Originally Posted by
NateHaskovec
I do know why it ended up there. Inspection covers for testing were left off of the tanks.
Whenever you allow that much water to be forced into a boat that fast, a failure in the system will comprimise your boat. The picture is easy to find. Google Centurian Ramfill. Click images.
I will stick with my opinion. When a boat testing "ramfill" ballast system designed to flood a boat with 1000# in "seconds" sinks during testing, it concerns me.
If one of my ballast pumps or hoses fail, I am battling a one inch hole.
If "ramfill" ruptures or fails, you are fighting two three inch holes which (when combined) are twenty times the size (area wise).
Sure, you can argue the system wil never fail, but in the case of the test boat, it took less than a minute to sink.