Skin fitting - need to remove it.

[SeaStu1]

I have a plastic skin fitting fitted on the transom just above the water line which I no longer need. It was part of the drainage for the cockpit after the outboard well had been glassed over. Now I'm reinstalling the cockpit well the water in the cockpit which previously drained through a hose and out through the skin fitting will now drain into the well.
Previously a hose had been installed which spanned the glassed over well, into a void between the well and transom and onto the skin fitting.
Because the skin fitting is so near to the waterline if it was left in when the weight was on the stern water would enter the fitting, through the hose and into the prop end of the well.
I'm loathed to remove and glass over the skin fitting, if only in fear of my glassing skins not looking too pretty. Any ideas?

 

[Deleted member 36384]

Attach a short length of hose and place a wooden bung in the hose. Use hose clips in the normal fashion to retain the short length of hose to the skin fitting and the wooden bung in the hose. I have a redundant skin fitting and it is blocked like this.

 

[GrumpyOldGit]

change it for a brass one and put a stop end cap on the threaded end inside, then it will be impervious to water and you can polish it up to look like it does something.
Used that system to install a passerelle and it looked the dogz cogz

 

[oldbilbo]

Brass....?

 

[VicS]

Brass....?

Dezincification resistant brass .... but hardly necessary above the w/l

 

[CelebrityScandel]

Any good plumbing wholesaler, supplier of industrial plastic pipe fittings or a good supplier of pipe fittings to the marine industry will be able to supply you with a fibre reinforced plastic socket which you can screw one end of onto the existing fitting and a fibre reinforced plastic plug to screw into the other open end of the socket after doing so. These will be of equivalent quality as your existing fitting and are basically destruction proof by mechanical means (and generally of minimum rating of at least 150 psi).

Use PTFE thread tape or a liquid thread sealant designed for plastic fittings.