Quick drainage question...
 

I was flushing out 5 years worth of mouse nests, leaves, etc from the hull today and noticed water in the forward most well - about 2.5 gallons worth. I have included a picture with the area in question circled.

Is there supposed to be drain hole in this area that leads to the master drain? What is this area called?

Thanks in advance!

That drains under the liner, straight to the bilge. Probably a kids life jacket or couple rolls of toilet paper in a plastic ziplock bag shoved down in there keeping it from draining. You might get lucky and find 100 dollar bills and a stainless .38 spl. I call it the forward bilge.

That is the anchor locker. Just astern of that is the potty locker.

You need to remove the aluminum threshold from the folding door so you can look thru the gap and find treasure...

If there is lots of treasure, you might consider putting a round access plate in the aft bulkhead of the potty locker.

Looks like you have an I/o with the fuel tank just aft of the door. The fuel tank has a 1" pvc pipe passing under the foamed-in tank, blocked up with 30 years of crap.


When you get that done, go out to 1000 ft and catch a swordfish on that V20 and post pix...:sly:

If you have a wet vac you can slide the vac hose down into all those tight spots and suck up all kinds of nasty stuff. I filled my shop vac up a few time sucking mice bedding and crap out of the bilge. I put the boat in the water and got everything swishing around and found even more mice crap when I got it back home on the trailer.

Funny Skunk mentioned Swordfish. The commercial guys are still leaving New Bedford for the gulf stream. Seems kind of late in the season.

oh also take the rod boxes out of the gunnels and unblock the bilge on the outside of the stringers...you need some long arms.

Thanks for that suggestion... never would have checked!!

Thanks for the names and terms. You're dead on about my boat - I/O and tank is just aft of the door.

I was aware of the 1 inch pipe, but I thought everything drained into that. Are you telling me that the anchor locker doesn't drain into the pipe?

Yes, it does, and that's the choke point. You can get a look at the front of it thru the gap under the threshold.

The "bilge" is technically the space between the stringers, deck and hull. There is no "bilge" space in the fuel tank compartment, only a pipe running thru. That's important to know because it means the fuel tank compartment DOES NOT DRAIN. You must seal the hatch.

The "outside bilge" space, under the deck outside of the stringers, gets water from gunnel rodholders and various leak points. There are no drains to the center "bilge" thru the stringers except at the transom.. The water has to drain aft to get out. You need to clear the drain holes in the cross frames.


You will probably find large chunks of the deck bonding resin that have broken off over the years.... and screws, hooks, weights, and crabs....


Oh, newer V20s (late '80s???)had foam under the deck outside of the stringers...

Oh wow, I thought everything in the cuddy drained into the pipe. Wrong huh? Does the pipe go straight to the lower drain on bottom, dead center?

THANKS for the info.. cleared a lot up in my mind as to how it drains! I'm certainly going to want to make sure all the drain holes are clean... I'm going to try to locate a spec drawing so I know where they all are.