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<blockquote data-quote="gillhunter" data-source="post: 286201" data-attributes="member: 5151"><p>This has been a very interesting thread. It's been my experience that bad things can happen real fast in the water. You don't' need a bilge pump or floatation foam or a PFD for that matter until you need it. My son-in-law and I were hit in my 16' deep v back in "05 in a sudden rain storm by a much larger boat that came around a point at WOT about 50' from shore. We were both ejected and rescued by people on shore. The boat looked like it was hit by a train, but still floated. It had all the factory foam in it. The other boat stopped but the folks made no attempt to help us. It was nice to know that we would have had something to crawl back into had it happened in the middle of the lake. My son-in-law was able to fire up the bilge pump and the motor and drive it to the landing and get it back on the trailer. The only thing we are able to salvage from the boat was the 50hp Johnson. </p><p></p><p>My current tin has all the factory foam and a bilge pump.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gillhunter, post: 286201, member: 5151"] This has been a very interesting thread. It's been my experience that bad things can happen real fast in the water. You don't' need a bilge pump or floatation foam or a PFD for that matter until you need it. My son-in-law and I were hit in my 16' deep v back in "05 in a sudden rain storm by a much larger boat that came around a point at WOT about 50' from shore. We were both ejected and rescued by people on shore. The boat looked like it was hit by a train, but still floated. It had all the factory foam in it. The other boat stopped but the folks made no attempt to help us. It was nice to know that we would have had something to crawl back into had it happened in the middle of the lake. My son-in-law was able to fire up the bilge pump and the motor and drive it to the landing and get it back on the trailer. The only thing we are able to salvage from the boat was the 50hp Johnson. My current tin has all the factory foam and a bilge pump. [/QUOTE]
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