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Originally Posted by Dockhead
4 gallons of water weighs 32 pounds. Really think you could lift that, and fling it overboard, 20 times a minute? Or even more, keep that up for an hour?
The thing about the scared man and the bucket is humor - not intended to be taken seriously.
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This is not humour, it works well, but is tiring all the same, and in a seaway your going to get knocked about. Been there twice on a 1927 carvel timber (sail) 40ft'. sprung a plank, the
skipper owner did not even turn the
electric pump on as the first thing he did was turn off the
battery isolation switches after donning
head lamps, put us in the dark to save the
batteries as they were near under with the water level being one foot over the sole. I was a greenskin then to Ocean sailing 30 years ago,when seeing the damage my thoughts were to life jackets and pumping up the rubber duck.
I done most of the bucket bailing into the
cockpit by myself as the
skipper went searching for the leak.
2 hours later after baling and fixing the leak, putting 20 screws to the inside of the plank and tie wire to the opposite stringer with Spanish windlasses to tighten them and tea towel pumped in with a blunt
paint scraper for corking we were fully bloodied and bruised motoring to land as we were 50 miles off shore and still leaking but easily handled by the pump every fifteen min's.
Good idea to always carry Oakum, thats if you can find the leak.