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On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:38:44 -0400, HK
wrote:

Funniest of all are those who
complain about getting their feet wet
Not as "funny" as you think.

I hate getting my feet wet - seriously,

I will go to extreme measures to avoid it.
I agree with that. Especially when there are some decent CC's
in that size that stay dry and self bail quickly in the even of
a greenie. If I want to get wet, I'll go swimming.

Eisboch
Uh, please explain to me how, if you take a substantial greenie
over the bow while you are in a 21' center console boat:

1. your feet are going to stay dry (unless you lift them up and
put them on the gunnels or console), and,
Yes, which is also why I prefer a seat rather than a leaning post.
Just lift your feet up.


2. the hull is going to self-bail quickly through the rather
small scuppers one typically finds on such boats.

My limited experience has been that the "rather small" scuppers
.... (in many cases not even scuppers, but rather inefficient
drains), are slow to self bail. Doesn't matter in your case
because you like wet feet. I modified one of the open, CC's I
had with some decent sized, real scuppers to rid the deck more
quickly. I don't like walking around the back of the boat going
"splosh, splosh, splosh".

Eisboch
It isn't a matter of liking my feet wet, it is the realization that
in a small, open fishing boat, they are going to get wet. Hell,
when I launch a trailer boat, I don't unhook the trailer strap from
the bow ring until the stern of the boat is afloat. So, how do I
unhook the strap? I walk out into the water and unhook it. At that
point, my feet are already wet.
Harry, you need to work on your technique. I've trailer launched
and retrieved many boats from 16 footers to 26 footers by myself and
never got even a toe wet.

Eisboch

But...it doesn't bother me if my feet get wet...

I know. But to some of us that still boat when the temps are in the
40's .... it matters.

Eisboch

I don't trailerboat in Seattle in the summer.

Harry,
If you learned how to trailer your boat without getting your feet wet,
you might use the Park 'er more than 25 hrs a year.