Roger Long wrote:
Is leaking around the dogs with drips running down the dogs themselves
an endemic problem with 1980 era Beckson plastic ports or will new
gaskets fix them? I'd hate to spend $250 on a whole set of new
gaskets for the boat and still have these annoying little drips.

Don't bother telling me about better ports. That's on the list, just
not for this year.

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Roger Long

I probably have similar Beckson ports on my C&C 37.
I ordered two replacement gaskets from Beckson and they didn't fit.
Right dimensions but way too thick. Beckson never answered my email as
to why they didn't fit.
My leak has stopped so I'm not pursuing it but here are two ideas I've
had for correcting the situation.
On my ports I can see that you can only tighten them down so far and
then you have plastic against plastic. You cannot compensate for
shrinkage in the rubber gasket.
I figured I could grind away a bit of plastic so they could be
tightened further.
Other idea is to run a narrow bead of flexible glue down the center of
the gasket to build it up a bit on the surface the portlight beds
against.