I also installed the Garboard drain plug on my LF38 and consider it one of the best winter time improvements I ever made. My first winter I had solid ice up to the floor from water coming down the mast.I just used a right angle drill, small pilot hole then proper sized hole at the lowest point of the bilge. This was about 6 inches above where the keel stub attaches to the lead keek. The hull thickness at that point was less than 1/2"....maybe closer to 3/8"...and the curve of the bilge matched exactly the curve of the keel stub. Much harder to plan drilling a hole in the bottom of a perfectly good boat than actually doing the deed. The bronze fitting has a inset hex nut...it still protrudes too much, but, I've gotten over that. During the sailing season I put a glop of grease inside the hex hole then slather it up with Life Caulk. In the winter I have a plastic barbed fitting that screws into the plug and have a lenght of plastic tubing on the fitting that keeps water from draining down the side of the keel. I also have a length on nylon cordage to wick water from the bilge outside.
$0.02 Spencer Johnson 1984 C&C LF 38 "Alegria" #165 ~~~_/) * ~~~~ Mount Prospect, IL / Racine, WI
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