[Rhodes22-list] Reply to Bud on bilge water

[michael meltzer]

ports, ports, port, and again ports


--- Bud <budconnor at earthlink.net> wrote:

> Thanks for all the suggestions on sources of water
> intrusion.  Now that 
> the Florida weather is drying out,
> I will take a garden hose and check out the
> rub-rails, cockpit, seats, 
> and CB tube.  I have tried searching
> the archives by copying files over and searching
> with an editor, but for 
> me it's a pretty tedious task.
> Rummy, I look forward to seeing pictures of your
> boat (what do you call 
> her anyway?) heeling such
> that the sink fills!
> 
> -Bud Connor
> 
> 
> David Walker wrote:
> 
> >Rummy,
> >
> >You obviously need more barrels of rum in the bilge
> for ballast.  Maybe Stan
> >has moved the thoughhull, but  I sail on the
> Atlantic and have never come
> >close to getting water backing into the sink.  In
> that case though a higher
> >loop with an air valve would be better than a check
> valve as they add
> >appreciable flow resistance and tend to stick
> closed.
> >
> >Dave
> >David Walker
> >David Walker Photography
> >davidwalkerphotography.com
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: <R22RumRunner at aol.com>
> >To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> >Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2005 11:22 AM
> >Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Reply to Bud on bilge
> water
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> >>David,
> >>You make good points concerning the bilge pump.
> However, I have filled the
> >>sink on Rum Runner on several occasions by running
> at an extreme heal. The
> >>water  runs back out when I right her, but if I
> were to install a bilge
> >>    
> >>
> >pump, I
> >  
> >
> >>would  want a check valve inline somewhere..
> >>
> >>Rummy
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