Cockpit drain

Some progress today.

First a look at the cockpit drain.

This is the cockpit side. The hole is about 20mm 3/4". You can see how thin the skin is on the cockpit side.

This is the outside of the same hole. What you can see there is the plywood transom behind the fiberglass skin. It's a bit rotted.

If you look carefully you can see the inside of the cockpit side skin. The lighter bit under it is the inside of the boat, the space under the cockpit floor. The light is coming from the open cabin hatches. Anyway this is the problem. This drain is below water level all the time. If water leaks past from either side it falls into the bilge and gradually fills the cabin. Right now it leaks badly.

This is the aluminium tube that slips inside the hole to drain water from the cockpit. It is cut at an angle because the drain hole isn't horizontal, it's drilled at an angle.

These photos show the solution on gypsy.

Gypsy performance sails.

The modified gypsy trailer

Checking gypsy's keel.

Gypsy on trailer.

I've made some spacers for the rudder in bluegum heartwood. I've reused the old hardware. I'll glue the spacers with construction adhesive and of course it needs paint.

The tiller seems a good height and length.

  

The outboard carburettor. Very simple probably japanese. The motor may be a tohatsu even though the plate says made in america. It won't run without choke and won't run at full throttle. It's not getting enough fuel I think.