How to eliminate water getting through the bow slider ?

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Originally Posted by bgreene

May be worth seeing - thanks for offering to show pics.

Looking for solution here. Improvement's a good thing but DRY solution is the goal to ELIMINATE water intrusion under these circumstances:

1. Rain
2. Wave related spray action related to rough water etc.

Anything short of this to me is wet vs dry.

Sort of like sleeping in a " sometimes wet bed." No thanks.

If you remove the slider you would see the raised guides on left and right connected in the middle to form a big H shape...it would not be impossible for water to fill the front of the H and overspill into the cuddy....also the guides themselves are bound to carch and channel water toward and then under the center glass...to avoid these sources RAINING, don't raise the bow too much on the trailer....there's a particular level where water runs aft in the cockpit and forward ahead of the windshield...it should find this level naturally when floating on the water and you can find it on the trailer as well...

When running w/the bow up, given enough water, it will find its way into the boat through either of the two routes above...I considered installing drains in the front of the H to give that water another place to go...hoses would run left and right and exhaust under the rub rail just ahead of the windshield...what comes thru the side channels(guides) and under the center glass is gonna be tougher..our at least I never thought of a good way to divert that water...Keep in mind all water that falls onto the slider when closed will run into those channels whether it's rain or spray...