The adding a ring is not for the faint of heart. You can also get a diver
with the plumbers putty to place around the shaft where it comes through the
fiberglass.

I always suggest a backup plan anytime you work on a boat with a flooding
possibility. Sometimes things crumble from corrosion in you fingers.


"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
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DSK wrote in
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BTW a useful trick is to get a 5lb pkg of plumber's putty and build up a
cofferdam in the bilge, so that instead of flooding the whole bilge, you
only flood half (or hopefully less).

That's not "flooding"....That's FLUSHING! Dump a little bilge cleaner in
there with it, too!...

Geez, if there's oil in there, too, do it late at night so the greenies
down the dock don't get all hyper.....