Posted by Dan Lind on March 03, 2007 at 01:45:41 from 64.59.144.24 user captain.
In Reply to: Re: Self-draining Cockpit etc. posted by Bill Wallace-King on March 02, 2007 at 15:38:18:
Well, that posting created some interest: I would have replied sooner, but I on the MARGOLETTA bouncing, wildly, around the San Juans (the Washington State ones). I've owned six sailboats from a 15'Albacore to a 35' Taiwan-built cutter: five had cockpit drains for which I am very grateful. Also, I've make a few voyages from the Vancouver area to Cabo St Lucas at the tip of Baja California in a 38' Taiwan-built cutter, and a US built Hatteras 63: Cockpit drains were very welcome in these cases. The MARGOLETTA has two large cockpit drains without which the bilge pumps would sometimes have to work very hard, and I'd have to bail out the cocpit after rain. Also, cockit drains are very useful when one is scrubbing and washing the salt off a boat.