Thanks for the input guys I was just curious as I currently have no strainers at all. I will go with the bronze.
Matt On May 31, 9:20 am, tomdepot <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
