Thanks for your excellent write up and pictures of your project. I am collecting the supplies to do my bow locker floors and hawse pipe replacement. I noted that you wrote that you used a 4 inch PVC pipe for your hawse pipe. I measure the OD (outside diameter) of the existing hawse pipe on my boat as 76.45 mm or 3 inches. Can you comment on your findings and if you used an oversized pipe? Someone on this forum suggested using FRP tubing from McMaster Carr but the largest size I can find there is an OD of 3 inches with and ID of 2.5 inches. I am uncertain if and ID of 2.5 inches is large enough. Do you have any thoughts on that?
Thanks for any input or suggestions you might provide.
Gary S. Silver s/v Liahona Amel SM 2000 # 335 Puerto Del Rey Marina, Fajardo Puerto Rico
