[bradford]

Randle I've had 4 McKees so far and what Tsubaki and Spare said is true. I did have one 14 that weighed a TON! Took 5 of us to load it on a trailer and one of the helpers was dam near a sumo wrestler. I drilled the holes like Spare mentioned and it drained water for about 18 hours or so slowing down to a small drip. It still weighed alot but was to the point where I could transfer it to another trailer by myself to sell it. I saw it on craigslist about a month or two later and the new owner said in the ad that it was water logged. Something that a previous owner had done to one of mine, a 18 Offshoreman, was drill with a hole saw between the drain plug hole and the bottom of the hull and wallow the foam out with an auger bit and install a threaded PVC fitting with a screw on cap for when you were running her. Seemed like an idea to allow water to drain from the foam when not in use. One Mckee I had came with an old Suzuki 50 on the back and it ran out well, easily 30-35 mph I suspect. Spare had a thread about his buddy in Charleston that does the marine welding who was selling his 14. Try to find it, it's the best looking 14 I've ever seen. (Besides Spare's of course;) ).

An old guy told me once that after a nuclear war the only things left would be radiation, cockroaches, and old Mckee Craft hulls.