| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 648.1 | Keep'em closed as mush as possible | PUNDIT::MCWILLIAMS | | Tue Sep 15 1987 15:32 | 21 |
| We always keep all Seacocks closed except when in use !!!!
I have twice had problems with siphoning on the head lines, once on the
outlet, once on the inlet, and woke up twice in the middle of the night
to an 1" of water on the cabin sole.
This has made us believers in preventative solutions as above.
The only people I know who leave a seacock open is my neighbor at
the mooring, who has a Tartan 30, with the bilge pump connected
to the sink outlet. It's a bad design, and he will be changing it
next season (he just bought the boat.)
Our bilge pump vents above the water line, as do our cockpit scuppers.
It may be a little more to teach guests how to turn on the seacocks
for the head, but at least we won't have happen what happened to
Bill Buckley's boat.
/jim
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| 648.2 | Wooden Bungs | RDGE43::BARKER | Life on the Ocean Wave... | Wed Sep 16 1987 04:54 | 13 |
| If you don't regularly close the seacocks, for whatever reason,
do make sure from time to time , that they still do close.
Jammed seacocks can be very expesive & troublesome to fix and
if you have a fractured pipe in the middle of the night in a force
8 and can't close the seacock.......
Offshore racing regulations insist that you carry a supply of wooden
bungs to stuff in the holes left by a broken pipe or a disintgrated
seacock. These should be taped to the pipes by the seacock.
Not many cruising yachts have these, but for just a few pounds
(dollars!) they could be a lifesaver.
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| 648.3 | | CASAD4::THOMAS | | Wed Sep 16 1987 12:09 | 10 |
| I leave the cockpit scupper drains open but close the engine intake
seacock. I always had some concern about leaving the scuppers open.
I also close the fuel line valve and disconnect the battery.(No switch
in the circuit).
Don't like being pessimistic but I try to assume things will break
and plan accordingly.
Ed
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| 648.4 | An ounce of prevention... | VICKI::MONTIVIRDI | | Mon Sep 21 1987 13:46 | 7 |
| I once left the cockpit scuppers closed, came back after a
couple of days of heavy rain, and found the boat riding
several inches lower in the water and a cockpit swimming
pool. I now close everything, but the cockpit. I also
agree with .2, you should have soft wood bungs (sic) taped
to the side of the seacock.
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