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Cockpit drainage, lets try again
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:48:54 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:39:09 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:22:11 GMT, (Richard Casady) wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:18:33 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:20:45 GMT, (Richard Casady) wrote: 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 How close are you to the Gulf Stream? We aren't talking about drunken louts, fishing in rowboats on a small lake in Iowa. What has that to do with anything. I said that Iowa lacked some of the dangers of the open ocean. I am nowhere near the Gulf Stream. It is a big so what? What Iowa does have is boating in 40 degree water. Whatever you do stay out of the water. I don't particularly miss highly corrosive water. Casady Sorry, Richard, but your replies in this thread, and the examples you use to illustrate them, have had little or no direct bearing on the subject under discussion. Most post here have nothing to do with boats, but that is OK in your mind. Casady Nice evasion, Dick. |
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Cockpit drainage, lets try again
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:02:54 -0400, wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:48:54 GMT, (Richard Casady) wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:39:09 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:22:11 GMT, (Richard Casady) wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 06:18:33 -0400, wrote: On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 00:20:45 GMT, (Richard Casady) wrote: 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 How close are you to the Gulf Stream? We aren't talking about drunken louts, fishing in rowboats on a small lake in Iowa. What has that to do with anything. I said that Iowa lacked some of the dangers of the open ocean. I am nowhere near the Gulf Stream. It is a big so what? What Iowa does have is boating in 40 degree water. Whatever you do stay out of the water. I don't particularly miss highly corrosive water. Casady Sorry, Richard, but your replies in this thread, and the examples you use to illustrate them, have had little or no direct bearing on the subject under discussion. Most post here have nothing to do with boats, but that is OK in your mind. Casady Nice evasion, Dick. Fortunately I don't give a rats ass what you think, and you may call that an evasion if you like. Casady |
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