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The thread about the leaking CB tackle hose led me to an interesting thought......
Picture, if you will, you are sailing around on a somewhat rainy breezy dark night......not really optimum weather, but the forecast was for better, and there is really no place to put into along the coast where you are. For a while you've been puzzled about the fact that the depth sounder is not working properly, giving really goofy readings. Right about the same time it occurs to you that the motion of the boat is just not feeling right.....you take a good look out in the dark, but the waves seem less than the swaying of the ship would suggest.
Your buddy states that he needs something to nibble on and gets up to go below. Right as he reaches for the bottom step he lets out a shreek and exclaims excitedly that there's a foot of water in the boat.....
Suddenly it all makes sense, the depthsounder, the wallowing motion, it's THE TRANSDUCER!!! Must have popped loose!
You start formulating a damage control plan when at that very moment the water in the boat reaches the top of the hose (the one we've been talking about........
Just mull this scenario over for a litle bit, and then we'll start working on fixing this weak spot in the design......(me I suggest a hose as long as you can fit...
Oscar 250WB#618 Lady Kay on the Chesapeake
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A few years ago my brother was out on Lake Erie wave hopping in his 16ft fiberglass runabout with a friend when suddenly the boat started feeling a little sluggish. When they looked aft they discovered they were taking on water and the stern was sinking. He removed the inboard engine cover and found that the engine was half submerged, yet still running, but water was coming in at an alarming rate.
Immediately, they made a beeline for the nearest boat ramp which was still miles away, and while one drove, the other bailed like a madman to assist the electric bilge pump. They could barely keep up with the in flow and as they entered the nearest marina at full throttle, the stern was awash, the fan belts from the half submerged Volvo inboard were spraying water everywhere like a fireboat on parade, and my brother was still bailing frantically.
They aimed themselves for the nearest boat ramp and sounded the horn to alert the people using it, then drove the boat up and onto the ramp. At the time of this intentional grounding, my brother estimated they could have only gone only another 1/8th of a mile before the engine was totally submerged and with it, the boat.
Upon inspection of the hull, they found a 4ft long 1/4" wide crack had opened up on the bottom of the hull which undoubtedly was caused by him bouncing from wavetop to wavetop.
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