Cockpit Scuppers

[Skylark]

Has anyone removed the bronze cockpit scuppers? The ones on my CD 36 weep when it rains and should be rebedded.

[rorik]

Mathilda’s scuppers leaked and when I started to remove them, realized that they had actually been bedded with resin into a cone shaped hole.
My solution was to use standard mushroom thru hulls without the debris guard (higher flow) bedded in 4200. On the underside I epoxied an iroko backing plate after making the fiberglass flat.
The hoses had originally run straight down from scupper to thru hull; now they are crossed.
Yes there is a tiny bit of standing water around the scupper now and it does collect a little dirt.
But there’s no chance of a leak now unless the cockpit sole breaks.

[Chrisa006]

Mathilda’s scuppers leaked and when I started to remove them, realized that they had actually been bedded with resin into a cone shaped hole.
My solution was to use standard mushroom thru hulls without the debris guard (higher flow) bedded in 4200. On the underside I epoxied an iroko backing plate after making the fiberglass flat.
The hoses had originally run straight down from scupper to thru hull; now they are crossed.
Yes there is a tiny bit of standing water around the scupper now and it does collect a little dirt.
But there’s no chance of a leak now unless the cockpit sole breaks.

Doesn't crossing the hoses lead to them not draining if heeled?

[rorik]

Not at all.
When I was 16 my father and I crossed the channel from Old Bursledon to Le Havre in a gale aboard a 36’ Gauntlet.
Her hoses were crossed. Cockpit emptied perfectly.

[Skylark]

I hope they are not bedded with resin. Looks like there is white between the glass and bronze.

[rorik]

In my case things were brittle enough that all I had to do was gently twist and rock from below with a pair of vise grips. I wasn’t concerned about marring the tube portion as I knew they were being replaced.