[Public-List] Deck Drains on Liner Boat

[John Riley]

George Mathis wrote:
> unless you are planning to go seriously offshore.

There's the rub, isn't it?  We are doing just that.

Shedding water is a MAJOR consideration, and getting water out of the
cockpit as quickly as possible is one of those things that can only
help.  Belt n Suspenders, overbuild everything, etc, etc.

> If you get one of those cheap high-pressure attachments for a garden hose and remove the grill thing from the deck drain and shoot the water stream down the hose, that will remove any debris I can imagine you'd possibly accumulate.
>
>   

Showing some ignorance here as I have never tried the attachment you
describe, but...will it work to clear barnacles and a good, healthy dose
of slime/algae growth?  With all the bends and turns and the misaligned
T in the chain, nothing I did from the top of the system worked.  At
all.  Hose pressure (ordinary hose pressure) was so diminished by the
time it got to the through hulls that the water did not punch out the gook.

We had that exact problem last year before Earl hit.  A week or so
before Earl, the cockpit drains had stopped draining.  The DAY before
Earl,  I cleaned one of them the way I described and snagged a diver
cleaning the prop of a nearby boat and got him to clear the other (and
my sink drain, though that one was not critical in that circumstance).

But, if the attachment works and is good to have, I'm game.  :)

-- 
John S. Riley
S/V Gaelic Sea
1972 Alberg 30 #521


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