snooks
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Your post is on page 1 of my system
Anyway, you'll be glad to know we already have a Forespar TruPlug in the office that we'll be testing
How would you block a broken seacock or sterngland?
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Your post is on page 1 of my system
Anyway, you'll be glad to know we already have a Forespar TruPlug in the office that we'll be testing
fergie_mac66
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Our risk and insurance manager here at IPC might have a heart attack!He's still dealing with the claim from may accident last year.
Finding something we can hit again and again (and finding something someone will let us hit again and again) making the whole process repeatable, while not getting ourselves or our equipment trapped in a sinking boat in the process would be impossible for us to achieve.
The plan at the moment, as I understand it, is for the boat to be lifted out, set down, and Mr forklift then drives at the boat, hoping to hit the spot we want them to hit.
Boat then gets lowered into the water, and the slings slackened. As she sinks she'll eventually be caught be the slings and nobody or their equipment will go down with this ship
But that's all in the future, back to seacocks failing
so nobodys bottle enough to do a Clarkson,May and Hammond style accident 30 /40 Mph into brick wall !
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prv
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What they wish to convey is plugging a hole. The forklift is merely a convenient way of making the hole. I agree that there might be even more realistic (but harder to achieve) ways of doing that, but there's nothing actually wrong with the forklift approach.
Where do you get the impression that the forklift is the point of the article? It's an implementation detail, that's all.
Pete
prv
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Not sure that's true in my boat. More or less all of the interior below waist height is a single fibreglass liner. Some parts are accessible as lockers, but quite a lot isn't. If I had a crack in the hull behind there, I'd have water gushing out from all the edges of the liner, no idea where the hole actually was, and no very easy way of getting at it to fix.
It would be interesting to see what a hole behind a liner looks like. Presumably the Crash Test Boat doesn't have a full internal liner like my little boat, but maybe the heads...
Pete
Salty John
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Snooks, you guys have all the fun! This whole 'buy a boat and wreck it' project is a great idea and it's going to provide a wealth of entertaining articles and some properly valuable insights for your readers. Well done you lot!
RichardS
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Seems a bit desperate - why not just open the hatches and let it out?
Having said that, when my youngest son drops a corker we all feel tempted to abandon ship!
We were sailing towards The Pitons a few years ago and we all turned to same son at the same moment with "Jeeez - that's disgusting!" It turned out to the stink from the volcano!
Richard
snooks
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Seems a bit desperate - why not just open the hatches and let it out?
Having said that, when my youngest son drops a corker we all feel tempted to abandon ship!
We were sailing towards The Pitons a few years ago and we all turned to same son at the same moment with "Jeeez - that's disgusting!" It turned out to the stink from the volcano!
Richard
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westernman
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There are a whole load of AWBs clogging up our marinas down here which makes it very difficult to get a parking space. Can you come down here and set up some kind of test where you can see how many boats you can wreck in one go?
You can start by seeing what happens when you park a 300ft gin palace into a space for a 30ft boat.
I am sure collectively we can come up with a whole load of exiting scenarios which will help you sell enormous numbers of your magazine and cure our space problem at the same time
Baggywrinkle
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Cut the straps off one of the spare manual inflation life jackets, stuff half of it through the hole and pull the inflate toggle.
(Assuming the hole was made by the prong of a fork-lift truck
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(Assuming the hole was made by the prong of a fork-lift truck
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snooks
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Cut the straps off one of the spare manual inflation life jackets, stuff half of it through the hole and pull the inflate toggle.
(Assuming the hole was made by the prong of a fork-lift truck
Erm, that what I sad ^^^^^ up there in post #55
And we're supposed to be talking about blooming sea cocks!!!
Could you at least try to keep up at the back??
Baggywrinkle
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Erm, that what I sad ^^^^^ up there in post #55
And we're supposed to be talking about blooming sea cocks!!!
Could you at least try to keep up at the back??
Sorry, dozed off around post #40-something ... will try harder in future