Instructions/FAQ | Rules & Etiquette | Clear Cookies View Thread | Post Response | Return to Index | Read Prev Msg | Read Next Msg | Bellows... Posted By: Tom H. Date: 10/16/06 4:34p.m. Report: outside forum guidelines In Response To: Some kind of rubber collar around the oudrive. (Doug C.) I've got a command bridge bayliner with outdrive. The bellows is indeed a rubber bellows looking thing that surrounds the outdrive, and is located between the outdrive and the transom. It is flexible and allows the outdrive to be turned from side to side while keeping sea water out of the boat. When mine failed, I was in Martini cove and it only cracked a bit. The boat filled with sea water at a rate that allowed my bilge pump to keep up with the flow. If it would have cracked a bit more or if it had failed all together, the boat would have become a reef.

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PLEASE HELP - 3 Missing Fisherman in Northern Sea of Cortez -- Erik -- 10/13/06 8:38p.m.

Found Alive By The Mexican Navy This Morning! -- Erik -- 10/14/06 10:09a.m.

Lost -- Mike Laine Clipper Marine 26 San Felipe -- 10/15/06 10:04a.m.

some details -- Erik -- 10/15/06 10:32a.m.

Found -- Mike Laine Clipper Marine 26 San Felipe -- 10/15/06 5:20p.m.

Favorable Tide Chart -- Mike Laine Clipper Marine 26 San Felipe -- 10/16/06 4:49p.m.

RE: The bellows failed and the boat sank. -- elpolvo -- 10/16/06 12:12a.m.

I'm not the only one.... -- Jim Triton 94 - KD7YLL -- 10/16/06 5:42a.m.

Sounds like premature deflation of the inflated to me. -- Hook -- 10/16/06 7:14a.m.

Some kind of rubber collar around the oudrive. -- Doug C. -- 10/16/06 9:39a.m.

shaft log -- Johnny of STORK -- 10/16/06 4:06p.m.

shaft log -- elpolvo -- 10/21/06 2:54a.m.

 Bellows...  -- Tom H. -- 10/16/06 4:34p.m.

Very scary stuff -- JZ -- 10/17/06 4:39a.m.

bilge pump -- elpolvo -- 10/21/06 2:58a.m.

leaks -- Johnny of STORK -- 10/21/06 4:23a.m.

leaks -- elpolvo -- 10/24/06 11:52p.m.

 

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