Conference vicki::boats

     I did the same job by sitting in the dinghy and working underwater.
    Couldn't get up the nerve to beach it *on purpose*.
    
    One of the winter jobs I intend to do is to seal the cuddy floor area
    from the bilge.   Isn't it supposed to drain into the bilge?   Well,
    yes, but between the relatively high location of the bilge pump and the
    fact that they eked out every inch of headroom in the cuddy by dropping
    the floor to below mean bilge water level, I regularly get wet carpet.
    I've heard that this is not an unreasonable thing to do - the risk
    being having to manually bail if water gets in from above.  But I'm
    too chicken to go out and have 8' waves break over the cockpit anyway.

    I've had a couple of boats over the last four years (21' and 25'
    cruisers) and both of them had water drain into the galley from the
    bilge. It seems to be endemic and a damnmmmmnm nuisance.
    
    The only way I ever get water there is 1) rain getting through the
    hatch, but with the bimini up it should be pretty rare, and 2) draining
    in from the bilge.
    
    Last year, on my 21 footer, I blocked up the hole and had a dry floor
    for the rest of the season. I'm going to do the same with the 25
    footer, now.
    
    Anyone else had this problem?
    
    I thought of putting an automatic pump there, but it's too difficult
    and expensive for small return.......
    
    Ray

    The forward bilge in my grady is well below the level of the floor in
    the cuddy, in fact you get to it by openning a hatch in the floor.
    Sounds like a poor design to me...of course a Grady White is made
    to get wet or wouldn't be any fun :-)
    
    Bruce

    How many Consulting Engineers does it take to replace a transducer?
    
    /brett

re        <<< Note 760.4 by DECWET::HELSEL "Legitimate sporting purpose" >>>

>    How many Consulting Engineers does it take to replace a transducer?
    
>    /brett



	Funny you should ask that......

	Lessee, first we'd have to have an architecture for the 
transducer itself  - -  presumably that would conflict with the 
vessel's own architecture, but we could get a waiver on the grounds 
that single instantiations are special cases.  Then an architecture 
for the service delivery process, but we can't deliver any service 
until we have our infrastructure and tools architecture in place,
so.....  a) a diagnostic architecture for fault isolation to the most
economic field replaceable unit  b) a repair, replace or substitute
architecture to figure out if its worth messing with, replacing with
the right part or just using whats at hand   c) a whole logistics
architecture to cause the generation 93 digit part numbers that can't
be cross referenced and are always superceeded by another part number
that is no longer available.  d) training/education architectures for 
....gee, I dunno  - -  so people can be trained to change transducers, 
or is it so they can understand the other architectures ?

	Cutting across all this would be security architectures to 
ensure that only tranducers authorized for replacement are replaced, 
by authorized replacers, on vessels authorizes for transducer 
replacement  ....we can't have any tranducer horses, worms or viruses 
getting introduced into the system, can we ?   Then there's the 
accounting architecture to ensure that charge backs are properly 
mangaged  - -  another way of saying that everyone in the system gets
a fair cut at the customer's wallet. 


	.......should I go on ?

    
    
    	Reg,
    
    		How many times did you fall off the tube this weekend?
    
    	Rick