[Rhodes22-list] Hole

[Joe Camp]

Charles et al:

     The simple solution I have found relative to laz filling with water when the boat is on a trailer is to be sure your trailer is NOT raised up too high in the front.  When I take the trailer off the hitch, I lower the trailer jack to leave the boat on a basically level plane,  same as when the boat is on the water. When you have the bow too high, a really heavy rain cannot drain out of the cockpit via the seat drains as quickly as the rain falls.  When it backs up, it does so at the stern.  The lip on the laz hatch then allows this overage to escape by (Roger will love this)  THE PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE, which is into the laz.  (I'm no engineer, but a little physics goes a long way, right Roger?)  

    My boat has been on the hard since July 4, and despite some real torrential rains, all I have needed to do is a little sponge cleanup of water from the laz.  And so it goes.

Joe Camp
s/v John Dawson
currently high and dry
in Hatboro, PA
Come May: the Bohemia River, Earleville, MD



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> From: Charles Nieman <blue66corvette at hotmail.com>
>To: Rhodes List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org> 
>Sent: Friday, February 3, 2012 9:20 AM
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>Once upon a time, I drilled a drain hole in that location of my boat (the old one). And I used it just like the motor boats use a drain plug. I did this because I kept my boat on the hard and in that position she had a tendancy to take on water (I think the seat drains would get clogged with dirt and leaves, thus allowing rain to flood the seats and the lazeret hatch was not water tight). I got tired of pumping the laz everytime it rained, this way (since the laz was the low point when on the trailer in the lot I stored in) all I had to do was install the plug and launch. When I had a new bottom job prior to moving to a wet slip, I had the boat yard patch the hole.
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>Charles
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>> From: spreadgoodnews at gmail.com
>> Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 22:09:07 -0500
>> To: rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Hole
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>> Yes, the scuppers exit well above waterline as through hull fittings.
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>> On Feb 2, 2012, at 8:02 PM, KenBates <btskend at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > In addition to the two seat "scuppers"?
>> > Ken
>> > If I could only splell
>> > SV Big Blew
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>> > Spreadgoodnews wrote:
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>> >> 
>> >> I have what looks like a dinghy drain plug hole on the aft transom below
>> >> waterline. Does anyone else have this? Is its purpose to drain the boat
>> >> like a little skiff? I think this is a funny feature and it baffles me
>> >> why anyone would put an unnecessary hole in the hull of a serious
>> >> sailboat.
>> >> Any info or anecdotes appreciated.
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