[C320-list] Replacing a seacock while in the water

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Hello,
Was wondering if anyone had recommendations for a storm trysail ie dimensions and best vender on west coast San Diego area
Thx
Nic

> On Jun 10, 2014, at 1dprudden <dprudden at comcast.net> wrote:
> 
> With my luck, I'd cross-thread the damn thing...
> 
> ...this definitely would take a few deep breaths and/or shots of liquid courage to start
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Jun 10, 2014, at 2:38 PM, Chris Burti <clburti at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> FWIW... I did this job on our old Cal-27 T/2 changing out a failed gate
>> valve with a proper sea cock...I had a rag and a plug handy, sucked up my
>> courage and simply screwed the old one off, the new one was open and I
>> screwed it on several threads and then closed the valve and finished up. No
>> more than a gallon or two of water came in and the adrenaline rush was
>> exhilarating to say the least.
>> 
>> 
>>> On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 1:47 PM, Dean Vermeire <dean at vermeire.us> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The brass ball valve / seacock on the water inlet for the air conditioner
>>> on Moonstruck II was a victim to the brutally cold winter we had.
>>> Unfortunately, whoever winterized the air conditioner did not get the last
>>> of the water out of the ball valve.  Furthermore, once the boat was on the
>>> hard, the same person failed to open the