floatation in boats

[onemorecast56]

just wondering out loud,but in todays sue happy world if you remove some flotation foam in someones boat and it later sinks and someone drowned there is probably a lawer that would love that fight,and also,if you remove the foam and the boat sinks,even if not to the bottom i would think the insurance co would love that excuse so as they don't have to pay any money.i think it may be better to replace it than leave it out,unless it's your personal boat.

we`ll you have a good point, what I`ll do is have the customer sigh off on the removal of the foam. I`ll have to talk to him, if he wants some back in I`ll do that. But it`ll just get waterlogged again. This is bonefish`s boat on here. The boat wont sink with what I still have to put back. But thanks for the reply, it gives me something to think about. But I`ll talk to Roy and see how he wants it done... BUT THANKS

[CTFSHWHISKER]

we`ll you have a good point, what I`ll do is have the customer sigh off on the removal of the foam. I`ll have to talk to him, if he wants some back in I`ll do that. But it`ll just get waterlogged again. This is bonefish`s boat on here. The boat wont sink with what I still have to put back. But thanks for the reply, it gives me something to think about. But I`ll talk to Roy and see how he wants it done... BUT THANKS

yeah it will,and like you said probably won't do it's job,hell my dad has an 89 vision that the livewell line broke on him and guy at t-ville,when he noticed what happened by the time he got close to shore he said it was going down motor first and would have likey stopped on bottom,he got close enough it bottomed out shallow enough he whittled a plug and put in the line and set til it pumped out,so i wonder what the foam really does in some cases.
and it couldn't be water logged in his boat..i was just thinking of the liability standpoint,when i had my mower shop that was some of the training stuff they told us,any kind of small modification to the machine from factory specs can make you liable even if not directly related to the accident.