Ben Dockrell 22
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Unless "my lockers" are on the outside of my boat you did not read my post properly!
Irrational fear of sinking?
- Thread starter Rivers & creeks
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Seajet
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My 22' boat has a 30 Watt solar panel & 100 amp / hour battery; it manages to power the radar for short bursts ( as intended ) the autopilot, lights etc.
There is also a battery monitor which I keep an eye on.
Electric motors are notorious for power demands, but I think a well set up electric bilge pump would be like an 'additional crew member', hopefully giving one the chance to get into port or even just beach the boat !
It's not unusual to see boats on moorings etc suddenly emit a whirring noise and discharge a small amount of bilge water...
Kukri
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As an unreconstructed, not to say Paleolithic, old style messer about in old style wooden boats, I won't have an electric bilge pump on board. Nor will I have a zinc anode, and the old girl has no discernible galvanic or electrolytic corrosion.
The bilge sump usually has about a pint in it from the stern tube seal and we dust the rest of the bilges....
I think there is, scuse the pun, a connection here...or rather, there isn't one.
The bilge sump usually has about a pint in it from the stern tube seal and we dust the rest of the bilges....
I think there is, scuse the pun, a connection here...or rather, there isn't one.
Supine Being
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I worry about getting that. I check myself for symptoms at 15 minutes past the hour every hour from 6.15 through to 00.15 and often in between just in case I missed something. No signs yet, but I am ever vigilant.
Ben Dockrell 22
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At the end of our days we all tend to sink about six feet 
Ceejay
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If you have OCD, chances are it would show up in other areas of your daily life. For example, do you switch sockets off obsessively at home, do you double check and then check again and again that a door is locked, or a padlock secure? Do you check obsessively that nuts and bolts on engines etc are tight. I know someone who constantly "nips" bell housing and starter bolts up, with the result that they eventually shear.
To comment briefly on the original question, if it was my destiny, I would prefer for the boat to sink when I was not aboard, rather than when I was.
CJ
To comment briefly on the original question, if it was my destiny, I would prefer for the boat to sink when I was not aboard, rather than when I was.
CJ
Rivers & creeks
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Looked at my phone yesterday whilst away on a course - 3 missed phone calls, a voice mail and a text message from the marina - the text message said "we urgently need your boat keys". My instant stress levels went through the roof, rang back PDQ - "what's happened" I squeal down the phone - "we need your keys so we can measure for the new windlass base" 
You've got spare keys says me, "yeah I know, we just found them."
You've got spare keys says me, "yeah I know, we just found them."
Zen Zero
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I left left the heads seacock open when we left the boat yesterday. Its a 3hr train ride away ... what to do?
prv
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Does the heads ever siphon?
My heads seacocks are a bugger to get to - stupid modification by a previous owner puts them underneath the battery boxes. So I leave them open all season (apart from the occasional tweak to stop them seizing up) and never worry about it. But I have anti-siphon valves on inlet and outlet and know that they work.
Pete
Zen Zero
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No never had a problem with them, we leave them open for weeks when cruising, and they've been left open at mooring too without incident. However, this could be the first time! :-D
lw395
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My loo seacocks have been open all winter with the boat in the water and I've lost no sleep over it. I did replace them last week though
How many boats do you know that have sunk whilst sitting in a marina. Pheonix of Hamble had a close call but that's the only one I've heard of. Relax.
We've seen a few wooden keelboats sink. Mostly on moorings. A few boats seem to sink in Langstone and Portsmouth Harbour every year, quite often fishing boats on moorings.
ffiill
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Heads seacocks-the only ones I am fastidious about-why-because origionally the boat did not have an antisyphon valve and despite the fact that it had managed for 25 years without one several years ago it syphoned whilst I was aboard;drained through the shower tray into the shower sump which began pumping the water over the side.Of course had this happened in my absence sooner or later the batteries would have flatened and the boat filled with water!