Re: Self-draining Cockpit etc.


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Posted by Bill Wallace-King on March 02, 2007 at 16:08:50 from 86.141.181.22 user Bill_Wallace.

In Reply to: Re: Self-draining Cockpit etc. posted by Laurence Monkhouse on March 01, 2007 at 11:45:10:

As pointed out earlier in this thread, boats with self-draining cockpits only float because the hoses and jubilee clips securing them to the skin fittings are intact. (Not strictly true in all cases, as in my new boat the drains come out through the transom above the waterline.)

AC-B will I'm sure know the facts, but I'm guessing that self-draining was not fitted to cockpits with a sole so low that the drains would come out below the waterline, as they do on Nancy. It even presents a risk today with modern hose and jubilee clip technology, and so would have been fairly high risk in the thirties.

As to cockpit size, I believe I have sailed on Nancy in the Deben with 6 adults aboard, one of them being your good self (Laurence). I have also sailed her in the Orwell with 4 adults and 4 children aboard, and with 3 adults and 5 children aboard in a good breeze. In all cases the crew used the coachroof and foredeck as well as the cockpit.

It wouldn't be much fun with that many aboard between Secret Water and the Harwich breakwater if there was any kind of sea running. Whilst there was sufficient wind on the last morning of the Secret Archipelago Expedition for a good race back between Wizard and Firefly, I get the feeling they will have had a reasonably comfortable and dry passage back to the Orwell aboard the Goblin.



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