Da plug--inny or outy

Bill
I think that you have a different kind of plug than has been talked about. Yours will only work from the outside. I am thinking about drilling out my "Thermos plug hole" and installing a brass plug like what you have. I think they work better. I didn't know Cdory was now installing the brass plugs. From all the talk on this thread it never came up.
Jimbo
 
Anyone who still thinks that putting the plug in from the outside is a good idea should read, in the Spring, 2006 issue of NAVIGATOR, the national publication of the CG Auxiliary, the account of a boating accident in which a 24' CC university research vessel filled with water and capsized in Albemarle Sound on Dec. 2, 2005.
The chain of events apparently began with the entangment of a marker buoy line with the "T" of the plug (the type touted in previous posts), and subsequent removal of said plug. As stated here, it is well to have spare plugs available, but the skipper's account shows that things can go south so fast that it may be impossible to carry out such a remedy or even understand what has happened.
Fortunately, there was time for a 911 call, and all hands were rescued by a CG helo from Air Station Elizabeth City.
 
Oh gosh!!! Another controversial subject into which to wade!!!! But , wait.... Ohhhh Nooooo........ The new TomCats don't have hull drain plugs!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I just hope you guys will all take a moment to contemplate how lucky you are to have drain plugs about which to argue!!! ...I mean "discuss".

As for me,,,,, I'll just have to hope that someday my TomCat will sprout a drain hole for me to have to decide how to plug... sniff....

John
 
A recent discussion surfaced about boat plugs and since I remembered this previous "at length" discussion, I ran through our site "search" and found this thread. Hope it helps.
 
that was a lot of reading for a bad joke dave. I have always inserted the plug from the out side. have never lost one but have forgotten to put one in a time or two. I like the t-type. the flip type are never tight enough. heres a good hint. if you forget yours or it falls out just keep the boat on plane until you can figure some thing out. all the water will run out. I had to drop off a father inlaw to get the truck and trailer after launching and him forgetting the plug. I just ran fast circles until he got the trailer ready. a lot easier then trying to put your thumb in the hole or finding some thing that will fit. Got to be smarter then the problem. Oh and its single with a kicker, one mulitfuntion screen w radar and pro-release clips on electric downriggers so there. :smilep
 
I think the obvious answer is twins. :twisted:
Not side by side like the motors but one from inside and one from outside. :wink:
Merv
 
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The Old Standby!


I got one of the rubber dealies with my boat, but have never had the guts to use it!

It's supposed to automatically drain the boat at speed when the water pressure from the inside forces the flat flapper V-tubed part open, then closes back down when you slow down.

Here's the address if anyone wants to investigate further:

Automatic Drain Plug



Joe. :teeth :thup
 
Dusty,

Just to be sure there is no misunderstanding I meant to put the plugs in the boat.

Must also note that my "twins" are one each side (both motors and scupper drains) What would you expect from a Gemini?

I agree with Barry, who needs plugs? My drain plug is normally 2 feet under water and the ones at the transom are large, bronze(like) screw-in objects which I open for washdown or to get rid of rain water or fish guts.

Now, about having two VHF's.........?

Merv :lol:
 
Da Nag":14hl1876 said:
On the outside, with a spare inside.

This is the only correct way, and has been proven through carefully controlled, peer reviewed scientific studies. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Oh - and the answer to the other raging debate - a single plus kicker.

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Folks - chance of plug falling out is remote - if plug is in the inside and then removed, it does allow water to be sucked out while on plane. What if the plug falls out or isn't put in? Will it sink the CD 22? Don't believe it will. What experience shows. Back in 1996 while launching my CD, my buddy and I had a miscomunnication. We both thought the other had put in the plug. After backing off the trailer, we tied the boat to the dock and drove the pickup and trailer to the parking area. We poke around for quite a while (no one using the ramp), probably 15 minutes, and leisurely went to the boat. A fellow was standing on the dock looking at the boat, and said to us as we walked up, "Do you have a hole in your boat?" We then discovered the cockpit sole was under water but below the door sill. It wasn't taking on any more water. Reason? The balsa core in the sole and transom and the gas tanks being lighter than water created bouyancy to create enough flotation to restrict the depth of water in the cockpit. Of course we were embarrassed, but the plug was put in (from the inside of course), and the bilge pump took care of the water in short order. So don't panic in the remote event your plug falls out while underway (or at the dock). John
 
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