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Darin Christensen
  • Magna, UT
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A drain fitting froze and cracked. Water siphons into the boat and......
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just the kind of stuff that makes this site interesting, thank you
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At 4:12pm on December 5, 2008, Darin Christensen said…
The boat on the beach happened when the new owner of the boat brought it to GSL from Bear Lake. After launching, he wanted to take it out for the very first time right away, but there was bad weather approaching. When the weather arrived, the owner tried to motor in but the wind and the big waves coming ashore overpowered the outboard. The boat ended up on the beach. The transom mounted rudder was torn off and ended up several hundred yards further ashore. The boat was badly damaged as the keel was forced to one side and broke all the keel support stringers in the bottom of the boat. They dug around the keel for a while (and you can see that it is canted to one side) then they took off the keel bolts. You can hear someone pounding on them in the video. After the bolts were removed and the keel removed, the towed the boat to the marina and reloaded in onto the trailer. They pulled the keel off the beach the next day with a 4 wheeler.

The boat that sank had a fairly common problem. Although the lake seldom freezes except for fresh water on the surface, fresh water in the cockpit drains does freeze. Then one of two things can happen. Either the cockpit will fill and overflow the companionway or just lower the boat enough to allow lake water to rise through the sink drain and the boat fills with water and sinks. (in fact, failure to shovel snow off the deck all winter can cause this, too.) The other thing is that the frozen cockpit drain can break if it is made of something rigid enough. That's what happened to this boat. The two cockpit drains joined to a T made of hard plastic. It froze and broke, and lake water filled the boat overnight, and it sank. You may have noticed that the fellow on the boat (not the owner) was wearing a survival dry suit. The water temp was at or below freezing for fresh water.
At 2:28pm on December 5, 2008, Poupon deGrass said…
Very interesting videos re sunk boat and beached boat. Can you elaborate on the background of these shots. Thanks
At 5:26pm on December 1, 2008, Charles Uibel said…
These are great great great Darin. I've made you admin so do what you think is right
 
 

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