- Scott
Charleston
--- RSKARAM@aol.com wrote:
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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
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