suggestions for emergency air bags to be deployed between watertight bulkheads ?
 

Thank you.
Courtney Thomas
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Rhodes Bounty II
lying Oriental, NC
WDB5619

Subject: suggestions for emergency air bags to be deployed between watertight
bulkheads ?
From: Courtney Thomas

There was a company that made a system much like what you are describing. Can't
recall the name off the top of my head. They are out of business as I recall.
Very costly and took up a lot of space.
I think they used CO2 as the inflating gas.

Of course, if your watertight bulkheads really are, why would you need it? :-)

Capt. Bill

Presumably, the bag on inflation, might prevent a compartment from
filling in the first place. I don't know. I guess it would depend on the
strength of the bag material, the inflation force and at what point it
would be triggered.

Not only that, if you had a long way to travel before repair, even if
the bulkheads didn't leak, the boat presumably would handle poorly with
water aboard vis-a-vis air.

Plus, redundancy is good :-)

I am also assuming foam installation as well.

Thank you for your interest,

Courtney



LaBomba182 wrote:

Subject: suggestions for emergency air bags to be deployed between watertight
bulkheads ?
From: Courtney Thomas


There was a company that made a system much like what you are describing. Can't
recall the name off the top of my head. They are out of business as I recall.
Very costly and took up a lot of space.
I think they used CO2 as the inflating gas.

Of course, if your watertight bulkheads really are, why would you need it? :-)

Capt. Bill





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s/v Mutiny
Rhodes Bounty II
lying Oriental, NC
WDB5619

the company that made such went out of business in one hell of a hurry when it
was shown their product didn't work. I doubt anyone will try to peddle that
product again for quite some time.

Subject: suggestions for emergency air bags to be deployed between watertight
bulkheads ?
From: Courtney Thomas
Date: 9/10/2004 6:23 PM Eastern Daylight Time
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Thank you.
Courtney Thomas
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s/v Mutiny
Rhodes Bounty II
lying Oriental, NC
WDB5619

I think I remember the product was called "Boat Saver" .... It didnt
work !!!! What happened is that on most boats, the hull to deck joint
is not designed structure-wise to contain pressure from the inside-out;
In all the cases of testing when the bag inflated when the boat was
submerged, the deck to hull joint failed, the joint was compromised,
the bag 'escaped' through the newly created hole in the joint, .... and
the boat sank anyway.



In article , LaBomba182
wrote:

Subject: suggestions for emergency air bags to be deployed between watertight
bulkheads ?
From: Courtney Thomas

There was a company that made a system much like what you are describing.
Can't
recall the name off the top of my head. They are out of business as I recall.
Very costly and took up a lot of space.
I think they used CO2 as the inflating gas.

Of course, if your watertight bulkheads really are, why would you need it? :-)

Capt. Bill

Nothing to do with the subject, but that sorta reminded me of the time a
dockhand at one of the St Maarten charter companies tried to drag a liferaft
out of a storeroom by it`s lanyard- absolutly hilarious.........if it wasn`t
you who was trapped in the-))
Bob
Rich Hampel wrote:
I think I remember the product was called "Boat Saver" .... It didnt
work !!!! What happened is that on most boats, the hull to deck
joint
is not designed structure-wise to contain pressure from the
inside-out;
In all the cases of testing when the bag inflated when the boat was
submerged, the deck to hull joint failed, the joint was compromised,

yachtsaver, as I recall.

I think I remember the product was called "Boat Saver" .... It didnt
work !!!!

Search the archives for some past discussions on this. I think one good idea
was to fill that area with empty but sealed 2 liter coke bottles. Someone
actually marketed a system like you described, but they went out of
business.

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"Courtney Thomas" wrote in message
...
Presumably, the bag on inflation, might prevent a compartment from filling
in the first place. I don't know. I guess it would depend on the strength
of the bag material, the inflation force and at what point it would be
triggered.

Not only that, if you had a long way to travel before repair, even if the
bulkheads didn't leak, the boat presumably would handle poorly with water
aboard vis-a-vis air.

Plus, redundancy is good :-)

I am also assuming foam installation as well.

Thank you for your interest,

Courtney



LaBomba182 wrote:

Subject: suggestions for emergency air bags to be deployed between
watertight
bulkheads ?
From: Courtney Thomas


There was a company that made a system much like what you are describing.
Can't
recall the name off the top of my head. They are out of business as I
recall. Very costly and took up a lot of space.
I think they used CO2 as the inflating gas.

Of course, if your watertight bulkheads really are, why would you need
it? :-)

Capt. Bill





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s/v Mutiny
Rhodes Bounty II
lying Oriental, NC
WDB5619