Self bailers - which one?

[ggray]

Originally Posted by Dave_S

<snip>I enjoy making my life hard.<snip>

So do I! I enjoy challenges, but mainly on my boat, so best of luck!

I assume the objective of the designer was to conceal the outboards from view. PDQ did a good job of this, but with mounts in the bridgedeck so no hole through the bottom.

We had a cat with an outboard mounted in the middle of the bridgedeck, and always accepted it for the advantage of being able to raise the prop and all out of the water. Besides, mounted there it's not stuck out there visible like a sore thumb on a monohull (had one of those, too).

But you have what's there, so maybe you can come up with something that works. Getting the water out would be nice, but not your biggest difficulty or need, I'd think.

[Dave_S]

It turns out the self bailers won't work unfortunately.

At 150mm below waterline they need 5-6kn to draw. At 350mm below the waterline they just won't work at the speeds I'd like.