Typhoon drain plug on keel

[seadug]

My Typhoon has a small drain plug on the starboard side of the keel. Were these factory equipment or is that something a previous owner added?

[swhfire21]

My '74 does not have one, if that helps.

[Jim Buck]

Depends on whether your Ty is a weekender or daysailer. My '76 daysailer had the drain installed by the factory while neither the '74 or '79 weekenders had one.

[Oswego John]

Jim asked the same two questions that I was going to ask. What model Ty and what year? I don't recall ever seeing a keel drain plug on a "D" model Weekender.

Think spring,
O J

[seadug]

It is a 73 weekender.

[Dick Villamil]

evidently somebody must have installed the garboard drain to let water out of the keel area. My 1976 Typhoon had water sit in it over a couple of winters before I bought it. The result was that the expansion from freezing caused the fiberglass/epoxy to separate from the lead ballast and eventually cracked the hull in the keel area. I did not install a garboard drain but actually filled in the voids with resin. The garboard drain is an excellent way to get all the water out after it has been hauled in the fall.