Why do most smaller personal boats have holes that you need to plug before going in water?
I assume since we don’t permanently plug them since water inevitably gets in during operation that needs to be drained. Where does that water come from? Why is it designed that way?
In theory, if a boat that has removable is in water long enough without coming out to drain, would the boat sink because of the water that came in during use?
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That much water is not a normal occurrence. But my dad’s ski boat (which is basically a turbocharged 464 that happens to float) has enough power that if you gun it at just the right moment as a big wave comes, it can jump completely out of the water. After figuring that out, he quickly found out that if another wave is at exactly the right (wrong?) distance away, the bow will go right into it and swamp the boat. He was very glad to have a drain plug instead of having to figure out how to flip it over to drain.
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