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Scuppers
What are Scuppers?
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27/Jul/2005, 8:49 am
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Re: Scuppers
The traditional meaning from William Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine...
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SCUPPERS, (dalots, Fr. schoepen, Dutch, to draw off) certain channels cut through the water-ways and sides of a ship at proper distances, and lined with plated lead, in order to carry the water off from the deck into the sea.
The scuppers of the lower deck of a ship of war are usually furnished with a leathern pipe, called the scupper-hoase, which hangs downward from the mouth or opening of the scupper. The intent of this is to prevent the water from entering when the ship inclines under a weight of sail.
The modern interpretation...
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SCUPPERS - Drain holes on deck, in the toe rail, or in bulwarks or (with drain pipes) in the deck itself.
In a sit-on-top they are the holes in the deck that are open to the water. The tubes that make the holes are known as 'scupper posts'.
Scupper holes are in a sit-on-top kayak for 2 main reasons..
1).. To let any water that gets into the ****pit drain out but in reality they also let water in.
2).. To provide structural rigidity to the deck by providing support. Any load on the deck is supported by the scupper posts which are in turn supported by the hull which is supported by the pressure of the water being displaced.
'Scuppers' was also the name of a sea dog in a storybook I had as a kid 
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Phil.
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