Re: Scupper's
Fellowship,
Hey. I just made a temporary Vortex - works GREAT! I was wondering, did you ever think of, or rather, what do you think of, making a fiberglass mold of an actual garboard tube / scupper and using that instead of PVC ?
The reasoning is to maximize diameter of outflow, whereas the PVC makes that ridiculously small, 1" scupper drain even smaller.
I use my boat mostly in a shallow, fairly protected Bay - the SC eats the nasty short chop up. But, if I were to do much deeper ocean fishing, where storms and swell can get nasty, or a really tough inlet, I think the 1" scuppers are really "underkill" and a short-sight in design. If a wave entered the boat, it would take a hell of along time for it to exit !
Hopefully, one day I'll figure out a way, unless someone has done it already, to make a larger diameter, through-floor scupper that does not allow water back in, without having to raise a perfectly good floor.
Until then, G-D bless the Vortex, because there is nothing better than it short of using drain plugs.
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