[alberg30] Cockpit drains and Cape Horn steering

[George Dinwiddie]

Beware of using rigid pipe.  Things on a boat need to flex.  The
rigid pipes will eventually break and could sink the boat.  I've
known it to happen.

 - George

Peter Amos wrote:
> 
> Lee,sounds like a good solution,but not for me.I have wheel steering  where
> you have fitted your hatch. I can reach them at a stretch over the top of
> the Westerbeke but there is the danger of damage to the injector pipes etc.I
> think I will go ahead with re-siting the thru hulls in the lockers and put
> some sort of protection over them against damage from locker junk.A friend
> from Titusville (owns a Pearson) is staying with me at present. His solution
> to additional drainage is to run two heavy duty rigid plastic pipes from the
> the bottom of the vertical stern bulkhead in the cockpit through the stern
> locker and out through the transom above the waterline.This does not drain
> the cockpit completely but does remove the bulk of the water very quickly
> and that is what I am interested in.His boat is in the same yard as Tait
> Tait so I shall look at this option in November.I may want to fit a Cape
> Horn wind vane at some time so I shall have to make sure this solution would
> not interfere with it.Do second hand Cape Horns come on the market, what
> sort of price are they,and is there a web site for used sailboat equipment?
> Peter Amos
> TaitTait #478
> 
> 

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