I may need enlightenment.

Believe the .89 figure is not right and could be inverted.

If I have a 6000# boat and I use the 58# reserve bouyancy per 100# I come up with 103 cu ft of foam needed to suspend the boat in water. I would need more than that to float it with the decks awash. And more than that even to have the boat floating high enough to try to repair it.

Maybe the .89 should be 1.11 as a minimum.


I, of course, agree with Baldwin on everything he says.
Open top bulkheads like the one for the head will not float the boat if water goes over them. If that incident where he was holed by a fishingboat had been below the waterline, we might be reading another story.