New to boating, Should i be worried?

msbhammer said:
Any chance of you being in Delaware. I'll take a look at it or maybe another member is close to ya.
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StBalor's profile says Maryland,
so depending on where, I am sure we have somebody close.
 
tsubaki said:
Any help?
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Tsubaki,

That's exactly what my splashwell looks like. Water does come in over the top at times but quickly drains out thru the middle hole. The only time I was worried was when the boat was sitting so low in the water when the bottom of hull was acting like a ballast full of water.
 
I'm willing to bet he's got an old boot hole dead center in the bottom of the backsplash.
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I agree, there must be 2 boot holes - one where his cables and wires currently come through and an old one either dead center as Tsub said or to one side on the flat part.

Like the others said, seal it up, get all the water outta your hull and life should be good again :D
 
I think it was me that plagarized the "wick" idea. Unfortunately the link no longer works (see below). It was designed to remove water trapped between stringers that you could not access. Basically, drill a hole at the lowest point, insert cotton tee's long enough to reach through the drain plug hole and hang lower than the point being drained, then glass the hole (of course).

www.Helendalepublishing.com/drainwater.htm
 
hahaha, Ok, Tsubaki, I recind my early claim. I like the tampon one better, although wouldn't a tampon be better as a drain PLUG, rather than a drain WICK?????

BTW, sorry the
 
tsubaki said:
Any help?
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The hole in your splash well on left side of picture. I have 1 dead center of my splash well. Also had 1 on the right side but former owner sealed with silicone.
i also do not have a drain hole in bottom center of splash well as you do. When i get home, i just sponge it out.
 
Don't use your boat until you get this sorted out STB!!!!


You could sink. :o

There needs to be a drain in the splashwell to let water back out, and you need to stop the flow of water into the bilge.
 
Hmm, so that center hole goes directly to the bilge area, and you dont have two seperate holes that drain out through teh transom. ???

Drill out out and install two splashwell drains with scupper flaps. The drain hole in the center...I guess you have no choice, but to let it drain into the bilge area. ???
 
You should have the same transom setup.
Post the hull ID number of your boat, it may not be a "75 Steplift.
Till Kodak can help us with this.
 
StBalor,

Let me know if you'd like for me to stop by with my camera to snap a few pics for the boys and to also get a firsthand look at the situation.

Steve
 
Yall talking about water in the bilge, I do like somebody said about oil. I drop my shop vac hose in and it sucks it all right out. Works good and fast.
 
Well i realized something yesterday. Maybe it was partially my fault the water was coming over the boat. The 1st 2 times i went out there were 4 of us. i figure weighing about 1000 lbs. Water was choppy and all 4 of us fishing off of back of the boat.
Went out on the potomac river yesterday with 3 of us water was calm and we spread out on the boat a bit. Not a drop of water came ove the transom area. in fact no water came in boat at all.
Was this a rookie mistake by all 4 of us fishing from back of boat that caused the water to come over the transom?
 
1000 pounds off the back, yep I say thats why you got the water!!

"Rookie" yep I think that sums it up ;)
 
StBalor said:
Well i realized something yesterday. Maybe it was partially my fault the water was coming over the boat. The 1st 2 times i went out there were 4 of us. i figure weighing about 1000 lbs. Water was choppy and all 4 of us fishing off of back of the boat.
Went out on the potomac river yesterday with 3 of us water was calm and we spread out on the boat a bit. Not a drop of water came ove the transom area. in fact no water came in boat at all.
Was this a rookie mistake by all 4 of us fishing from back of boat that caused the water to come over the transom?
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The 1000# in the back of the boat was causing water to come into the splashwell, and that is ok as long as the splashwell is working like it should.  You should always try to distribute the "load" in your boat evenly, but your boat should be able to handle 4 people standing in the back, even if they are "healthy".

You need to fix it up so that water that gets in the splashwell can drain back out and not drain into the bilge.
 
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