RE: picture in the brochure
Eric Johnson (ej@blarg.net)
Wed, 12 May 1999 17:57:53 -0700
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West Wight Potter Website at URL
http://www.lesbois.com/wwpotter/
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> Maybe someone can explain this one: why do the pictures in the Potter
> brochure show the P-15 and P-19 floating so high and dry even though they
> have large holes drilled in the hull? It looks like the water
> wouldn't even
> be touching the flotation in the P-15. Is it possible to levitate the boat
> out of the water by drilling even bigger holes in the hull?
An unladen potter doesn't weight much, and the fiberglass displaces quite a
bit on its own, so it doesn't take a whole lot of floatation to do that.
Also, since they have such high freeboard, its likely that theres quite a
bit of hull under water.