The adventures of Yacht Flirtie

"Hi, we are sailing yacht Flirtie's crew, Bruce and Caroline. Welcome to our blog.

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In Rochefort last year we discovered that one of the engine inlet seacocks was weeping whilst closed. Not significant enough to warrant immediate attention but enough to warrant replacement at the next lift out....Now :-(

Rather than just replace the seacock itself we believe in changing the skin fitting and hosetail at the same time because usually they have weakened and showing signs of corrosion.

So here we are having just installed the new ones.



Like we've mentioned in a previous blog, we won't know if we've done a good job until we launch......


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