Hmmm...I think this has convinced me to move as many electronics as possible as far up as possible in the boat.

Good recovery ! First thing I do before I put my boat back in the water is to remove my little paddle wheel thingy. I don't really care to know how fast I'm going in relation to the water. I'm more interested in my speed in relation to the Earth and a simple GPS does that just fine ! Mads has the right idea, to get rid of the useless through hulls. During the emergency having a map of all the through hulls on the boat would have been very handy. Thinking under pressure is difficult at best. Even a book with contingencies for all emergencies on hand is a good idea also.

That blank is for winterizing. Good idea on the 5200 , the devils glue. The paddle wheel wast most likely on only a few threads, that's why it popped out on you guys. Most of those wheels have a loop at the top so you can pass seizing wire and prevent it from unthreading, much like a shackle or turnbuckle. That's great you made it all way to g town.

I guess what can be gleaned from the near sinking or sickening panic... is to know where ALL factory holes are and be able to access them quickly and have bungs around in several locations. be aware in choppy conditions .... there can be structural damage as well ... I have heard of guys crashing into God knows what in high seas and not knowing until they can inspect the hull. it is good to run the motor as well the heat will help dry things out and get moisture out of the motor too..... Glad you are ok.... Thank you for sharing...

What I hate more about recovering from sinking is the panic that follows for a long time where you panic check the bilge because you believe you are sinking again even though everything is dry down there. Good luck on the repairs, you will get through it!

Retired Michiganders who just found your beautiful vlog. Glad you are OK! Safe travels! P.S...Its cloudy and about 55 degrees Fahrenheit in Northern Michigan at present. UGH!

Note sometimes you can rinse electronics with fresh water then dry them out totally and they come back .Do not test them otherwise . Both salt or running it wet will destroy it .

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How do you guys retain your sanity? Hats off to you both. Courage personified. New meaning to the saying 'when the going gets tough, the 'tough gets going".

You have each other you have your health and you have your boat still afloat What a wicked web we weave to keep our ships in the sleeve and not on the cuff Reef Runner out

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Definitely a near-miss with deep lessons. Zingaro suffered the same failure of the speed wheel blowing out but I don't know if they were beating through waves or not. Two tips... 1. you can place a piece of sail cloth, vinyl, or canvas against the exterior of the hull at the hole to dramatically reduce water ingress while the hole is open. Of course, this means someone has to be under the hull, but a large piece of coarse, water-resistant fabric will cut water flow to a fraction like 1 to 3% compared to the open hole. 2. If possible, leave the wooden bung in. It will swell and seal way better than any adhesive applied in a submerged environment. Adhering the bung gives extra peace of mind, considering it will be hard to sleep well for a while even under the best of conditions. SO GLAD you guys caught it in time and THANK YOU for documenting the incident so thoroughly. You've probably already saved some lives with the lessons so graphically illustrated here and will continue in the future. QUESTION: How deep was Lady K wallowing in the water relative to where wave action would start washing into the cockpit?

Rince cushion in fresh water they will not dry out when full of salt.

Glad to see you guys are underway again. One thing I've learned watching your videos and others is that you can never have enough spare parts. And multiple copies of spare parts.

Glad to y’all are safe glad your boat made it as well. Tanks for letting us be part of your life’s.

There is an Use your way to plug that hole. If you didn't mind going swimming you could take one the plugs in rubber mallet and go underwater and put through the hole on the outside the boat in the plug would be pushing into the boat preventing more water coming in. I've tried it it works it works.

On filling in both seacock holes. Before doing this, are you sure you'll never want to have a seacock for a future purpose? For instance, I know you have 6 big water jugs for extra water, but do you see a watermaker in your future? $ is probably a bit tight after the near sinking, but some watermakers are not that costly, $1500-1600 for ones from seawaterpro and $2800 from sunpurewatermakers . I have nothing to do with these co's just know of some cruisers who have installed. Putting in a replacement 3/4" forespar marelon seacock would run you around $65 plus shipping to Bahamas and you would not need to worry about corrosion. Just a thought. As far a filling in a hull hole- might want to watch youtube videos of Sail Life guy who has done a lot of DIY.

Just remember that the fiberglass up there will flex so keep a close eye on the screws holding that brace !!! I would of put a long bolt and nut and washers threw the wood plug from the outside that's how we fix barges until we can get them hauled out

I have used 5200 for over 40yrs--I trust and recommend the product. I have always distrusted those plastic speedo units. 40 yrs a dive, have assited many boat owners with these units. Have a safe voyage to your haul-out-----Mikey

Flex seal patch on the outside would stop the water pressure. Can be applied underwater. I always have a can on board.

We wish all the best, your boat will be better than it was after all the hard work yall put into.

Great work!

Yeah just read a few of the comments placing a bung inside the boat will stop rhe leak temporarily but a narrow tapered timber bung installed from outside the boat malleted in the taper is usually long enough so you can run a pin through the top of the thru hull , this fix will stay in place when the boat is moving no matter what the sea state ..

hope you guys have better luck for the rest of your trip we all miss you back at home! :) p.s its kendal tims daughter

Hi Uncle John here enjoy your stay in Georgetown it Has do you be nice to be with so many fellow Canadians kind of like home Enjoy your time with family and friends It is 19° here and snow on the ground watching your video makes me feel better

First video I watched by lady k was you sinking OMG heart racing moments That moment when you open a hole in your boat on purpose The sound of the water is sickening

Glad you MacGivered that catastrophe! Hello from Tecumseh On Lake St. Clair.... chilly here today. Have had barely any snow so far this winter. Good winds and Happy Sailing!

So glad to see things are getting back to normal. Looks like a great place to spend a couple months.

Great effort to get to Georgetown guys and I’m with you on glassing over the through-hull fitting. Enjoy the stay and visit from family/friends!

That was the best day of your life. Shit always happens. You were very lucky to get the help you got. You also had the wits to figure out the problem. Kudo's to you. Life is good.

Great to see you guys back up and moving!

What a terrible ordeal to go through. I am glad you two and the boat were saved. It’s hard to think when a shocking life threatening event first happens. It’s mostly panick at first. You both kept your heads and dealt with it. I have never been on a sailboat out of fear. My dad always kept a pleasure boat and we spent weekends and holidays boating all over Florida, no fears I loved it. Didn’t even get scared when we got caught in a bad storm and the waves were way over the boat. My dad knew how to captain a boat. Having said all that because I would trust you and get on a sailboat. Be well.

A lot of electrical items will be ok after a freshwater rinse as long as their was no power connected to them. Used to repair commercial high power inverters and the first thing we did when arriving for repair is to jetwash them inside & out including all the electronics to get 20odd years of dust & grime out of them.

Glad to hear the Flycrates lead helped you. Expensive but you hopefully you get what you need.

When getting stuff shipped sometimes it is best to find out what shipping company services that areas and have your items shipped by them if you can, it can save a weeks.

Nice video. Glad you both are in good spirits. I’d much rather be there fixing a boat than here in Rochester in the snow and ice.

So happy for you that the journey can continue. And for me (possibly others) to watch you continue your journey.

Back to port and have the boat lift to do a proper installation of the paddle wheel. Secure the locking ring with a thread so it doesn't unscrew no more.

take apart, soak in distilled, reassemble. make sink alarm with two wires and a cork in bilge to a buzzer from the battery.

Dry the tools out real well, I had entire set of Rigid cordless tools, including the charger, that went under water in Hurricane Sandy, all still work fine!!

Great video! Definitely looks like a place We could sail to and hang out. Love the color of the water!!

So happy to see you recovered from the near sink..... Good luck.

i get that fried electronics smell if i think too hard. hate that. boy....that water really rushes in when you pull that plug. it helped give me a better feel about how close you were to sinking. glad you're up and running again. great episode btw.

Excellent video. I like how you have us a bit of everything. I’m glad everything seems to be working out with the boat and that you two seem to be doing much better. Looking forward to seeing more progress on the cleanup and repairs.

Just got my notification for the episode. Stoked to watch!

So sorry to see that happen to you both but you did very well considering what was happening. You kept your cool and did everything right. Way to go and fair winds to you both.

Thank you so much for all your wonderful videos... I'm in lake erie an your videos are teaching me so much for when I decide to make my trip.... again thank you guys very much

So glad you are doing so much better and made it to Georgetown. Looking forward to you next videos. The best of luck.

You might want to check out the channel Sail Life Mads does a good job explaining how he glassed in unused thru hulls on his project boat.

To be honest that was scary just watching the light and water while changing the paddle wheel. Good job though.

Enjoy the Georgetown Cruiser community. if anything like Marathon in the Florida Key; You gonna have an awesome time and you will not want to leave. BTW say Hi to Steeve, SV Cactus, for me ;)

Bad place for the paddle wheel, when you are in a rough Sea.

There are notches in the thruhull fitting to make sure it is oriented Sotheby’s paddle wheel goes bow to stern. It will not fully screw down if the speedometer is not properly oriented.

LOL Thats exactly what I was expecting Icelandic humor The greatest episode guys well done Peace

I look Forward to your videos every week. I'm so glad you made it to Georgetown and and are doing alot better. Im up here by lake st claire And always wondered how one would get to the ocean from here. It's so cool how you did it. Your a blast to watch Thanks again.

Excellent work you guys...Wow...what a few days you had...

Glad able save your sailboat ⛵️! 😀⛵️😀

I hope what we did helped in some way or another guys.

In my experience with two boats with those paddle wheels the plugs have a key on them which fits into the through hull only one way, rotate the plug until it drops into the key way all the way then you will be able to screw the cover all the way down, hope that helps

Thank you for the knowledge you guys are very intelligent ⚓⛵⚓

Very Happy to see your safe and getting your good spirits back. Wishing continued good luck(u didnt sink :) ) and good health.

Nice to see your getting things put back together. Be safe and sail on.

You guys are awesome.

Great video glad you both are doing well and am glad you are at Georgetown. I would let a pro fix the whole in the hull. I am handy but after what you two experienced I would not want to try fixing it myself. That is just me. Enjoy your family visit Georgetown is very nice from what my friends tell me. have not been there yet but it is on my list my friend across the street went there a lot and loves it. Safe Sailing and Happy New Year.

You guys are amazing. Much love. Giver

The community that my sailboat is hooked at has a wonderful response community last month a boater was away when seacock hose failed and cracked under pressure someone noticed the boat was sitting low so everyone just springed into anction one person located the new hose and two others who had generator power and high suction hose got there started pumping while the others replaced the hose line and even after that myself and one other was at work so when we got off went down with fresh water and soap and started drying and diluting down the salt drying out any wet items i had a land spot to wash there clothes and everything went as calmly and organized as possible and i trust the community out there to do the same if anything happened while i was away. One individual went and moved my boat after a storm as my anchor slowly dragged my 100 feet of chain closer to another vessel and didn’t even know it was done till after of course i tip my fellow sailors with either extra gear or cash for assistance

Put the plug through the outer helmet and repair with tranquility

Electronics are fun, from an electrical engineer, LOL You can directly connect your solar pannel to batteries, you have to watch that you do not over charge, but in using your electrical system you would be hard pressed to overcharge your batteries, at night disconnect and see what your battery voltage is 13.5 volts or less, which is float voltage and you can use the full output of solar panels

Mine is a screw in with a pin that goes through the ducer as safety. Lucky it’s in a locker of its own you could make it water tight with a lid all good keep going

Another great video I look forward to this thanks have a beer for us in -30

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Don’t forget to Wd-40 that alternator good vid keep on keeping on

It makes a very disconcerting noise when you pull the plug as well!

Glad it's all working out and that you both are safe... Cannot understand how the designer of the fault causing part felt it a safe or good idea to design something so important so badly.. How many boats have gone down over the same stupid design if the company is still making them you should contact them and raise a stink... On a side note to do with carrying spares as sombody commented below: ...Boy Scout's Motto be prepared... I'm Told Lord Baden-Powell came up with this cause he was into sailing.... Wikipedia Statement " A camp for Scouts was held at Bucklers Hard, Hampshire in August 1909 at which boating activities were a focus. In 1911, Baden-Powell wrote the booklet Sea Scouting for Boys. Warington Baden-Powell wrote Sea Scouting and Seamanship for Boys in 1912, with a foreword by Robert Baden-Powell. " Just one of the useless facts floating around in my head :-)

The threads in the thru-hull fitting were probably munged by whamming in the wood plug.

Like half a gal of water per sec!!?? Wow!

I really appreciate your vlog, and I find your commentaries interesting. I am curious why you did not try to also plug the leak from the outside. It would have made inspection and repair easier I think. My curiosity continues: on a boat that big, would it not be a good idea to have a pair of automatic bilge pumps, instead of one that was 'on its last legs' ?

Sorry if I missed it, but did you ever figure out which part failed? Since both the plug and the transducer failed to screw down tight, I assume it has to be the threaded portion, but it seems like that would be visible. I have a similar setup and I'm about to head to that same location... I don't want to make a similar video!

I doubt you will get the foam in your cushions dry, unless you can rinse with huge quantities of fresh water. Even then they may stay damp,

I have been thinking about emergency battery or batteries higher up in the boat.

The color of that water...electric aquamarine I call it.

Oupps that’s a bug Did you ever think to put a plug from under water... that Way it can not come off😁

Plastic through hulls are the devil

The west sys is the best but u ave to know what the boat is polyester or something else on resin and twelve to one one grinding ratio on hull thickness you can make that patch stronger than factory JOHN

Actually dude you are better off running a solar controller for each panel so 2 30a controllers having seperate controllers increases the charge current substantially

I thought those through hulls were supposed to have a flapper to minimize water flow when swapping/pulling speedo wheel?

C´est vrai ce ne sont pas mes onions, mais bon, bah, bref: By the way there are excellent videos here on youtube about this case, see Yachting Monthly's Crash Test Boat - Through Hull Failure So lets do the math, for all of us: I presume that the transducer has a diameter of an inch, well mine has (if wrong correct me)! So the inflow of water was about (taking the high estimate of the seacock being 1m below waterline) a small bathtub a minute (well recording to Bernoulli). 25,4 mm= 1” = 135 l/m = 8100 l/h = 2100 G/H 31,0 mm= 1 ¼ “ = 200 l/m = 12000 l/h = 3170 G/H 38,0 mm= 1 ½ “ = 300 l/m = 18000 l/h = 4750 G/H Inflow with through hole 0,5m below waterline 25,4 mm= 1” = 96 l/m = 5760 l/h = 1520 G/H 31,0 mm= 1 ¼ “ = 142 l/m = 8520 l/h = 2250 G/H 38,0 mm= 1 ½ “ = 213 l/m = 12780 l/h = 3375 G/H Looking at your boats waterline, it seems to be just about your seats height in the settee, so you have probably taken on the amount of water equivalent to your construction displacement hence about 5000 l. Well then the intake must have been going on for at least 30 minutes (15min at 1 ½ inches). You had three Pumps, ok one was probably an old piston pump, mine does 20 l/min, so it would slow things a bit, but would go down under anyway. In modern times I would not consider this a sufficient bilge pump, mine just empties my grey water/sump tank. I never heard anything about the third one, so it was obviously not ready for action. Now the more power full bilge pumps in mid price range would manage about 190l/min at level and 100 l/min lifting 2 m, so they likely would have equalled the intake. The same holds truth for the best manual pumps, about 100 l/min at lifting 1m, this would leave you with 4 buckets a minute. So if you could not keep up with the inflow, you can´t have done better than a good pump would have! Do the math, or look at your own footage, if you manage to get the bucket (10 liters) filled ¾ (which obviously was not achievable) it would mean to gush out more then a bucket every 3 seconds, to equal the inflow not talking about a good pump, well then good luck trying and keeping it up for a while! Now it´s true the smaller older manual pumps just manage about 50 l/m, but looking at min 8:50 to 9:06 I highly doubt that you ever reached that rate! Thus the scared boater and bucket is, in modern times, I am sorry, for me a myth. But as said, I seem to miss out on something here. I would definitively go with an investment of about 170 $ (electric + manual), ad the Submersible Sump Pump with chopper (4356GPH, would probably have done the job all alone) for the generator (in a dry bag) and hose 130$, happier cruising for 300$. Fair winds the angry ol monk An please, please, do find a way to drain your cockpit sufficiently and get an acrylic and sealed dropboard (4" perhaps) for your frightening low companionway. I would not like to even imagine getting pooped/boarded by a wave with this setup.

put vasoline on it the o-ring

Hello Capt Tim. Real bummer about the results of your hull sensor issue. Watching your plug test I'm wondering why your thru fitting flapper is not helping to slow down the water ingress. That indicates that the flapper on the thru hull is gone or it is stuck. If stuck it can hang the sensor or the plug up from fully seating. Sometimes folks get so anxious about removing the sensor and or plug, they jam it in there in haste and cause damage to the flapper. So it just sits there against the thru hull interior and hangs things up. Or... it gets bent and hangs things up. Worth exploring I think because you can inspect the threads and if they're sharp ridged on both the cap and the through hull then that's probably not your problem. The sensor or plug must seat all the way before you start tightening. If it's hung up the threads will not draw it down. It will start but will not draw it down. Any arrow on the sensor top is simply a reminder of which way is the front of the boat so that the paddle wheel gets oriented properly. Also the comment regarding lubing the O ring is very important. At times it's the difference between getting it in and being confused about why it won't go in. When either the sensor or plug seats, you can feel it set. There should be an O ring on the top and bottom of both the sensor and plug. Forgive me but I'm somewhat opposed to you putting anything permanent over that cap. If we're all wrong and that thing is seriously jacked you'll want to get at it without restriction. Whatever shoring you do should be temporary until you can properly investigate. It's a hole in the boat right? Anyway, love your trek and vids. Thanks for sharing.....Capt Kaz

You got lucky... could have lost the boat!

I work at a boat yard.

It is just a suggestion that is scary almost losing everything.

Sometimes there is a notch on the plug so it aligns the paddle wheel and you need to turn it to push all the way in then screw it on.

If you guys decide to sell and go for another boat I have a Hunter 41 DS for sale in Punta Gorda Florida all set up for long range cruising.

Underwater patch material?

Plastic crap you don't want to use. Yep just glass it over.

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Plug it and glass it! OFF TOPIC....would you consider Norman's Pond a good hurricane hole?

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