Jim wrote:

"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:14:17 -0400, "Reginald P. Smithers III"
wrote:

LOL, Harry you sure seem to be hung up on this transom thing.
You noticed that also. Methinks he is a mite sensitive perhaps.

Not to worry though, Harry has told us many times how experienced he
is and there's no reason to doubt it that I know of.

http://www.newsargus.com/news/archiv...escued_at_sea/




My comments on this transom thing is based on personal experience. I
swamped a small boat once, back in my teenaged years and it was on a
fresh water pond, flat as a pancake with no other influences on the
boat other than my stupid operation of it.

I was pulling a skier and she fell, but didn't immediately let go of
the tow line. I immediately made a hard turn, while pulling the
throttle back. The resultant wake wave hit the boat on the stern
quarter and filled the boat with well over a foot of water in a
nanosecond. There was no way I could move it with the engine without
more water pouring over the open transom.
The engine then quit, the boat became extremely unstable, in danger
of flipping so I slid into the water. The skier and I then swam
back to the nearby shore, slowly pulling the swamped boat with us
with the tow line.

When it happens on a small boat, it happens fast.

Eisboch


Yes, when I was about 10, I momentarily swamped an 8' plywood pram
which we had overloaded with a friend's 10 hp outboard. Boat would
only plane with a friend in the bow. Stopped the boat suddenly, wake
came rushing over the little stern. Lesson learned: when you come off
plane in a small boat, goose the accelerator a little to stay ahead of
the oncoming collapsing wake.

On the other hand, if you ram your 49' trawler onto one of the
uncharted underwater rocks around the Thimble Islands, guess what?
You're probably going to sink the boat. That 9' tall transom won't
save you.


Harry,
Read what Pasco says about boat sinkings.
http://www.yachtsurvey.com/sinking.htm Remedy the flaws that you can.
Then invest in the best life jacket and EPIRB you can afford.
Safe boating.



There are thousands of reasons why boats swamp or sink. Some of these
are the result of bad design or bad materials or bad construction. MAny
more are the result of operator error. Some just happen. I'm always more
concerned about my safety on this country's highways than I am while I
am piloting a boat.

I've got six of the proper lifejackets on son of Yo Ho, plus a Mustang
auto inflatable for my wife and me. I just bought a McMurdo epirb for
the new boat. It has a built-in GPS transmitter. Of course, if I boated
on Lake Lanier, I could just walk to shore on the decks of the 93,000
boats on that little bit of water.