On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 04:43:42 +0000, Gordon wrote:

Red wrote:
OTOH if you're thinking of an object piercing the hull like an ice
pick, having the Kevlar layer on the outside might not make much
difference. In any event, having it on the outside is better than
nothing.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King

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Actually I was just pondering this as there are frequent stories about
the various partially submerged objects such as shipping containers
sinking boats. Since I am getting closer to buying a boat, I wondered if
there wasn't something that could be done to at least reasonably
increase protection from said objects. I realize you aren't going to
make it bullet proof, but any amount of improvement without too much
tradeoff in weight, etc, may be worth it. Peace of mind sort of thing.
Thanks.

Red

Had a friend that put in many, many thousands of miles with at least
7 round trips between New Zealand and Victoria BC.
In that time he hit one container and one sleeping whale. This was in a
homebuilt 33' steel cutter. Both hits in the South Pacific.
The container left a good dent in the bow and the whale bent the rudder.
I guess what I'm trying to say is the chances of hitting something
large enough to cause serious damage is very slight and then probably
wouldn't be catastropic
G


That is somewhere around 45,000 N.M. so if he hit two objects in that
distance it averages one object every 22,000 miles. How many people
will cruise that distance in their whole life.


Bruce-in-Bangkok
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