I don't know if I have the same ports as you, but when I took
ownership of my boat the ports were dripping down the dogs a
little , as you stated. A surveyor told me to lube the rubber
gaskets. I cleaned them and smeared some Vaseline on them. That
stopped the drips.


--
Scott Vernon
Plowville Pa _/)__/)_/)_


"Roger Long" wrote in message
...
My gaskets still have plenty of rubber thickness so maybe they
are
alright.

I took the screens out because my kids were kicking holes in
them as
they climbed enthusiastically around the boat and it wasn't a
bad bug
year. I wonder if the screens are necessary for the gaskets to
stay
tight.

Have you used your ports without the screens?

--

Roger Long



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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.

--

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.