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Richard Casady

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 14:07:19 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:53:13 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:45:23 -0400, wrote:

You need to be able to get the water out FAST. The cockpit deck needs
to be just above the waterline, with a lot of square footage of direct
drainage that does not involve tubes or hoses. A water filled cockpit
needs to drain in seconds, not minutes. The boat should also be
self-righting.

Only thing wrong with self righting is that half the weight of the
boat ends up as ballast.

Only thing wrong with not self righting is you drown.

You do realize that most boats are not self righting, and the smaller
ones are unsinkable. All the self righting boats sink easily, like
stones. See who drowns. It is easier to fall out of the little Iowa
open fishing and runabout types, and that is a usual way to drown
here. Drunks taking a **** with no PFD. Wood boats are often
unsinkable until you add ballast. I remember when must boats were
wood, inboards were rare, and the outboards were relatively light, as
the biggest were only 35 HP. Sinkings were rare to nonexistant. Nearly
all the boats here still have positive flotation, foam or air tanks.

Casady