Hi All, I was hoping to get some thoughts on my idea for draining my
cockpit.
Current situation: one 3/4" drain at bottom center aft
cockpit connected via about 5 ft of hose to thru-hull in bottom of the
boat. This hosing has sink drain T-ing into it at the
thru hull.
I read Gord May's post from a while back. I estimate my
current setup could drain 75% of my cockpit in roughly 9 hours.
Plan:
1.Delete thru-hull altogether (on a 23 ft
boat I don't really drain much in the sink beside brushing my teeth and occasional cup of
water.
2. Add three transom scuppers at aft cockpit. Directly through the cockpit transome - so no drain tubing. Thinking two at just above the waterline, then another maybe halfway up the transom. Thinking putting some sort of flaps or one-way valves on these. Have to calculate size, but thinking something like each hole would be somewhere around 2-3" in size. Certainly that would drain infinitely faster than current setup.
I'm not going for a
blue water boat, but I do plan to solo
cruise in the NW and (secretly) have aspirations of doing the R2AK at some point in the future (don't tell my wife).
Questions:
1. Does this general idea seem reasonable?
2. Are there off-the-shelf valve or flap products made for this purpose?
3. Would you put the scuppers right at the waterline? 1-2" above it?
4. Any other thoughts or considerations to think about before drilling through my beautiful transom?
Thanks for all your thoughts
-Peter