Plastic fitting for hole

[PhilipH]

I am fitting a Windpilot and have to cut a hole through the vertical part of the transom so that the lines from the vane go through to a block and then on to the wheel. There's a picture of the set up on a sister boat here http://www.windpilot.com/en/Ra/rafoten.html

I cannot find anything similar other than a through hull which could be modified and the biggest of those is about 2 ins diameter. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Clyde_Wanderer]

Check the link, I dont a plastic fitting would be any good for that hole!

 

[damo]

Get something turned up by an engineer or a woodturner and stick it in the hole.

 

[PhilipH]

Ah, I can see what people might have been thinking - the hole I have in mind is in a sub-folder which does not make it to the address - it's in Pacific/Ovni 395.

Oh dear and now peeps will think I was being smutty on the PBO site when that kind of thing is reserved for Scuttlebutt or the Lounge.

 

[rogerthebodger]

That looks like a cockpit drain like a plastic skin fitting with a rubber one way valve.

I have also seen something simular to that used in the motor well of an outboard motorboat that uses wire steering.

Another way would be to use a plastic skin fitting and a rubber boot/bellows from the end of a rack and pinion type car steering to seal between the wire and the skin fitting