V21 boat - where do the rod holders drain ?

[bgreene]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

Greenie... look up my post where I showed my boat with the deck off. My floor was soft, so I removed it to strengthen it.. I redid all the wood on the underside and then glassed it to seal it from getting wet like that again. But when I had the cap off, I found that all the foam was soaked... I literally filled several garbage cans with completely saturated foam... to answer your question, no, the water does NOT drain anywhere that I could find. Yes, there were some very small holes between the compartments, but with the foam in the way of them most of the water just stays trapped in the compartments. That saturated foam added LOTS of pounds of weight, to say nothing of the stink from sitting there. I had to carve it all out and then refoam everything. What a pain. .,... But now my deck is strong, and my boat is several hundred pounds lighter. And when I had the cap off I took the opportunity to reinforce the transom where the bracket is... there's a gap of about 3/4 of an inch where the bracket comes through, and I filled that with putty and then glassed across that to the stringer on both sides.

Use Reelapeelin's solution to fix the problem or do like I did and just use a solid pipe cap on the bottom to prevent any water from getting into the boat in the first place. (You get them from home despot in the plumbing section).

Reel, that's one hell of a great solution to the problem. I was thinking of going with these units from eBay, http://www.ebay.com/itm/PERKO-SPD-2-...#ht_3149wt_908 but after seeing your fix I may just go that way instead.

Can't find your post - any clues ? Thanks

[Destroyer]

Originally Posted by bgreene

Can't find your post - any clues ? Thanks

http://www.wellcraftv20.com/communit...stroyer&page=2

The pics are not the greatest, but at least they show you the foam and the layout. Oh, and rereading the post I remember I drilled holes between the compartments..originally there are none, which is why the water just lays there. So it's curcial to keep water from getting in there in the first place. I'll never understand WHY or WHAT Wellcraft was thinking to build compartments like that, open on the top, and then put rod holders in that drain right into those compartments... I mean...wtf?

[bgreene]

Originally Posted by Destroyer

http://www.wellcraftv20.com/communit...stroyer&page=2

The pics are not the greatest, but at least they show you the foam and the layout. Oh, and rereading the post I remember I drilled holes between the compartments..originally there are none, which is why the water just lays there. So it's curcial to keep water from getting in there in the first place. I'll never understand WHY or WHAT Wellcraft was thinking to build compartments like that, open on the top, and then put rod holders in that drain right into those compartments... I mean...wtf?

Maybe Wellcraft was building these to have a " shelf life " of approx X # of years.....
Having the rod holders drain right into those sections seems too obvious to be a simple mistake. Just tubing to the bilge would have been appropriate.

[reelapeelin]

Originally Posted by bgreene

Maybe Wellcraft was building these to have a " shelf life " of approx X # of years.....
Having the rod holders drain right into those sections seems too obvious to be a simple mistake. Just tubing to the bilge would have been appropriate.

Well what we gotta remember is our beloved V20s were not built or meant to be top-tier boats...not that the top tier boats of the time were perfect in every way, but some did address issues like rod holder drains...they left things undone so we could take care of them later and have a forum to talk about it...some foresight, huh?..

[franko]

I used the equipped Attwood drain nipples and routed hose to starboard and port stern coolers which drain to transom well. my bilge stays dry