BVIs to the Azores - Day Fourteen 33 46.314N 042 23.249W
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Mike and Liz Downing
Tue 10 Jun 2014 21:42
Made another addition to my scupper repair yesterday and hoped that would do the trick, and luckily it did. With all that rain last night the deck got a good soaking, but that was only a small part of the water it took. In the big sea the boat will roll to leeward as a big wave comes under the quarter, and roll far enough for the leeward rail to go under the wave as it passes under the boat. With a significant, solid toe rail, as the boat comes back up it scoops half the ocean up with it and the water has no where to go other than up and down a couple of inches or more deep along the deck until the two scuppers (we have two on each side) drain it away. So the leaky scupper had to contend with this happening quite a lot last night, so it got a really severe test. And so far, nothing has come through. So the repair was completed just in the nick of time!
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