RobnBern
Member
Hello Everyone,
while at the dock working on the boat, my buddy, with WAY more boating experience than me, suggested closing the sea cocks when I leave the marina. He rationale is simple, if ya' blow a hose and the sea cock is open, the boat will swallow all the water on the east coast!! I really hadn't put too much thought into it until a boat at a neighboring marina began to list over to port and suddenly capsized. The owner was out of town on business.
Our boat is about 40 miles from our house, so there's no quick way to get there in the event of emergency. I was thinking that IF I closed the main cocks, I'd hang signs on the ignition switches "SEA COCK CLOSED".
Thoughts?? Experience?? It's been a wild 2 weeks on the Occoquan....1 boat fire, 1 boat sinking and 1 drowning...WOW
Be safe....
while at the dock working on the boat, my buddy, with WAY more boating experience than me, suggested closing the sea cocks when I leave the marina. He rationale is simple, if ya' blow a hose and the sea cock is open, the boat will swallow all the water on the east coast!! I really hadn't put too much thought into it until a boat at a neighboring marina began to list over to port and suddenly capsized. The owner was out of town on business.
Our boat is about 40 miles from our house, so there's no quick way to get there in the event of emergency. I was thinking that IF I closed the main cocks, I'd hang signs on the ignition switches "SEA COCK CLOSED".
Thoughts?? Experience?? It's been a wild 2 weeks on the Occoquan....1 boat fire, 1 boat sinking and 1 drowning...WOW
Be safe....