sometimes it dont pay to poke about ..davy jones was smileing at me

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well to day i got the fright of my life . i was working on mates boat , went below could here water tricling some where so poked around could fined nothing .. then bilge pump cut in so ilooked and decided it was comeing from under floor in toilet.so got floor up and found small leak .got some you bute fix it stuff ??? put it down crack 'womba ' BOTTOM LET GO . just a hole as big as my forearm which i promly jamed in hole ... dum as i was stuck . luck would have it i had phone in shirt pocket call son 1hr away . then call lift guy . alls well and all fixed hole gladly did not all go as it was 1ft x2ft to fix.if it had gone so would have i moral of this story check and double check, your pride and joy dave
 
hi guys its my mates boat its steel evern out of water you could not detect any rust or rot . only opened up when we started to grind off to weld plate in . if by chance i had moved or been able to put my other hand in to steady my self i would have gone down as it was that thin fag papper thin so the gods were smileing on me for sure dave
 
hi yes i have just sailed this boat up the coast. about 200 ks . in15 to 25 kns . why it stayed in one piece is a mystery as it was pretty bumpy . just was not ment to sink i suppose .shes all well now . dave
 
I heard a story about a bloke who bought a steel boat without a survey. A few months later he was doing domething and dropped a spanner.


Which went straight through the hull /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

His comment was "The sea seemed awfully keen to come and join me" Gulp!
 
this one had a full suv and new rig i evern went over the bottom with hammer myself while up on slips found nothing amiss but it was surely there all the same, just one of those things , but its got a charmed life by seems of it . as all is fine /// I HOPE AS I HAVE TO RETURN IT SHORTLY DAVE
 
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