i've thought about that too as i never liked the design of those scuppers.
i think you could take a glob of toilet bowl wax and stick it under the hull to close up the hole outside, then make the repair. my question s how do you put the new hose in as the cockpit floor and thru hull fittings leave you with no clearance to insert the hose in i think? or can uou easily remove the cockpit floor fitting pop the hose in, and the re-insert the fitting?
btw, toilet bowl wax is great stuff to have on-board...it can be molded, stops water flow, etc..
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--- In s227classassociation@..., "uswa174" <uswa174@...> wrote:
Just an FYI for y'all with a 27.
I had a minor, but pesky, water leak in my port lazarette, which I found was coming from a cracked scupper hose and a loose hose clamp. I've been getting water in the lazarette when heeled to port on starboard tack. I always thought that the hoses were a potential failure point, and in fact they are. My hose was pretty well dry rotted and cracked.
Has anyone on this list replaced one of these hoses with the boat in the water? I'm thinking about a short-term fix using a bicycle inner tube repair kit to get me through the rest of the season, then replace the hoses when the boat is on the hard after haul out.
What do y'all think? Anyone else had this problem?
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Dave S.
s/v Clio
1987 S2 27, hull #80
