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Trying to Stay Dry
by John Temple
My boat is very wet. Is there a solution other than buying another boat?
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I can`t count how many times I had the boat all cleaned and was just taking a short hop to another spot. As I rounded a spit, the breeze and current caused a small chop, just enough to spray salt all over the boat. And as luck would have it, I could not spray or wash down the boat at the new location. This rarely happens now. We put spray rails on our Carver 390, a very wet boat.
The rails are a curved gutter-like material, hard but flexible, which is attached to the bow. The curve, of course, points down. Water is then curled and pushed out, eliminating spray coming up. Obviously, if you are in heavy seas, you will still get wet, but I think the rails even help a bit in this condition. Also, they give the boat a bit of added lift.
Be sure to enlist the help of a professional to install the spray rails. They need to be installed correctly to have their intended effect, and it`s not something a lot of boaters have experience doing.
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This article first appeared in the July 1, 2010 issue of Sea Magazine. All or parts of the information contained in this article might be outdated. |
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