My first boat, a P18, yellow asym. hulls, #333.

While ~5mi offshore of West Beach, Galveston this boat began to take on water. I had a recent bottom job done, that had ruptured and leaked. To make a long stroy short, it floated after righting with the tops of the decks at the waterline, most everything underwater, but it floated my brother and I as a friend on a P16 towed the boat and us back to shore. It seemed that it had the floatation inherent in it not to sink, that was salt water however, may have made a difference.

I think someone should try it, take out the plugs, and inspection port lids, fully rigged, and see what it does, salt and fresh water. We could post it here in sort of a table format. I"m sure someone with a 6.0 could tell me their results 8'), it's be in the interest of safety research, let me know how your 6.0 does, I'll make a note.

Todd Bouton
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