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Originally Posted by Rockinar
My boat has one and Im thinking of having it removed when I have my seacocks and through holes redone. Seems like they would just prevent you from plugging it from the exterior in an emergency, and from the interior, same thing. You can use a SEABUNG to plug from the outside in an emergency, but not with that strainer. Also barnacles grown in there and you cant really clean them off with the filter.
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Your boat is an SV or an MV?
The 'experts' argue that that style of exterior strainer was really designed for
motor vessels, not sailers. The 'appropriate' exterior strainer for a sailer is a strainer that lies flat to the surface of the
hull.
But the reality is that not a few boatbuilders fit such strainers to sailers.
Plugging from the exterior is beyond my grasp on a sailing cruiser. I've never contemplated doing that.
As for bio-fouling inside the strainer, when I
haul out for bottom
work I remove the strainers (I have two, on a sailer). Then I antifoul the
hull, including the hull that will be covered by the strainer. In the one or two instances when I've been voyaging to a jurisdiction such as
Australia, which can and will inspect the hull for fouling, I've even swabbed a little antifouling into the thru-hull fitting. Then I re-attach the exterior strainers.