I need a few oddball pieces of fiberglass for some work I am doing on my sailboat.I could use other materials but I would prefer solid fg if I can find it. One is that I need 3 or 4 feet of pipe/tube that has an ID of around 1.5". I actually need a couple of 1' pieces and one or two that are about 8". The other thing I am looking for is 3 flat fiberglass panels maybe 1/4" thick and about 1' x 2'. Such things are available but in low quantities as raw materials are quite expensive. I think I have seen some yard tools with the pipe as handles and the panels shouldn't be that hard to find as salvage if I could find a boat salvage yard. but there doesn't seem to be one locally. Any ideas or other sources?
For the curious, the pipes are for a couple of different things. One is as rod holders mounted inside the transom that would hold steel tubing (which I currently have in a wood base) that support a mast/boom crutch and the other is for cockpit drains through the transom. My boat only has one cockpit drain and it is near the front. Besides the worry about getting swamped and not having it drain out quickly, it is a pain at the car wash. The boat is tilted slightly back on the trailer so it doesn't drain the cockpit unitl it has a couple of inches of standing water while on the trailer. The panels are for making a small storage locker. I want fg so I know it won't rot and will be easy to attach to the existing fg (using thickened epoxy) and seal it. PVC (and plastic in general) doesn't do so well.
For the curious, the pipes are for a couple of different things. One is as rod holders mounted inside the transom that would hold steel tubing (which I currently have in a wood base) that support a mast/boom crutch and the other is for cockpit drains through the transom. My boat only has one cockpit drain and it is near the front. Besides the worry about getting swamped and not having it drain out quickly, it is a pain at the car wash. The boat is tilted slightly back on the trailer so it doesn't drain the cockpit unitl it has a couple of inches of standing water while on the trailer. The panels are for making a small storage locker. I want fg so I know it won't rot and will be easy to attach to the existing fg (using thickened epoxy) and seal it. PVC (and plastic in general) doesn't do so well.