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General => Kayak Sailing => Topic started by: Wildrooster on July 29, 2018, 11:50:45 AM

Title: My wife sunk my AI
Post by: Wildrooster on July 29, 2018, 11:50:45 AM
My wife was useing the AI and left the rear hatch open
She got swamped by a passing boat and the adventure took on enough water to submerge the main hull wile barley afloat only because of the poontunes I hauled her in the main hull was five inches under water and she was frecking out
So glade she was near shore
I swam out grabbed the bowline and pulled her in the water was not deep and she had a life jacket but panicked she wasn’t thinking

The point is secure you hatches
And keep your head on if we had been out in open water her inability to think clearly could have cost her life

It’s also a testament to the safety of the adventure series
Title: Re: My wife sunk my AI
Post by: Eddie on July 29, 2018, 11:53:36 AM
Wow, that's solid marriage stuff, glad all is well :smt006
Title: Re: My wife sunk my AI
Post by: Darius (Burong Isda) on July 29, 2018, 11:54:49 AM
 :jawdrop Im glad she is OK. Thanks for sharing it.
Title: Re: My wife sunk my AI
Post by: NowhereMan on July 29, 2018, 12:05:35 PM
Holy cow! Glad that turned out OK.

Just curious if you have pool noodles stuffed inside the hull. I'd think that a fair number of pool noodles together with the foam blocks that come with the boat would keep it from submerging, even when swamped.
Title: Re: My wife sunk my AI
Post by: Wildrooster on July 29, 2018, 01:45:14 PM
No just the way the factory made it
Title: Re: My wife sunk my AI
Post by: yatzmail@yahoo.com on July 29, 2018, 03:53:07 PM
That was close and glad she is alright  :smt006
Title: Re: My wife sunk my AI
Post by: Wildrooster on August 30, 2018, 05:25:11 AM
I wish I had pictures
You would have thought a shark was attacking her the way she was acting
Kinda funny looking back at it
Title: Re: My wife sunk my AI
Post by: Weimarian on August 30, 2018, 06:07:11 AM
My advise, remove that last post before she sees it :smt044 :smt044 :smt044 Glad she's ok!
Title: Re: My wife sunk my AI
Post by: Squidder K on August 30, 2018, 11:00:41 AM
After my roll at HMB, I lost a hatch, and the boat also flooded, I could get on and then go right back over again. Did that three times.  After that incident I hooked a bungee and keep a pump in a place where I can get to it to save my butt the next time. 
Title: Re: My wife sunk my AI
Post by: Ling A Ding on August 30, 2018, 07:22:03 PM
I was too anxious to get out that I did not put back the O-ring for the transducer cable going into the hull. The access into the hull was actually below the waterline on my Revo16.  Slowly and surely I was going down.  Flipped over at the mouth of the harbor at Richmond.  Lost my drive too.  So it was a costly mistake.  Good thing the pool noodle kept the revo16 afloat.
Title: Re: My wife sunk my AI
Post by: Ariel Sea on August 31, 2018, 08:21:22 AM
I like to leave the rear hatch open, when my wife borrows the kayak.
Title: Re: My wife sunk my AI
Post by: hightide on August 31, 2018, 09:38:27 AM
I like to leave the rear hatch open, when my wife borrows the kayak.
Hahaha
Title: Re: My wife sunk my AI
Post by: NowhereMan on August 31, 2018, 04:58:30 PM
I like to leave the rear hatch open, when my wife borrows the kayak.

Might be less obvious to remove the drain plug...
Title: Re: My wife sunk my AI
Post by: DrHabanero on September 06, 2018, 12:05:56 PM
She left the hatch open?    :smt044
https://abcnews.go.com/US/york-kayak-murder-case-timeline-events-mysterious-death/story?id=34973210

Sorry , glad she is okay. Never take for granted any time on the water. Shit happens!