I have bronze sea strainers. I assume the presumptive logic is that your cooling water lines are the biggest raw water lines into the boat. Considering that plastic sea strainers are more likely to break due to freeze/vibration/age/etc than bronze ones, that's about the fastest way you could sink your boat at the slip when you are not around, or even when you are on it. My intakes are 2" each, and so it would take (based on hose size) a minimum of a 4000 GPH bilge pump to keep up with the water coming in from each broken sea strainer. Needless to say, even if the pumps could keep up with the incoming water, it wouldn't be long before they depleted the batteries, and then your boat would sink anyways.
David Pascoe says that the vast majority of boats that sink do so in their slips. Check out his stuff, you will never even think about plastic through hulls either once you read some of his articles. http://www.yachtsurvey.com/ Tom in Florida --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "UnifliteWorld" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/UnifliteWorld?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
