Sail drive boot

Where the sail drives exit the boat, there is a hole in the hull that opens up into the under side of the sail drive.  To create smooth flow across this exit hole, Yanmar provides a rubber boot that is intended to be glued over this hole.  Research has shown that this boot doesn't really want to stay on; no matter what glue is used.  As a precaution,  I decided to make stainless steel straps that will screw onto the edges of these boots to hold them on.

here are my straps

I've heard that's it's best to rough the surface of rubber before any sort of bonding......works for bike tubes.

here's my work site

I decided to use 3M 5200 because it's tenacious stuff

I applied 5200 to both the boot and the hull

I screwed the perimeter straps in place

then primed everything with Primocon then hit it with Trilux antifouling just for good measure.

finished results.

We'll see if they stay on.  I'll get back to you in a few years.