Re: P14 Bilge Drain Plug
RSKARAM@aol.com
Thu, 24 Jun 1999 17:00:46 EDT
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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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Dear Hal -
I would recommend that you not install a bilge drain plug unless you
have some specific reason. One of our wiser contributors (I forget who) used
to make a big deal out of not putting any holes in your boat, especially
below the water line.
On my previous P-15 I didn't have a bilge drain plug, and on my
current P-15 I do have a bilge drain plug.
I never missed not having the plug, never used it when I did have it,
and am constantly preoccupied with the bloomin thing being there under the
water line with the possibility of me or some other person having removed it.
If you turned turtle and took the drain plug out, you would loose the
buoyancy of the trapped air in the boat which could be good, bad or terrible
depending upon the circumstances. If you righted the boat when the bilge is
full of water, your one hell of a swimmer if you can swim under the boat and
remove the bilge plug with the required screw driver.
We all do what we please with our boats, but generally our wonderful
web site offers more solutions that there are problems.
I would make certain I had a real potential problem before I
installed a solution that required a hole under the water line.
Richard S. Karam
P-15 #2098 Oops
Oklahoma City