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From: Gary (no email)
Date: Sat Feb 07 2004 - 12:04:27 EST
Just wondering about their effectiveness and if there has been a
real life example out there of these bags actually saving a boat.
Thanks
--- In , "R. A. Hettinga" <rah at s dot dot dot >
wrote:
> At 11:00 AM -0500 2/7/04, Courtney Thomas wrote:
> >Yacht flotation tanks are inflatables [by onboard compressed gas
tank]
> >placed in strategic locations aboard to be activated in the event
of
> >excessive water being taken on and to displace water, keep the
boat
> >afloat until repairs can be undertaken, water bailed and rescue
measures
> >implemented.
>
> More tersely, it's an airbag you blow up so your, heh, monohull,
won't sink...
>
> ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> RAH
>
> --
> -----------------
> R. A. Hettinga <mailto: rah at i dot dot dot >
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antiquity,
> [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
> experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman
Empire'
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