Seacock and plank thickness

[cliffordpope]

Should a seacock have any wooden fairing on the outside of the hull, or should the thickness of the wooden backing spacer on the inside precisely take up the excess length of bronze, so that it is flush with the planking?

 

[Roach1948]

I have never seen any wooden fairing on the outside - personally I would not bother. My backing pads are the thickness of the planks 3/4" , chamfered on the top to let water run down and screwed on with stainless screws, bedded with SikaFlex 291. I have made them as long as the space between the frames.

 

[ccscott49]

Backing pads on the inside only, you can put fairing blocks on depth transducers etc.
Backing pads should be just thick enough to allow the bronze neck of the seacock (I guess we are talking blakes here) to be flush with the bronze bolt plate on the outside.

 

[cliffordpope]

Many thanks.