Sunken Dyne

There is a lot to be said about level flotation in the newer boats, sorry to see such a mishap. A couple of summers ago my kids and I were out for a cruise in our 20 family skier on a calm day on Lake Michigan. Trying to cross a large boats wake we were instead swallowed by it and had the boat completely filled to the top with water, of course the kids thought it was cool and wanted to do it again, scared the #*@& out of me, a wall of water totally engulfed the boat. Thanks to level flotation foam, the boat stayed afloat. The engine was still running, I pulled the drain plug, kept going, kept bailing and all of the water drained. we continued our day, very wet,down one cell phone, with a soggy lunch, and havent had any issues due to our mishap since. Best of luck with yours, its such a great looking rig.

By the way, it must have been painful to have a Mastercraft tow the Dyne in.......

 

All I can say is: WOW! Actually I said an obscene word, but I am trying to keep it clean here. Truly scary. I remember back in the mid 80s the Chain Skimmers had a 18 and a Mastercraft for their boats. They use to keep them in the water, or on shore stations over night. I remember one evening some vandals decided it would be funny to pull the boat plug and sink the Dyne while at the pier. Needless to say the boat was found just like how your boat was, with just the nose in the air. It was powered by a Evinrude 175. It too was saved after the drowning. Remember that Pam?

Greg

 

Thanks for reminding me.

But that's ok, the team just bought that boat from our club president, and it's been spending more time being worked on than getting used.

 

How long did the recovery mission take to get the boat on trailer?

 

I would guess it was on the beach and mostly drained within about 10 minutes. By the end of the show (another 30 minutes) I was ready to put the plugs back in, pull it off the beach, and fire it up. I let it idle for about 2 minutes to help remove the remaining bits of water, but not too much that I was sending more water in with the gas and oil. Then we towed it back to the landing (about a half mile away) and loaded it up on the trailer.

Boat flipped around 7:30, and was back on the trailer about 9:00. Could have been quicker if there wasn't a show still going on and throwing waves at me and the wide open motor with no spark plugs in it. So everytime a boat went by, I had to cover the motor with a beach towel to help keep the splashing water off the motor.

 

WOW at least you got a cool story to go with the sinking. in the early 90's my 18 sunk while at dock during a rain storm. the only thing hold it up wass the dock lines. we spun her around in the water, hooked her up to another boat, pulled her to plane, and pulled the plug. a few times up and down the river and most of the water was out.

 

And there you have another way to empty a boat. I never thought about trying that. The beach looked so apealing and safe.

 

I had an airboat back in the 60's. I went off of a drop off into the water and the bow went under scooping up a lot of water. I managed to get it up on plane although, as you can imagine, it was very unstable. I ran it aground and took the plugs out. The water ran out of it for a long time. No harm was done.

jim

 

How did it leak around the (additional) fins and not get water into the keel?

jim