how did they deal with water that had gushed into the shipp
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As Mary took control of the wheel, the narrator made his way towards the hatch. Larry and Herb were pumping out water frantically. He saw broken timbers hanging, the starboard side bulged inwards; clothes, crockery, charts, tin and toys sloshed about in deep water. So he struggled into the children’s cabin, found a hammer, screws and canvas, and laboured back on deck. He managed to stretch the canvas and secure waterproof hatch covers across the gaping holes.
Some water continued to stream below, but most of it was now being deflected over the side. The problems cropped up when the hand pumps started to block up with the fragments floating around the cabins and the electric pump short-circuited. The water level rose ominously. On the deck he missed the two spare hand pumps, forestay sail, jib, dinghies and the main anchor, which were pitched overboard. He found another electric pump and connected it to an out-pipe, and this worked.
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