New answers tagged sailing
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As noted in the comments above, the order of things is somewhat dependent on the size of the boat, the number of crew, crew experience, and the size of the leak. If the boat's been holed your first priority is to get something to plug the hole. Whoever's doing that will be shouting their head off to get attention for help. The skipper will then be able to ...
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The correct order comes naturally. Alerting the crew does not take much time and will be required for operating a manual pump, searching a leak and preparing other measures such as evacuation. Therefore this has to come first.
Activating the pump does not hurt if it is automatic. For a manual pump I would make this dependent on the amount of water flowing in....
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