I wonder if anyone has any ideas regarding the following problem:
I sail a Prindle 18-2. In each hull there are these thin pipes that horizontaly go through from left to right. Through these pipes run the elastic ropes (blocked with a knot on the internal side of the opening)that hold the trapeze wire with the dogbone steady (sorry, but I don't know if the pipes have a specific name). My problem is that these pipes have some holes and thus the hull(s) take in water (especially in heavy weather and when capsized). Unfortunately it looks very difficult and "dangerous" to try and force them out to fix them...and it is impossible to reach them from inside the hull! One way of solving the problem would be sealing off the pipe as a whole and tying the elastic ropes somewhere else...Any less "radical" ideas?