drain sock or elephants trunk

[Sonar]

Are there any ribs out there in use that do NOT have a drain sock or elephants trunk.

Or is this a must have item even though one may or will have a bilge pump.

[Nasher]

I'd consider them a must.

You'd need a huge bilge pump to clear water on deck as fast.

But they must have a way to drop them quickly and easily.

Nasher.

[Sonar]

Originally Posted by Nasher

I'd consider them a must.

You'd need a huge bilge pump to clear water on deck as fast.

But they must have a way to drop them quickly and easily.

Nasher.

just been looking at these

http://www.rib-shop.com/prodtype.asp...ageHistory=cat

thinking 68mm ????

[PeterM]

I dont - but do have 2 very similar to the 68mm ones. With bung in most of the time as they leak water in if not moving.

If I ever get so much water in the boat to need more (and the 2 bilge pumps) I shouldn't be out & deserve to sink ..........

[Nasher]

They look good to me, and appear good value.

Although they are very simple to make by laying up glassfibre around a drainpipe(inside for a neater outside finish) and gluing up a tube out of a rectangle of hypalon.



Nasher

[chewy]

I've got two 68mm, if I was to fit my boat out again I'd get the 110mm, just personal preference.

[biffer]

i have no trunks out the back of my boat and it's unrestricted cat3 coded

[ribmad]

the flatacraft force 4 didnt but thats quite old i think most do now

[chewy]

My mates Narwahl doesn't it has a flap on some bungee cord that in theory lets water out not in.

[Nasher]

Originally Posted by ribmad

the flatacraft force 4 didnt but thats quite old i think most do now

The Force 4 had various forms of one way valve instead, the best of which was a simple neoprene and aluminium flap over the hole.

The later ball valve design only needed a small piece of seaweed or gravel off the beach to breath on it before it started leaking.

Nasher.