I am convinced boats are held together by hose clamps and zip ties. I started in the bilge and I have been changing all the hose clamps (and a lot of the hoses) on our boat from perforated to stamped. They were all stainless steel of various quality but I have so far found five that had failed across the webbing. Two fell off when I touched them. All the failed ones showed signs of corrosion and the failures were sometimes out in the open and sometimes under the screw thread.
Here is an example:
I didn’t start collecting them until I was someway through the process but here is my collection to date:
The experts are right when they say these things have no place on a boat.
Here is an example:
I didn’t start collecting them until I was someway through the process but here is my collection to date:
The experts are right when they say these things have no place on a boat.