[Rhodes22-list] Re: Cockpit Under Water

[FredkLange at aol.com]

Joe,

I glued a rubber door stopper on the bottom of the hull just forward of the 
through-hull opening for the bottom cockpit drain.  I found the door stopper 
creates enough vacuum in the drain to keep the cockpit dry for any number of 
people with just the slightest forward motion of the boat. Plus, when a storm 
wakes you at night, you don't worry about whether you pulled the drain plug.

Fred

In a message dated 7/8/03 12:01:12 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
rhodes22-list-request at rhodes22.org writes:

> Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 11:40:30 -0400
> From: "Ware, Joseph W." <joseph_ware at merck.com>
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list Cockpit Under Water
> To: "List Rhodes (E-mail)" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
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> I was out this past week with 7 people on board.  4 adults and three kids.
> We had tons of wind, and had the genny furled from 100% down to 10% and
> still brought water over the rail, as well as across the bow.  My question
> is, with this many people in the boat, we had water in the cockpit all day.
> Is this normal, and is there any way to change the balance forward to
> eliminate the stern from sitting so low?
> 
> Joe
> s/v Whisper
>