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On Apr 2, 8:46*pm, HK wrote:
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Wo' Hoppin'...?


there's no description of how or why it bit the drink.

tht last pic. surely that isn't the sunken craft being towed in


is it?

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On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:46:37 -0400, HK wrote:

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Is that one of those low transoms I have been hearing about?


BTW, since he was underway I am guessing he didn't know he was sinking
until he stopped (plugs out?)

I think I would have made a run for the beach that looks a mile or two
away. That boat probably still does 30, full of water. You would just
have to do it and not dawdle.




Looks like one of those wonderful "eurotransom" boats to me. If it is,
that would be the worst of all worlds, transom-wise.

I believe the boat sank because the operator forgot to put in the
transom drain plug.

Maybe a two piece hull boat with a full liner. There's lots of hollow
spaces in some of them thar designs for water.

"John H." wrote in message
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On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:54:05 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:46:37 -0400, HK wrote:


http://tinyurl.com/3dukk9


Is that one of those low transoms I have been hearing about?


BTW, since he was underway I am guessing he didn't know he was sinking
until he stopped (plugs out?)

I think I would have made a run for the beach that looks a mile or two
away. That boat probably still does 30, full of water. You would just
have to do it and not dawdle.


It does look that way. Besides, if it were the plug, wouldn't it self-bail
on the way in?

Didn't appear to have much flotation.
--
John *H*
(Not the other one!)
Hindsight is always 20-20. At some point during that fiasco I would stop
running around in circles and look for a soft landing on shore somewhere and
hightail it.

On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 08:23:53 -0400, "Jim" wrote:


"John H." wrote in message
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On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:54:05 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:46:37 -0400, HK wrote:


http://tinyurl.com/3dukk9


Is that one of those low transoms I have been hearing about?


BTW, since he was underway I am guessing he didn't know he was sinking
until he stopped (plugs out?)

I think I would have made a run for the beach that looks a mile or two
away. That boat probably still does 30, full of water. You would just
have to do it and not dawdle.


It does look that way. Besides, if it were the plug, wouldn't it self-bail
on the way in?

Didn't appear to have much flotation.
--
John *H*
(Not the other one!)
Hindsight is always 20-20. At some point during that fiasco I would stop
running around in circles and look for a soft landing on shore somewhere and
hightail it.

The odd thing is, with all that horsepower on the stern, they could
have powered out of that, gotten the boat on plane and it probably
would have emptied.

I've got to think that something more serious than a plug caused that
- something happened under than boat like a hull breach or some sort.

A plug isn't going to sink the boat - in particular under power.

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 23:54:05 -0500, wrote:

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:46:37 -0400, HK wrote:


http://tinyurl.com/3dukk9


Is that one of those low transoms I have been hearing about?


BTW, since he was underway I am guessing he didn't know he was sinking
until he stopped (plugs out?)

I think I would have made a run for the beach that looks a mile or two
away. That boat probably still does 30, full of water. You would just
have to do it and not dawdle.


It does look that way. Besides, if it were the plug, wouldn't it self-bail
on the way in?

Didn't appear to have much flotation.
--
John *H*
(Not the other one!)

"Gene Kearns" wrote in message
. com...


It looks like at some point (like the first pic) they had the engines
high enough out of the water that it actually was pushing *down* on
the transom...



Hard to tell from the picture sequence. If the first picture is indeed the
first of the sequence, that boat was already sitting low in the water. It
must have been obvious to the operator due to the poor handling. I doubt a
missing plug would fill the boat so fast that he didn't begin to notice the
changed handling "feel".

My guess is they hit something that put a good sized hole in the hull.

Eisboch

"D-unit" wrote in message
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"HK" wrote in message
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This happened to the previous owner of a 26' center console I
once owned.

He explained in detail how the pipe fitting to the under-deck well
came loose and the boat rapidly filled with water. He was several miles
off Jupiter inlet when this occurred and came close to capsizing but
managed
to start the engines put the throttle down and high tail it back to safety
before it was too late.

db



Ha, Jupiter Inlet.

Eisboch (shivers at the thought)

D-unit wrote:
"HK" wrote in message ...
http://tinyurl.com/3dukk9


This happened to the previous owner of a 26' center console I
once owned.

He explained in detail how the pipe fitting to the under-deck well
came loose and the boat rapidly filled with water. He was several miles
off Jupiter inlet when this occurred and came close to capsizing but managed
to start the engines put the throttle down and high tail it back to safety
before it was too late.

db





An under deck live well? I've seen only a few of those on fishing
boats...and when I did, they gave me the shivers.

"HK" wrote in message ...

http://tinyurl.com/3dukk9


This happened to the previous owner of a 26' center console I
once owned.

He explained in detail how the pipe fitting to the under-deck well
came loose and the boat rapidly filled with water. He was several miles
off Jupiter inlet when this occurred and came close to capsizing but managed
to start the engines put the throttle down and high tail it back to safety
before it was too late.

db