IP 35 Rescued 12/16 Fort Myers

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9 years 5 months ago #5364 by Sailup
IP 35 Rescued 12/16 Fort Myers was created by Sailup
www.winknews.com/2016/12/16/3-people-res...t-off-sanibel-coast/

Does anyone know the story of why she took on water?

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9 years 5 months ago #5365 by hayden
Replied by hayden on topic IP 35 Rescued 12/16 Fort Myers
Todd:
I saw that when it happened and I could never find out any more information.

One item this alerts me to is, that we all need to get into our sail lockers or cut an access panel in the stern and LOOK AT our cockpit drains. These will almost always have cuts and tears in the bottom bends where they bend from vertical to horizontal to the stern. This bottom of the hose cant be easily seen. Then when motoring offshore these cockpit hoses are under water and they leak water back into the bilge. Bottom line, we all need to replace the cockpit drain hoses from original as they most likely will have an issues after many years. To test your own, just run water into the cockpit and then get into the sail locker and look at the the cockpit hoses to see if they are leaking.

I hope we can find out what happened here with this IP.

Thank you for asking and sharing the link.

Hayden

Hayden Cochran
IP35-165 Island Spirit
IslandSpirit35.blogspot.com
Rock Hall, MD

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9 years 5 months ago #5375 by Jud
Replied by Jud on topic IP 35 Rescued 12/16 Fort Myers
We just replaced these hoses(along with many others) in our IP31 after 30 years of service. They were scary; the original hose (1 1/2 I believe) was a hard wall rubber hose, and cracked all over. I wished I had taken pictures of them. I ended up replacing them with sanitation hose, which seems to be sufficient; just had to use a heat gun to soften up the hose enough to attach to the plumbing fittings.

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