P-15 Knockdown and cockpit drain
Bruce Hood (bhood@sunset.net)
Fri, 08 Oct 1999 13:28:17 -0700
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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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My experience of a knockdown was very similar to the other recent
post...
sails flat on the water, cockpit suddenly with twenty gallons of bay
water
in it ( but none down the hatch.. on a relatively calm day..)
Aillte popped back up after the gusts that had caused the knockdown
passed on over, then after pulling
the plug in the transom , a ten minute wait for the water to drain.
I since have enlarged my cockpit drain a little, and I think Joe
McWilliams
put a large drain in the cockpit of his P-15, since he knew he would be
sailing on the Texas gulf and get some water on board..
For those of us who have Walter Mitty like dreams of crossing blue
water in our little P-15's , improving the self-draining for the cockpit
would probably be a good idea..
Beautiful sailing weather in Northern California just now 80 degrees and
light winds in the Sacramento Valley, and clear skies as the forest
fires seem
to be under control and on the way out now..
Cheers..
Bruce
Bruce Hood, P-15 "Aillte", sail no. 1246