No rain -- water only comes through the 1/4" hole
2007-09-15 09:11:41 · 4 answers · asked by jimdotedu 5 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Boats & Boating
I mean this more as a math question than a practical one
2007-09-15 14:05:06 · update #1
Let's make the boat out of aluminum so you can calculate the size
2007-09-15 14:07:01 · update #2
Not trying to have a "gotcha" here -- water is 10' deep, boat is not supported in any way
2007-09-15 14:31:34 · update #3
I'm not sure. The boat will sink long before the water gets to the gun whale as stated above. I'm not sure how much pressure the water would come in the 1/4 inch hole at. It depends on the draft. The volume of water would be roughly the volume of the hull to about the waterline or so I think. At that point the density of the hull will start to equal that of the water. It depends on the shape of the hull. 5,000 lbs. equals about 80 cubic feet of fresh water and about 78 cubic feet in salt water. A cubic foot is about 7 3/4 gallons of water roughly. I know it looks like a 5 gallon bucket would hold a cubic foot but it doesn't. So roughly 620 gallons of fresh water would sink the boat. Now all you have to figure out is how fast is the water coming in. That is a tough calculation to make because it isn't going to be a constant rate. It also depends on the shape of the hull. The reason is because the closer to the water line the bottom is, in other words a shallow draft boat, the lower the pressure will be. the deeper in the water the bottom is the more the pressure will be. The higher the pressure the higher the volume. Also as the boat gets lower in the water as it sinks the faster the water will come in. I didn't get past basic algebra in high school so the math it would take to figure that out is probably beyond my knowledge.
2007-09-23 07:14:01 · answer #1 · answered by rick b 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When it reaches the top of the gunnel's> plug the hole with something>Put a pump in it>That's not a nautical way to think>
2007-09-15 13:32:46 · answer #2 · answered by 45 auto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the water is less than 3' it will not sink.
2007-09-15 14:13:55 · answer #3 · answered by gejandsons 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
about 4 hours
but why you want to sink it
2007-09-22 23:48:41 · answer #4 · answered by storm 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋