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It sounds crazy but when they designed Indioko, they drilled 17 holes through her hulls, under the water line!

Thru-hulls serve to bring sea water in and out of the boat for tasks like flushing the toilets and keeping the engines cooled but every one of these is a potential sinking problem. In Indioko’s case, all 17 are original, 20 years old and corroding badly. Believe it or not, we have been taking on water since we left the Caribbean and rely on our bilge pumps to evacuate the rising tide inside our floating home daily.

We plan to replace all these corroded metal thru-hulls with modern ‘Trudesign’ plastic fittings that are more resistant to corrosion and far less likely to fall apart in our hands or jump out the boat if we are ever hit by lightning.

Each thru-hull consists of an external skin fitting, an elbow joint, a stopcock valve and a hose-barb adapter.