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Thank you all for the replies. Well the deal has gone through and we are the owners of hull # 42. She is in very good shape, really the only isse is these two stanchions. The previous owner took exceedingly good care of her for the past 44 years and her family were the second owners! How easy is it ...

Tim et al, I will probably be assisting on a Triton reburbishment in the coming months. I have a question about getting access to the stanchions next to the cockpit (forward of the winches). This Triton does not have cockpit lockers, just the below seat cubbies. My thought would be to cut into the t...

Depending on how many you go through MSC has good prices in bulk:

http://www1.mscdirect.com/CGI/NNSRIT?PM ... O=16183771

Figment,

I was suggesting using the bronze fittings to make a fiberglass mold so that you would have a deck support for the bronze fitting. The bronze fitting would then be bedded into the fiberglass and then that would be bedded into the cockpit sole.

Will

Tim, You could you make a fiberglass mold of the bronze fittings that would serve as the deck fitting. Take a circular piece of G10 or something similar that is about an inch larger in diameter than the bronze fitting. Cut the inner diameter out mathcing the bronze fitting. Next set the bronze fitti...

Thanks Tim and everyone for your replies. Getting the old thru hull out is obviously the first step and after reading through the suggestions offered it should be fairly straight forward. After it is out I will inspect the condition of the hole and determine which course of action to take from there...

My old speedo transducer thru hull is 2" OD and the new one is 1.75" OD. I need to do two things to make this work:

1. Remove the old thru hull
2. Reducing the opening size to 1.75"

The hull is solid glass

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Will Museler

That is definately an OI41. I don't see any reason to spend that kind of money on a mars keel especially with winglets. I have a Heritage West Indies 36 and am familiar with the other West Indies Charley Morgan produced. The 36 was the only one that was not of the same generous proportions common to...