Seacock removal / blanking

[markc]

I have just converted the toilets to fresh water flush and now I have 3 redundant seacocks. What's best practice for these, i.e. should I have them removed and the holes glassed up, or should I replace with some kind of blanking incase I need to re-instate? Or just leave them closed and cable-tied to prevent them being opened accidently?

 

[Boathook]

Leave closed and cap the open end.

 

[Mr Googler]

I’d glass it up. They will be forever forgotten about now

 

[jfm]

Yup, glass up imho, using a "rivet" of GRP or epoxy. Not urgent of course - at next haul out.

 

[MapisM]

I would also glass the holes, but not before thinking carefully if they couldn't be useful for other purposes.
For instance, off the top of my head I think that the guest cabin toilet in the Fer 165 is in a position which may be good also for transducers.

BTW, out of idle curiosity: you've got 3 redundant seacocks because you are converting also the crew cabin toilet, or do you have one in each ofof the two guest cabins?
That was a somewhat rare option on your boat, whose standard layout had the master bathroom shared with the stbd guest cabin.
Possibly the only thing I didn't like BTW, in an otherwise great boat.

 

[markc]

I would also glass the holes, but not before thinking carefully if they couldn't be useful for other purposes.
For instance, off the top of my head I think that the guest cabin toilet in the Fer 165 is in a position which may be good also for transducers.

BTW, out of idle curiosity: you've got 3 redundant seacocks because you are converting also the crew cabin toilet, or do you have one in each ofof the two guest cabins?
That was a somewhat rare option on your boat, whose standard layout had the master bathroom shared with the stbd guest cabin.
Possibly the only thing I didn't like BTW, in an otherwise great boat.

Hi. P... It's one of the standard layouts. Large master ensuite, with no secondary access and guest ensuite / shared. The crew cabin has a manual wc, retained as is for emergencies. The 3 seacocks are 2 × seawater intakes and 1 discharge seacock. This has been redundant in my ownership as I think the holding tank was a retrofit and both main bathrooms had separate intake and discharge seacocks. The 4th seacock is the holding tank discharge via diaphragm pump.

Good thought on the transducer, but I can't think of a need, especially as I have a forward looking transducer that I'm not using, which would be ideal to swap out.

 

[MapisM]

Aha, I see. Interesting to hear of a shared ensuite for guest cabins, that's a layout I never came across.
I suppose it's ensuite for port guest cabin, with a second access from the corridor for stbd guest, right?
I've seen two boats (a 165 and a 55, but that's just a name change through the production years), where the toilet on stbd side was shared between the master and the stbd guest instead.
The pro being that nobody must pass through the corridor, and obviously the con is the master shared.
But overall, even if I'm half guessing, I think I'd prefer the layout you've got!

 

[mil1194]

Hi. P... It's one of the standard layouts. Large master ensuite, with no secondary access and guest ensuite / shared. The crew cabin has a manual wc, retained as is for emergencies. The 3 seacocks are 2 × seawater intakes and 1 discharge seacock. This has been redundant in my ownership as I think the holding tank was a retrofit and both main bathrooms had separate intake and discharge seacocks. The 4th seacock is the holding tank discharge via diaphragm pump.

Good thought on the transducer, but I can't think of a need, especially as I have a forward looking transducer that I'm not using, which would be ideal to swap out.

That’s exactly what we had on an older Fairline 50 Fly, a 1991 model. It worked well with the third heads in the crew cabin right on the aft.