My cockpit drains in 68 seconds.... from completely full to the coamings to
empty. Aprox. 5 gallons drained/leaked into the bilge. Done in fresh water
with 2 divers and a gas pump. Double 2" hoses and a 6 inch head.

Any of you engineers care to calc the volume of my cockpit via that claim?
;-)


CM

"Simple Simon" wrote in message
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| My cockpit measures . . .
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| Five feet long, by two feet wide by 16 inches deep.
|
| Let's figure the total area that can flood with water in
| boarding sea conditions. Five times two is ten times 1.5
| (rounding up a couple inches) equals fifteen cubic feet.
|
| A cubic foot of water weighs 52 pounds, fifteen times
| 52 equals 780 pounds. That's a lot of weight - about
| the same as four men in the cockpit. It won't swamp
| or sink the boat but it will put the transom down about
| four inches.
|
| Now you do some measuring and calculate the volume
| of water that fancy pants C&C 34 XL can hold. I bet
| it's an order of magnitude of mine times at least five because
| in its case you've got to figure the volume including the
| coamings because it doesn't have a cut out in the transom
| like my fine, seaworthy Coronado has. Any boarding wave
| will quickly pour out the "Cut the Mustard's" transom while
| a crummy C&C 34 XL cockpit will fill to the top of the
| coamings and the water will stay there until it all can drain
| from what are probably very inadequate scuppers prone to
| becoming plugged up. Before it can even think of draining
| all the way here comes yet another wave to fill it up to the
| top again. Bwahahahahaah!
|
| If my fine yacht can hold 800 pounds of water in her
| cockpit they your precious 34XL can probably hold
| 4000 pounds - enough to sink the stern and keep it
| sunk. Think again about your cockpit parties at the
| dock. Are they worth it when your "perfect" boat isn't
| even seaworthy?
|
| S.Simon - knows all facets of sailing and dangers thereof.
|
| "Bobsprit" wrote in message
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| Most of us sail coastal waters where a tiny blue water style cockpit is
| pointless. Capt. neal's cockpit is 7 feet long.
|
| RB
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