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Sea CocksYesterday we spent a lot of the day working on Seacocks. The 50 year old seacocks are frozen. They are beautiful bronze cone, barral type seacocks. And this boat has a BUNCH of them. (14 I think) This particular one supposedly was free in 2014 but of course there was no way to get a hammer in there to pound on it and barely room for a wrench. Taking the jam nuts off was turning 1 flat at a time. I had to dissemble the drawer system in the forward head just to get an arm in behind the wall to do it. The entire process took a couple hours but I did get it free! YEA! There was a second one under the sink that is capped off and one under the v-berth that is for the raw water pump. Equally difficult to get in to. For that one it was two hands through a drawer sized hole about 1 foot wide. But both came free. I used a pully puller to press out the cone and it works great but boy when they release they are under a lot of pressure and they make a satisfying and terrifying POP! when they come loose. Much better than trying to use a hammer on bronze. I have a total of 4 loose and greased and 10 to go. The next two are under the storage locker behind the sink in the galley. I'm not sure I can even get in there. Perhaps I will stand sam on his head and stuff him into the locker to work on it...
It's cooler today and yesterday, in the 50's, and windy. There is a gale warning but I haven't seen winds over 20 knots yet. The water is up 2 feet over yesterday and rain is coming at the end of this week.