Water in the boat

LI-Jack

LI-Jack

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. A couple of years ago, I replaced my 2 stoke 9.9 with a 4 stroke 15 and felt the boat was sluggish. I thought it was the extra weight (on both me and the engine change) or because it was a 4 stroke.


All season and even last season, I just couldn't get the boat to plane correctly. I finally got to take a ride out in my duck boat since things thawed and the winds died down to test things one more time

The performance was really bothering me. I cant see my transom from the inside- because of plywood holding flotation compartment. So curiosity got the best of me and I wanted to peak in there. I drilled a small hole. That's when the ah ha moment happened. Out came about a 5 gallons of water. I used a sawzall to see more of the problem, and the flotation foam is saturated.

The boat is all fiberglass except for the transom board, which I have yet to inspect because of the foam being in the way. It's an old aero marine 2 man boat I bought used about 11 years ago, and it is a 2 piece molded top and bottom fiberglass boat. I think the water came in between the seam on the outside of the transom.

Who knows how long the water has been in there. I'm now planing to chop the flotation out, and see how the transom looks and probably reinforce it while I have it opened up.

I'll try and take some pictures as I more along, wish I would have taken the picture of the stream of water shooting out the pilot hole.

Any one have a good way to remove the foam, it's about 18 inches x 42 inches x 15 inches ?
 
I think it was on this site some one used a high press. spray washer. A search should come up with that thread& how he did it.
Dennis
 
Jack: unless you can digiit out by hand, the pressure washer is the best idea A few years ago we made some bazar parts(fiberglass) for a boat we were building . Had the mold Cnc cut out of low density foam , sprayed lots of gelcoat inside, then the glass. A couple days after it cured we blew the foam away with a pressure washer. We dubbed this our lost foam method.The boat summers on LI called Double Down big space age looking sportfish. By the in my first life I was a clammer on the great south bay Worked mostly out off patchogue Its been thirty years still cant get the bay out of my mind. check my old posts on garveys it will tell you how bad I still have it!
 
Thanks guys I google searched for but didn't search the forum... dooooh!


Rich,
I use to clam through college summer days, extra money for beer and dates. My buddy and I shared his garvey and would spend about 6 hrs a day scratch raking on the flats. I loved those days, hard work always paid off. Wish I had a garvey these days, now most of the baymen are in carolina skiffs.
My wife (at the time my girl friend) is a city girl and I took her out on my boat, I got to a spot and ancored. I grabbed the scratch rake and jumped over the side. She freaked out, thinking it was deep water. She had no clue I was preparing dinner tonight, fried clam bellys and linguini and red clam sauce! She was impressed.

-Jack
 
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