aeviaanah
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Curious if youve ever sunk your boat. Howd it happen? Whatd you end up doing?
Oh man, what a story. Glad everything worked out. The boat never actually sank tho huh? Turned the bilge pump on in time and were able to keep the water from pouring in? Crazy!bulldog said:I came very close one time. I beached just up river from this large tree going over the river. I barely made it under it coming up river. Me and 2 of my buddies were fishing the rapids and weren't having any luck so we decided to go to a new spot. Pushed off and I could not get the boat started and we drifted right under the tree. The motor stuck under the tree and kicked the boat sideways in about 3' of water that was really moving. The upstream side of the boat went under water and water just poured in so fast. I grabbed my buddy that was standing on the upstream side of the boat and threw him to the down stream side in order to lift the edge out of the water. He almost went in and was pissed but he was just frozen and not doing anything to help the cause. He's one of those, not my boat not my problem type of people. I have a 500 GPH bilge and it pumped for 45 minutes before the boat was empty of water.
Lesson learned here - beach the boat far enough up stream from rapids so if something goes wrong you have time to prepare for something or beach the boat below the rapids and walk up stream to fish.
Ouch glad to hear everyone is OK! Those kayak guys are nuts!Jdholmes said:Wow. I would never fish the rapids. I do have experience sinking a kayak in them.
My dad and I were boating when I was younger with a group and had stopped to help some folks who had flipped their canoe with kids in it. So, we propped against a rock right before the rapids and caught kids and gear coming our way.
Once all was settled we went to push away from the rock and the current caught the kayak in a weird way and sucked it down. As soon as it started filling it the thing sunk like a rock and trapped my dads leg between the rocks. He was screaming in pain and it took about five guys nearby to lift the weight of the thing filled with water.
aeviaanah said:Oh man, what a story. Glad everything worked out. The boat never actually sank tho huh? Turned the bilge pump on in time and were able to keep the water from pouring in? Crazy!
It never sank. Basically had a lot of water in it which caused it to sit low enough in the water to free it from the tree. We then imediately beached it and let the bilge pump do the work. I think I remember hand bailing also. There was a lot of water.
it was my old 12 footer bare bones. no bilge,just a battery, motor,gas and my fat *** all in the stern. it was the deciding factor in me buying a 2010 14.5 ft. g3 v bottom.no way a bilge could have helped. it came flooding over the stern.aeviaanah said:Man lucky you, **** wake boarders. Did his wave crash against the stern allowing the water to come in? I'm curious, did you have a bilge pump? Would it have helped?
Or flotation?
Was it a flat bottom?bcbouy said:it was my old 12 footer bare bones. no bilge,just a battery, motor,gas and my fat *** all in the stern. it was the deciding factor in me buying a 2010 14.5 ft. g3 v bottom.no way a bilge could have helped. it came flooding over the stern.aeviaanah said:Man lucky you, **** wake boarders. Did his wave crash against the stern allowing the water to come in? I'm curious, did you have a bilge pump? Would it have helped?
Or flotation?
Crazy....did it have flotation built in? Im trying to figure out if I can get away without flotation....curious of the risks. I dont have much room in my 12' boat.bulldog said:aeviaanah said:Oh man, what a story. Glad everything worked out. The boat never actually sank tho huh? Turned the bilge pump on in time and were able to keep the water from pouring in? Crazy!
It never sank. Basically had a lot of water in it which caused it to sit low enough in the water to free it from the tree. We then imediately beached it and let the bilge pump do the work. I think I remember hand bailing also. There was a lot of water.
Your exactly right, risk analysis.. Ya know I want what I want but the foam is still in the back of my mind. I havent locked anything down yet. The decision needs to be made!FuzzyGrub said:I assume you don't want to know about drain plug sinkings or deliberate capsizing.
In that case, I have had only close calls. Those have all been on river drift trips where the hull hung on rock and the current almost flipped the boat. Never underestimate the power of shallow water current. All cases the depth was less than 4".
I have been hit by large wakes that have almost thrown me in, but didn't swamp the boat. Those pedelstal seat can do more than rest your butt. A surprise wave at the transom has exercised the bilge pump a time or two.
PS: Are you doing risk analysis for your floatation foam question?
rickybobbybend said:I've never been close to swamping, but it is a "what
if" that is always in the back of my mind. I am about three quarters of the way through modding a 12 footer to make it more fishable, but two absolutes were minimum added weight and retaining all factory flotation. I am very happy withe results...flotation is a must in my book...
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