Fly'n Family
Active Member
- Sep 19, 2013
- 812
- Boat Info
- 2008 Meridian 341
2004 Boston Whaler Sport 130 w/40 hp Merc
- Engines
- 6.2's
Actually was a pretty serious situation. Some dock folks, an older couple, came into their slip about 10 pm tonight - the lady running down the dock yelling "help, our boat is sinking".
Happened to be on the bridge of our boat, and grabbed a bucket and headed their way with a dock buddy not far behind. Got there and they were in serious trouble. Boat had water across the entire stern and up about two inches on their motors, and filling fast. Buddy and I started bailing with 5 gallon buckets as fast as we could, and told them to get BoatUS on the horn as quickly as possible. The Boat US guys were home in bed, yet still got their in about 25 minutes thank goodness as we were losing the battle. They hooked up a couple of hard core pumps, and the tide fortunately turned quickly.
As they were pumping, my buddy was shining a flashlight trying to find the leak - when I saw the light clearly from the outside through a thru hull fitting. Apparently whatever was attached (no clue what it was) gave, and the thru hull lived up to it's name with water pouring in.
Long story short, they got water pumped out to where the fitting was above the waterline - and then stuck essentially a big cork in it.
So moral of the story - if you have thru hulls down low, have one of these cork kits onboard, and, sign up for BoatUS as they literally saved the day.
Happened to be on the bridge of our boat, and grabbed a bucket and headed their way with a dock buddy not far behind. Got there and they were in serious trouble. Boat had water across the entire stern and up about two inches on their motors, and filling fast. Buddy and I started bailing with 5 gallon buckets as fast as we could, and told them to get BoatUS on the horn as quickly as possible. The Boat US guys were home in bed, yet still got their in about 25 minutes thank goodness as we were losing the battle. They hooked up a couple of hard core pumps, and the tide fortunately turned quickly.
As they were pumping, my buddy was shining a flashlight trying to find the leak - when I saw the light clearly from the outside through a thru hull fitting. Apparently whatever was attached (no clue what it was) gave, and the thru hull lived up to it's name with water pouring in.
Long story short, they got water pumped out to where the fitting was above the waterline - and then stuck essentially a big cork in it.
So moral of the story - if you have thru hulls down low, have one of these cork kits onboard, and, sign up for BoatUS as they literally saved the day.