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![]() "Eisboch" wrote in message ... "Vic Smith" wrote in message ... On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 18:50:30 -0400, HK wrote: Yep...standard 25" lower unit. I stated many months ago at the very beginning of the silliness about that transom that the photos were deceiving. But this *is* rec.boats, so ill-informed silliness abounds. I was thinking that your boat's natural buoyancy would clear most of the occasional "big" water over the stern through the cutout even when dead in the water, and the scuppers would handle the rest. Hypotheticals are tricky. It would be fun, or at least instructive to try many in practice. But also very expensive. --Vic I swamped an old 14 foot run-about with a 40 horse Johnson on a flat, calm fresh water pond. Of course, I was young and an idiot. I was trying to see how big of a confused wake I could make by going around in really tight circles, at a speed that produced the biggest wake. Everything was fine, then all of a sudden the boat was almost up to the gunnels with water. Engine kept chugging away though, and I beached it to bail it out. The trip to shore was scary. Boats don't handle very well when they are full of water and I fully expected it to turn into a submarine at any moment. Eisboch I did the same thing, only a 12 footer and 18 horse Evinrude Fastwin. |
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