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Ultimate skin fittings

Skin fittings are critical items that keep your boat afloat. However, most are designed to be as cheap as possible to manufacture, with the result that handles rust and, even worse, the critical bits that keep the sea where it belongs are made of thin, low grade materials.

Unfortunately it’s often not been possible to identify the difference between these and marine grade DZR (dezincification resistant) fittings on a chandlery shelf – to an untrained eye they can all look like domestic plumbing fittings.