Seamanship 2.0 by Mike Westin

Author:Mike Westin
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781472977038
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2021-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Trying to put out a fire in cooking oil on the stove with water will cause a veritable explosion!

The best wooden bungs are wedge shaped and of a soft wood (pine). The hard wood bungs in the chandlery will probably not be as effective. There are also alternative commercial bungs that can be useful. Have a selection for all eventualities.

Holed & sinking

Most of us probably have some wooden bungs on board, but few of us have the right-sized bung next to all through hulls. In the worst case, the small bag of bungs are located somewhere in the bottom of the cockpit locker where you possibly saw them sometime last summer…

A hole in the hull the size of your palm, 30cm (1 foot), under the waterline will let nearly 1,400 litres (370 US gallons) of water per minute enter the boat. Not many 12/24V pumps will be able to empty that much water. However, a separate – petrol or diesel – driven pump will handle a huge amount of water, and many rescue boats and Coastguard boats will carry one (or more) of these.

That said the 12V bilge pump on board will buy some time for the crew to come up with a solution to fix the hull breach.

If you can’t find the breach immediately and you are close to land you can ground the boat (preferably on a soft bottom) to keep the boat from sinking. In another real-life example, someone used a stick of butter and pressed it into the breach in order to buy time.

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