JR North wrote:
Hmmm. Through hulls are usually white nylon above the waterline and
bronze below. Chrome Zamak? Don't think so. Not on my boat, anyway.
JR

HK wrote:


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...rangeholes.jpg


If you look at the transom just above the sharpest point of the vee
bottom, you'll see what looks like a pair of round chrome or stainless
drains.

They're surely below the waterline, so I'm wondering what they drain.
Not the hull under the deck, because if you look closely, you'll see
the usual bronze drain plug at the vee.





Some boats have stainless steel through hulls above the waterline.

Here's a photo of the stern on my Parker. The plug at the vee of the
bottom is bronze, as almost all of them are. The round through hull
below the scupper is stainless and well above the waterline. It is the
drain for the livewell. There's a similar stainless round through hull
on the port side that serves as the drain hole for the bilge pump. The
fuel tank vent on the side of the hull amidships is some sort of
plastic, but that will be replaced this fall with a stainless vent.

On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 09:45:40 -0400, HK wrote:



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...rangeholes.jpg


If you look at the transom just above the sharpest point of the vee
bottom, you'll see what looks like a pair of round chrome or stainless
drains.

They're surely below the waterline, so I'm wondering what they drain.
Not the hull under the deck, because if you look closely, you'll see the
usual bronze drain plug at the vee.

Live well recirculation.

Have the same thing on my Ranger.

On Sep 1, 6:45?am, HK wrote:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...rangeholes.jpg

If you look at the transom just above the sharpest point of the vee
bottom, you'll see what looks like a pair of round chrome or stainless
drains.

They're surely below the waterline, so I'm wondering what they drain.
Not the hull under the deck, because if you look closely, you'll see the
usual bronze drain plug at the vee.

Where does your self bailing cockpit drain?
Are there flaps in the drain that would allow water out, but not in,
when th boat is underway?

Chuck Gould wrote:
On Sep 1, 6:45?am, HK wrote:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...rangeholes.jpg

If you look at the transom just above the sharpest point of the vee
bottom, you'll see what looks like a pair of round chrome or stainless
drains.

They're surely below the waterline, so I'm wondering what they drain.
Not the hull under the deck, because if you look closely, you'll see the
usual bronze drain plug at the vee.

Where does your self bailing cockpit drain?
Are there flaps in the drain that would allow water out, but not in,
when th boat is underway?


The cockpit drains out of four-above-the-waterline holes in the transom.
Those holes have a flap covering them on the outside of the transom.

And, of course, if a lot of water gets in, it can rush out right *over*
the transom, one of the great advantages of a transom cut-out.

HK wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote:
On Sep 1, 6:45?am, HK wrote:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b2...rangeholes.jpg

If you look at the transom just above the sharpest point of the vee
bottom, you'll see what looks like a pair of round chrome or stainless
drains.

They're surely below the waterline, so I'm wondering what they drain.
Not the hull under the deck, because if you look closely, you'll see the
usual bronze drain plug at the vee.

Where does your self bailing cockpit drain?
Are there flaps in the drain that would allow water out, but not in,
when th boat is underway?


The cockpit drains out of four-above-the-waterline holes in the transom.
Those holes have a flap covering them on the outside of the transom.

And, of course, if a lot of water gets in, it can rush out right *over*
the transom, one of the great advantages of a transom cut-out.

Keep telling yourself that, Harry.

On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:53:25 -0400, Dan intrceptor@gmaildotcom
wrote:

And, of course, if a lot of water gets in, it can rush out right *over*
the transom, one of the great advantages of a transom cut-out.

Keep telling yourself that, Harry.

The excitement starts when the engine stops running for some reason.
Then the water just stays there and gets deeper.

Wayne.B wrote:
On Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:53:25 -0400, Dan intrceptor@gmaildotcom
wrote:

And, of course, if a lot of water gets in, it can rush out right *over*
the transom, one of the great advantages of a transom cut-out.
Keep telling yourself that, Harry.

The excitement starts when the engine stops running for some reason.
Then the water just stays there and gets deeper.


I see you are intent on working yourself down to Dan's level, in the sewer.

So tell us, what happens when you have a serious below the waterline
problem, and water starts pouring into the bilge through a hole or a
suddenly gone-south prop shaft? You and your barge make what, a big hole
in the water?