Why Boats SINK! (How To STOP Your Boat From Sinking)

Would it be okay to put a 51 kilogram motor on a haul that is only meant to hold 42 kilograms max

That depends on the hall because really 51 kilograms and 42 kilograms

you're only talking about like nine kilograms or 20 pounds. That's not a whole lot of weight

But weight is a pretty big factor, especially on the back of the boat

depending on how the hall is laid out. if your hole has scuppers in the back or something like that

and you put too much weight back there. I mean, this is, we're talking about little engines here

So honestly, you're 51 and 42. You'd probably be all right. Really, all you got to do is with your 42 kilogram engine

that's on the back of the boat already, just take a brick or something that's nine kilograms

stick it in the back of the boat and see what it does and how it performs

So if it changes anything about the boat, then I'd probably stay away from the 51 kilogram

but if you can't even tell the difference, then that's to your own discretion on what you want to do there

Now, when you start talking about larger engines, say a 700 pound engine versus a 500 pound engine

and you're adding a couple hundred pounds or 100 kilograms to the back of the boat

well, this could be a problem because let's say you walk to the back of the boat when you're fishing

and there's two or three of you. You know, two or three guys are people on the boat

walk to the back of the boat to get a fish, and now all of a sudden the back of the boat

starts to go into water, especially if you got a bracket. We'll take that example. Let's say you got a boat that's got a bracket

and scuppers where the deck drain is. So the deck, anywhere that goes on the deck goes out to scuppers

And you got three people that walk to the back of the boat and then stand on that bracket for the transom

and that pushes that bracket down, water comes in through your deck drains, and now all of a sudden

you've got the boat filling up full of water, and depending on how the boat is laid out

you could sink the boat. So weight is a very, very serious thing to think about when you're talking about weight and the weight

of an engine. I mean, granted, our example here, we're talking about 20 pounds, you know, the safety hazard there's

probably very minimal. every boat's different. So who knows if you've really got a safety problem or not

I would say to put a nine kilogram bag of sand or a brick or, you know

whatever, a battery or something in the back of the boat to simulate that weight

and see how the boat performs. That's always the best way to do anything

When you're trying to think about weight is find something with similar weight that

you're trying to change, put it in the location that you're planning on changing the weight

and then see how the boat performs. Now, if you've got too much weight in other areas

like let's say you've got too much weight in the bow of the boat, and now the bow is plowing through the water

if you get caught in a storm with a lot of rollers and you're bow plowing with that boat

it doesn't take a lot to have a wave come over the bow

fill the boat up full of water, and sink it. I mean, that's a problem

Weight is a huge thing to think about when you're adding weight and moving weight in a boat

That's one reason why a boat would sink, but there are plenty of other reasons why a boat sinks

If you got a hole in it, a broken hose below the water line

like say you've got a live well or you've got raw water washdown

something like that, and you've got raw water coming in the boat onto a hose going to your pump

or live well or whatever, and that hose breaks. And now you've got a hole in the boat

filling the boat full of water, that's going to potentially sink the boat. that's why it's super important that, you know, maybe once a year you go and exercise the shot off valves to these hoses and these water intakes that you have in the boat

Ballast tanks, that's another one. Like if you've got a lake boat and it's a wakeboard boat or a ski boat and you use ballast tanks, usually they have a raw water intake so that you can fill up those ballast tanks

Now, if one of those hoses breaks, I mean, on a 21-foot boat, it doesn't take a whole lot of time for the boat to fill up full of water

and you could either roll the boat and sink it, or it just rolls over and then it's, you know, just capsized

So exercising those shutoff valves and knowing where those shutoff valves are on the boat

is pretty important if you're the boat owner or you operate the boat. So that way, if there is a problem

that way you can make sure you can stop the boat from filling up with water

if there is a problem with the hose, the pump, or anything like that. And back to those deck drains that we're talking about with people going

of the back of the boat, stepping over the transom, getting on the platform, and submerging the

back end of the boat, same thing. Watch those scuppers. Some boats have underwater drains where the deck will drain into a drain that then goes

down out the back of the boat under the water line. And those hoses, if you've got a problem with those hoses or the clamps break or, you know

the drain itself breaks and that thing falls down. now you've got a hole in the boat under the water line that could fill up the boat and sink it

And if you see a steady stream of water coming out the side of your boat, you should probably lift out the bilge and take a look and see what's going on down there

So what to do if the boat starts sinking and how to stop it? That's pretty much what you want to know

Now, depending on if it's a hose or a drain or whatever, figure out where the water's coming in and then try and plug it

I mean, you can use a screwdriver, you can use a weight

you could use a rag, you know, anything that you can do to stop that leak, you know

plug that hole is going to be, you know, what you want to do

If you can't get to where the water's coming in, then you can take a rag or something

go outside of the boat, get in the water, and wherever that hole is, it's coming in

like the pickup or something, go out on the outside of the boat, get in the water

and try and put the rag on the hole or plug it from the outside in

because all the water is going to be funneling into the boat. So if you put something on the outside, it's going to, you know

suck it up to the bottom of the boat or it's going to suck it up into that through hole

And that'll plug it, which will slow down, if not stop the water from coming in

And then as long as your builds pumps and your float switches are working, you can get, you can stay ahead of the water flow

Now, if you take water over the bow or you're standing on the back of the boat and you

start taking in a massive amount of water, then hopefully your deck drains are working because

there nothing that you can do outside of that The water the boat should be designed to take on that water and then let it go out quickly Make sure there nothing plugging up your deck drains Now going back to our original question about the weight capacity and how to figure out boat weight capacity

and how much weight is currently on the boat, the best way to do that is kind of just look up

the model number, the year or whatever, of the boat, and you'll be able to find the normal dry weight of that boat

That's going to be the boat's weight without a full fuel tank, without a full freshwater washdown tank, without a full waste tank, without all your gear on the boat, without the people on the boat

And you pretty much going to work off of that number. Now, the other way is to have a wait

You can go to a way station and weigh it. You can take it to a marina and have them pull it out

And most forklists, you're going to have a scale built into them

So they'll be able to see what the weight is. the boat is in its current state, which is, you know, have a lot of your gear and stuff on there

And then most boats that are not yacht certified are going to have a placard on the side of them

somewhere on the boat that's going to give you the personnel capacity as long as the, as well as your

weight capacity. You know, a lot of 21 footers, stuff like that. Those smaller boats are going to tell you you can only have four or five people

you can only have, you know, two 2,500 pounds on the boat

A lot of times that weight limit is based on how the boat performs in the water

how that affects the static water line of the boat, being the where the water line, the outside water line is on the hall

and then a lot of that factors into where the deck drains are and stuff like that

So if you put too much weight in the boat and the static water line is normally, you know

four inches from the deck drain, but you overload this boat, and now all of a sudden the boat's down in the water far enough to let water into the deck

drains, then you're going to sink the boat. And once you overload a boat, I mean, there's other issues there

I mean, you put too many people on the boat. Now all of a sudden it's topsy-turvy and you could roll it

Turns are going to be a problem. Bow plowing is going to be a problem

Performance is just going to be a problem all around. You see it all the time

People overloading a boat to just haul people to sandbar, stuff like that

I mean, people overload boats to a ridiculous amount where they're just going from, you know

100 yards over to the sandbar. And so they put 34 people on the boat with all the coolers, the umbrellas, the gear, the chairs, like everything

Another problem with overloading it is probably going to be the strength of the boat

Let's say it's a cheaper made boat. you put too many people on it and you start to break the fiberglass of the deck to the gunnels

um, create stress cracks, stuff like that. So I would say those are going to be your main things of overloading a boat above capacity

Any chance you could share your gun setup, pressures, tip size, etc

For me, I use, I mostly use just the cheaper husky gun from Home Depot

It's an HVLP. I think it's like a high volume, low pressure gun

It's just a hopper gun, gravity feed, and you hook it up to an air compressor

Now, the tip, it's the $100 gun, so it comes with the hopper, the gun

the regulator, and the little nipple to hook it to the hose. Now, a couple things

You want to have a larger air compressor. The one that I normally would shoot with

is like a 60 or an 80-gallon tank. usually around 120 PSI for the air compressor

but your gun, you don't want that much pressure to go through it. You mainly want to make sure for that one

I think the tip is like a 1.4 or a 1.8, something like that

And for that one, depending, every gun's different, and depending on what you're spraying, what type of paint

what type of, you know, are you spraying gel coat, are you spraying all grip

you sparing into it. I mean, like, whatever or interlux, whatever your spraying is going to kind of change your tip

and your pressure size. But when I was spraying the all grip, you really don't want your gun

Dropping below pressure is going to be a problem. So if you drop below pressure when you're spraying it, it'll, like, beat up and it'll have

a bad spray pattern. So I think I didn't let that for that one

I don't think it dropped below like 50 or 60 PSI when I pulled the trigger

So if I just held the trigger down, it was like 50, 60 PSI

and I could just continue to spray on with no issues. Again, some of those HVLP guns are going to be less

I know a lot of them are like 30 PSI or something like that

So depending on the gun that you have, it's going to kind of give you that information on what pressure you need

and what it needs or what you're spraying, how thick is it

How much are you reducing it? Did you reduce it 10%? Did you reduce it 25%

I mean, and also you want to keep a bigger tank. You don't want to run out of air in the middle of a line because then it will, again

it'll mess up your spray pattern and you have a problem. You have to respray it

Another thing about the paint is that you want to have separators, water separators on the

airlines. So normally two is good or one really big one. So that way, before you even start

spraying, you can dump both of your water separators and, you know, spray. And then as you're

spraying, depending on how much you're spraying, you want to make sure you empty those water

pressures or those water separators. Because if you get water in the line and you put, you know

water with the air into the gun and spray that water out

another thing is going to mess you all up and you're going to have to respray the boat. Definitely that would be the biggest things that I would think are going to be the most

factorial in spraying something. I did my 15 foot rinker runabout. I, the EVA teak style, I ordered, I'm guessing you say it

I ordered the EVA teak style Amazon foam. I have it have on it now

My problem is it doesn't stick to raw fiberglass. Bubbles and comes off in the sun, but it's fine on gel coated fiberglass

My question is, should I use gel coat to get that finish so it sticks

Or is there a better paint product that easier to work with Top side paint comes to mind I mean gel coat going to be more durable Paint chips were a lot easier I mean

it's easier to scratch and chip paint than it is gel coat. Jail coat's going to be more durable than the paint is

But it depends on how high traffic the area is going to be

If you're talking about a 15 foot rinker, I'm sure that thing had carpet in it before

I had an 18 rinker. and it was all carpet in the whole boat

You're talking about a runabout. Yeah, it should all be carpet. So you probably took the carpet up

And it's not sticking to the raw fiberglass bubbles and comes off in the sun

I wonder if there's a way to, depending on what stuff you ordered from Amazon

the sticker just might be the problem. You know, try and clean the service

before you put it on there. And then now that you've already got it, you're probably trying to use that

So some sort of a new adhesive or an epoxy. Maybe try GFlex

It's an adhesive, that five minute adhesive. You can try that and scuff up the surface

before you put it on there. So lay your teak stuff down

trace it with pencil, pull it back up, you know, sand down wherever you're going to be trying to stick that to with

120 sandpaper or something like that and then clean it all off with acetone let your adhesive go you

mix up your two-part adhesive lay that down then lay your sticker back down and see if that holds it

um it should but that'd be what i would do or you know re-gill-cote and hope it sticks to the new gel coat

i would go with the gel coat over the paint just because a gel coat is going to be more durable

if the surface that you're trying to put that gel coat on has been painted previously

I doubt it was painted from the factory, but if it has been

then you're going to need to sand that paint off. You can't put gel coat over paint

It has adherence problems. So Antonio Lopez, great video. I have always been afraid to clean the inside of the engine

Thanks. Yeah, definitely. Don't be afraid to clean the inside of your engine

and it is very important to keep your engine clean. Definitely prolongs the life of the engine

If you got the engine full of salt and dirt and now your engine's just breathing all that dirty air

could cause you internal issues inside the engine. You're feeding the bad air, particles, dirt, debris

all kinds of stuff, salt. I mean, it's not good for your combustion chamber

or anything else that's inside the boat. So definitely clean, the engine. All right. Angel

Sanchez. Sorry, I'm going to go against the grain. This video and

content kind of sucks. Thanks, Captain. Captain, obvious, that is. Thank you, sir. I appreciate your

comment. Feeding the algorithm. That's really good for the channel. Lini Lumim, what color is that? The color

on the bolleynutter, that is all-grip ice blue. It's just a light blue. I really like that

color. In that tent, it was really hard. The video kind of doesn't show it as good as how pretty that color really is

It's probably one of my favorite colors. I mean, it's just that light teal, ice blue

It looks really good in the sun. In most of those videos, we were in a tent

And so you didn't really get to see how blue it is. I mean, it's really, really blue

And it looks kind of whited out in a lot of the video

but that blue is a really pretty blue. Mr. Waugh, man, I ran mine for about 10 minutes before my overheat alarm started to sound scared

Okay, so this guy is running his engine on a flush attachment for too long

That's a video about flushing your engine and running it on the hose, which, yeah, like I said in the video, you don't want to run

You know, the flush attachment is for flushing the engine. You're really not supposed to run it on the flush attachment unless you are like trying to test something or just run it for a minute, make sure it shifts, stuff like that

You're like testing stuff on the engine. So you can hook your flush attachment up to the engine and run it for most outboards

And again, this is going to depend on your water pressure at the hose

So if you've got 10 PSI water pressure at your hose, you shouldn't run your engine for 10 minutes on the water hose

It's going to overheat. by and large, if you only run that engine for a minute or two

on that water, it's going to stay cool. You're not going to overheat. Not going to be a problem

But, yeah, if you hook it up to your hose and run the engine, then walk away for 15, 20 minutes

I mean, it's probably going to overheat. It's not made for that

And then now that we've got such large job wards, you're talking about 500, 600, 600 horsepower engines

they're huge. You can't run those on the flush attachment. But a good old Yamaha F-150

and 200s and even the 3-3-leaders and those, you know, anything under 300 horsepower, it's going to be fine

Richard Laid, to do this for a living, do you need to have a license to work on people's boats to get paid, basically

Really, you could do whatever you want, bro. If someone's willing to let you work on their boat without a license

and without insurance, I mean, that's between you and the person's boat that you're working on

and if you break something, who's liable and who's paying for the fixes and stuff like that

So I would say you definitely want to be licensed and insured if you're working on people's boats like for a living

Now, if you're just helping out your neighbor and if you and your neighbor trying to work on stuff

then, you know, that's between you and your neighbor. But if you want to make real money working on people's boats and you want to get paid for it

I would say make an LLC, make sure it's an S-corpor election

and yeah, get insured. Licenses, you know, that's just your business license

But other than that, there's not really a license to work on someone's engine or boat or stuff like that

If you don't want to change, if you don't change your impeller every other season, you're asking for trouble

That's true. That is true depending on where you live and how you use your boat, how you store your boat

If you let those impellers go for too long, that could be a problem. I know there's going to be a ton of people out there that are going to say that's not true

because they've had their 1982 Evan Rude since 1983. And in Wisconsin they have not changed the impeller but once back in 1995 So hit or miss I would say yeah if you in a hot climate you going offshore

you're using your boat regularly, then, yeah, change that thing every other season or else you will be asking for trouble

My last boat project was a 76 Montauk whaler. I was too intimidated by gel coat and having to spray it, so I rolled and tipped paint

it looks great, but I really wish I did gel coat. Always the next time, though

Thanks for the great videos. I mean, you can roll gel coat too

You don't have to spray gel coat. I mean, spraying paint is easier than spraying gel coat

and spraying paints easier than rolling and tipping. It's all on the prep work

As long as you prep everything right, then spraying the paint takes an hour or whatever

depending on how much you're spraying. But, yeah, you can roll gel coat

Jail coat's super easy to roll. Obviously, it's going to depend on the temperature and where you're at

If you're down in South Florida and it's 95 degrees outside, then gel coat's going to kick off really quick, but so is the paint

So I don't know. I think gel coat is more intimidating to people just because it's thicker

and it's just unfamiliar. Everybody knows paint. gel coat is a different word. It's a different product. So I think it intimidates people

even though it's not that different of a product. You know, it's, you mix up your paint and you mix

up your gel coat. So paint, most paint is of one to one, depending on the brand, depending on

the type, depending on the top coat, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, there's different ones. Some's two to one

Some's a one to one. Some's require a reducer, but they all have instructions with them and you've got to mix

it either way. So gel coat, it's, you still have to mix it just like you have to mix the paint

You just have to do more measuring. And most gel code just mixes with an M-E-K

and it's just a smaller amount. So you pour your gel-coat into your container

you measure out your M-E-K, you pour it in and mix it up, and then you can just roll it on

If you spray it, yeah, there's a lot more to it because you have to reduce it and stuff like that

But rolling the gel-coats easy, and then you just make sure your last

coat of gel coat like say you do two two coats or three coats whatever depending on the area

it's more durable than paint it's not going to chip as easy so i would put a gel coat on the

on the deck on anything just because of the durability factor but if you do three coats of it

your last coat you just have to make sure you put a sanding aid in it or a wax to allow it to

cure uh some gel coats take you know a long period of time to cure but

most of them by the next day it's hard so as long as you put that wax in there you get to go

i mean rolling and tipping i think's harder than spraying or rolling gel coat on like a floor

i've never really tried to roll and tip gel coat on a vertical surface though so

not a hundred percent eddie this guy that paint is not made for under the water line buddy

Um, yeah, I know. It's got to have, get bottom paint on it

No, that's the ugliest boat I ever seen with the console up in the bow

Really? I mean, I don't know about that. I kind of like the look of a bullying cutter

I mean, I think they look cool, you know. I guess that's a personal preference to be

And it's also the functionality of the boat. I mean, the boat's meant to go in four inches of water and you'd be able to

look down the front of it. Obviously, you're not going to four inches of water. But nonetheless, it's meant to go in super shallow waters and allow you to be on the front of

the boat looking in the water. So I guess it depends on what kind of boating you're used to doing and what kind of boats

you're used to seeing and how exactly you use a boat. But for a bully netter, that's the ugliest boat

I don't know. I don't know about that. There's some pretty ugly boats out there. I sprayed my 13 whaler with Allcraft 2000, Snow White and the interior with Raptor liner

I love the Raptor liner because it fills any imperfections. Man, people are putting that on everything

I mean, people are putting that Raptor liner on like the whole car

Like, people are spraying their entire car with Raptor liner. I don't know

I guess it goes back to the eglest boat and how you use it

So if you're doing, you raptor lining the entire Jeep and you're going to mudding all the time

then yeah, I guess that's all right. I don't know. I wonder what that feels like as far as going barefoot in the boat and how rugged the raptor is that you put on there

As a painting contractor for 40 years, I say that you are way too trigger happy

That's true. Next time, keep the trigger pin down until the hopper hits empty

or just try to do longer end-to-end strokes to minimize so many chances of runs

I'm giving you a seven. A seven. That's generous. That is a generous seven

But only because you use the cone filters. Yeah. Love the progress

Last thing that the tack cloth comes with a risk because of their wax content

they can cause fish eyes if wiped back and forth too aggressively

I use compressed air. and a fox tail brush. Hmm. I like that tip of the fox tail brush with the compressed air

so you don't need the tack cloth. Never tried that, but now I know

Thank you. And thanks for the seven, too. That's, like I said

very generous. I am way too trigger-happy. And I don't know if

yeah, I guess trigger happy is the right word because I go too fast. And like Donnie was saying

you know, you're getting too close to the book. and then, you know, I'll do good for three passes

and then all of a sudden now I'm back to being too close. So I think going slow and staying at the same distance

it's going to be probably my two main problems. And, yeah, trigger happy, going, going too quick

Going too quick is going to be the problem. My biggest problem

So trigger happy. Yep. Now, if you want to know more information

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