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    What are they?

    March 18, 2011

    Newly installed flush fit thru hulls on Dinah.

    We removed all of the old bronze thru hull fittings and replaced them with Forespar Flowtech valves made of carbon fibre reinforced Marelon.  Very cool indeed.  The picture above shows, from left: heads outlet, heads inlet and the (pulled for painting) Airmar triducer which provides depth, speed log and sea temperature.

    Here is the inside view:

    Read on for full details of how we installed the Forespar Flowtech flush fit valves.  Lots of pictures!

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