Peahead
Well-Known Member
Was just doing some routine checks on my Grady 228 this weekend. Scuppers, thru-hulls, seacocks, hoses and clamps.....that sort of thing. I had a seacock remote control arm break off the seacock ( attached to open/close lever) for my raw water wash . It broke off with the seacock in the open position so had to get down in the bildge and reach in with a boat hook to get the seacock closed ( I always like to keep seacocks closed when not in use)
I found a place that I can get new control arms to attach to the seacocks ( so I don't have to pull the live well to get at the well and raw water seacocks ( T-H Marine Suppplies is the place that provides Grady White with these control arms- the new ones are all stainless now so should last many more years)
I found a loose clamp on a scuppper hose as well as a small crack in a scupper drain hose . Seacocks looked ok and grey water thru hulls/hoses and fwd deck drain hoses all good.
Since then I did some searching around for info about what failures happen to sink boats and I found this which I thought had some pretty interesting info.
http://www.boatus.com/seaworthy/sinking/default.asp
I found a place that I can get new control arms to attach to the seacocks ( so I don't have to pull the live well to get at the well and raw water seacocks ( T-H Marine Suppplies is the place that provides Grady White with these control arms- the new ones are all stainless now so should last many more years)
I found a loose clamp on a scuppper hose as well as a small crack in a scupper drain hose . Seacocks looked ok and grey water thru hulls/hoses and fwd deck drain hoses all good.
Since then I did some searching around for info about what failures happen to sink boats and I found this which I thought had some pretty interesting info.
http://www.boatus.com/seaworthy/sinking/default.asp