Stringers bellow deck

steplift20 · #1 07-24-2018, 07:33 PM

Who knows the thread that was posted showing the stringers bellow the deck exposed.the reason is I would like to see if there is anyway water can be trapped in under the deck I remember seeing it but can't remember who posted it thanks

Pipe_Dream · #2 07-25-2018, 07:03 AM

Going to have to use the search feature to find that, I'm thinking. I remember some pics in the gallery, too. Here:

http://www.wellcraftv20.com/gallery/v20_vic?page=1

also here

http://www.wellcraftv20.com/communit...ringers&page=7

with links to lost pics on the last page of the thread.

steplift20 · #3 07-25-2018, 10:33 AM

Pipe dream thanks for the web site,the reason I'm asking is it looks like my boat is listing to starboard after I hit a whale last week the tank is secure and the surveyer said she might be holding water on starboard side ,so I wanted to see if that's possible I have to remove the rod boxes and visually take a look even though I don't think that to be the case, I remember seeing the stringers on someone else's boat on this site after they remove the deck and just wanted to look for myself, thanks for the site I do see where it could pool up

SkunkBoat · #4 07-25-2018, 01:07 PM

If you really got tilted far, the water in your fwd bilge area may have spilled over the stringer to the outer side.

Take the rod boxes out and look. If there is no water there now it may have slowly drained back...
If your boat doesn't have foam get your arm in there and you'll find crap blocking the holes that allow water to flow back to the stern. At the transom it flows thru the stringer to the bilge. That gets blocked too.
Do it on both sides...
After 1986(?) they put foam in there. Not sure how they dealt with water after that...

There is a pipe thru your fuel tank space. It gets blocked at the front. The only way to clear it is cutting the fishbox floor where the drain is to get your hand at the front of the pipe.

Pipe_Dream · #5 07-26-2018, 08:45 AM

How do your thru-hulls look?

I used to have one on the port side connected to a drain in the storage box under the passenger seat -- port side. Years ago I began to notice a list to port that gradually got worse. It turned out that a connection had come loose and we were taking on water there so I had it repaired.

When Mathew hit and the boat began to take water that storage box came loose (from wave action, I guess?) and tore that connection. I believe that it contributed heavily to the sinking. I never utilized that box for anything needing a drain anyway, so we eliminated it.

bradford · #6 07-26-2018, 03:21 PM

Running some type of snake, (old vhf antennae) through the drain plug and then feeding it through the pvc pipe under the tank may clear a blockage. Shooting some compressed air through there might blow it out as well.