epoxied over a skin fitting and then antifouled and below waterline did not show too much if at all.

The varnished wooden box I made and glassed over the seacock looked quite well done I thought and meant the seacocks could be used again, if wished.

So perhaps I made it look scruffier or perhaps I did not.

It was certainly a quicker job and not as permanent as removing seacocks and skin fitting and filling a hole and I would have backed the hole inside with a piece of plywood.

I think the loo should have remained too.

Perhaps someone will refit one, one day.
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So not only did you make a lashup of the sealing of the seacock, you glassed in a box covering it so it can't be inspected?

The gift that keeps on giving.
 
Surely making up a varnished wooden box is a much more complicated and fiddly job than just whacking some resin and mat in a hole 🤷‍♂️. Oh well, it's done now!
 
I removed a log fitting on the little boat possibly 35 years ago. I could not cope with constant fouling of the paddle wheel. Used the chaffered edges and patch from each side. Now there is no sign of the repair I only vaguely remember where it was. Must have been a good repair. ol'will
 
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