Gargleblaster
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He made a very interesting point that Glayva had no means of pumping the bilges when buttoned up, so he had to modify the loo! I've since realised that my own Challenger is also bereft of this ability, with my one (and currently only) bilge pump worked from the cockpit.
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I am slowling catching up with what has been happening in Jester Challenge communications and came across a thread about Glayva's trip to Newport and back.
In the thread Jake Kavanagh makes the above point. However I have bad news sometimes you can have so much water in the cabin that even pumps can't keep up. My first knockdown on my second attempt at JC06 followed having just removed my top stormboard to have a look around. By the amount of damage and what was damaged I believe we probably went below the horizontal - it happened so fast and Glayva came back up so quickly all I could do was hang on. As the top stormboard was out during the knockdown I ended up with about two feet of water above the cabin sole. My first thought was should I take a photo for various newletters I contribute to and for a talk a club I belong to likes me to give each year. My electric automatic bilge pump was madly pumping away I started on the manual pump instead of taking a photo but could make no discernible difference to the water. Finally I took out all the stormboards and started bailing with a three gallon bucket. Probably the hardest thing was catching the water in the bucket as it sloshed from side to side. When I had the water to around the level of the cabin sole, I discarded the bucket in favour of the manual pump and closed up the stormboards. Had a cup of tea and then went about looking for what was damaged. The only immediate thing I could do was reset my windvane steering which had been knocked off course and repair a broken babystay.
One of my rules is that just before I close my stormboards I take the 3 gallon bucket that always resides in the cockpit into the cabin. While I have other buckets in my cockpit lockers, on this occassion I was very pleased to have the bucket so readily to hand.
He made a very interesting point that Glayva had no means of pumping the bilges when buttoned up, so he had to modify the loo! I've since realised that my own Challenger is also bereft of this ability, with my one (and currently only) bilge pump worked from the cockpit.
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I am slowling catching up with what has been happening in Jester Challenge communications and came across a thread about Glayva's trip to Newport and back.
In the thread Jake Kavanagh makes the above point. However I have bad news sometimes you can have so much water in the cabin that even pumps can't keep up. My first knockdown on my second attempt at JC06 followed having just removed my top stormboard to have a look around. By the amount of damage and what was damaged I believe we probably went below the horizontal - it happened so fast and Glayva came back up so quickly all I could do was hang on. As the top stormboard was out during the knockdown I ended up with about two feet of water above the cabin sole. My first thought was should I take a photo for various newletters I contribute to and for a talk a club I belong to likes me to give each year. My electric automatic bilge pump was madly pumping away I started on the manual pump instead of taking a photo but could make no discernible difference to the water. Finally I took out all the stormboards and started bailing with a three gallon bucket. Probably the hardest thing was catching the water in the bucket as it sloshed from side to side. When I had the water to around the level of the cabin sole, I discarded the bucket in favour of the manual pump and closed up the stormboards. Had a cup of tea and then went about looking for what was damaged. The only immediate thing I could do was reset my windvane steering which had been knocked off course and repair a broken babystay.
One of my rules is that just before I close my stormboards I take the 3 gallon bucket that always resides in the cockpit into the cabin. While I have other buckets in my cockpit lockers, on this occassion I was very pleased to have the bucket so readily to hand.