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Old 12-01-2018, 09:17 AM   #224
Delfin
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Originally Posted by psneeld View Post
Many of the salvaged boats I have raised had gasketed deck plates in splashwell.

But they were not doing their job for a variety of reasons resulting in progressive flooding and sinking.
This mystery s/b pretty easy to solve. Looks like the transom needs to sink only a few inches before those plates are underwater, so calculating how much water would need to slop over the transom and leak into the sponson to submerge the stern enough to put them underwater isn't going to be a difficult calculation.
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