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A good reason to drink
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True. A mason jar lid would be a tough fit!
Hmmm- Isn't it likely those "quick-thinking boaters" left the plug out in the 1st place? ( It happens.)
But kudos to them for addressing the issue & finding a functional stop-leak, as there are probably a lot of "slower-thinking boaters" who might have scratched their heads until the boat sank around them while they thought about who they might be able to sue afterward.
But kudos to them for addressing the issue & finding a functional stop-leak, as there are probably a lot of "slower-thinking boaters" who might have scratched their heads until the boat sank around them while they thought about who they might be able to sue afterward.
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Beats me. Whenever I got into the hooch, I never saw the cap a second time.
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Pro-tip: a meticulously prepared boater would have appropriately sized softwood plugs on lanyards attached to each through hull. A more laid back but still well prepared boater would have a miniature Nerf football onboard. They work really, REALLY well for damage control. Work well enough I couldn't think of a better design for a one size fits all [th] damage control plug than a Nerf ball.
Same idea, I keep the conical foam Forespar TryPlug handy onboard, along with cuttable sections of a compressible swimming noodle and wooden plug set.
http://truplug.net/home_index.html
But necessity is the mother of invention.
I was onboard when a friend's diesel propshaft was ripped completely right out of the boat by a particularly hungry huge boulder at Gay Head's Inside Passage he misjudged by "just e..nough".
We went from firehose inflow sinking condition to 100% under control in less than a minute when he appropriately ripped off his "Hard Rock Café" T-shirt, jumped into the bilge and stuffed it in the empty stuffing box, as I already had the anchor deployed and the 3rd crew member had hailed his former mates at the local USCG station.
It may have been close to a record time for a situational turnaround ...in the better direction.
http://truplug.net/home_index.html
But necessity is the mother of invention.
I was onboard when a friend's diesel propshaft was ripped completely right out of the boat by a particularly hungry huge boulder at Gay Head's Inside Passage he misjudged by "just e..nough".
We went from firehose inflow sinking condition to 100% under control in less than a minute when he appropriately ripped off his "Hard Rock Café" T-shirt, jumped into the bilge and stuffed it in the empty stuffing box, as I already had the anchor deployed and the 3rd crew member had hailed his former mates at the local USCG station.
It may have been close to a record time for a situational turnaround ...in the better direction.