Boats-A-lots
Petty Officer 1st Class
- Joined
- Jul 22, 2012
- Messages
- 366
Only one thing I can think of has been as scary in my life other then what happened to me this past week end crabbing. I took my son and his girlfriend out crabbing, and as always I started my boat at the dock and inspect the engine compartment. All looked fine. We get out in the bay, and I noticed water coming up from the cuddy cabin floor drain hole. I lifted the engine cowl and it was full of water and just starting to over flow into the boat. I turned my back up pump on and headed for the shallow water, and followed it to the dock.
On my OMC, SeaSwirl there is a hose coming from the outdrive that looks like it connects to a check valve or something like that. Going to look it up in a min. Anyway, it's a 3/4 inch hose, with 1.. just one little hose clamp holding it on. It had slipped off some how and was filling the boat with water.. fast.. very fast.
I ordered a high water alarm and will not ever go boating again on my boat, or anyone else that doesn't have one on. When you think about it.. it just make sense to have one on your boat. (Other then just an auto pump).
On my OMC, SeaSwirl there is a hose coming from the outdrive that looks like it connects to a check valve or something like that. Going to look it up in a min. Anyway, it's a 3/4 inch hose, with 1.. just one little hose clamp holding it on. It had slipped off some how and was filling the boat with water.. fast.. very fast.
I ordered a high water alarm and will not ever go boating again on my boat, or anyone else that doesn't have one on. When you think about it.. it just make sense to have one on your boat. (Other then just an auto pump).