Taking on some water???

[Destroyer]

Welcome aboard. Glad to see you finally got permissions to post, etc. It's so much easier to answer your questions here rather than on the other site.

Good that you got the bilge pump installed and the bilge cleaned. I think that's going to solve 90% of your bilge water problems.

Pics are always welcome here, and like the saying goes, are worth a thousand words.

Good looking boat.

[AcogDoc]

Thanks for the advice and warm welcome guys. As soon as I get down to the boat I’ll snap some pictures. I store it just down the street at the marina so it shouldn’t be too difficult. When trying to remove soft spots on the deck do you have to remove the entire deck? Like the top from the hull?? Or can you just remove the bad sections and replace them?? I haven’t ever done a project like that so I have no idea how hard it would be...

And once soft spots are removed.... how hard is it to paint the deck? Do you need to use gel coat? Or is it just deck paint. Thanks everyone!

[phatdaddy]

With that kicker and the baitwell. I would think the scuppers would be under water, so like RMB said check the hoses from the deck drains to the thru hulls.

On the soft deck, i replaced about a third of mine from the top, just cut out the bad and put in a new piece of ply and glassed over it to match surrounding area. I used epoxy, so i had to paint mine. Not that big of a deal, but once u paint, you will at some point have to repaint. If you go back with gelcoat, you need to use polyester resin.

[AcogDoc]

Are the scuppers the deck drains? Or are the scuppers thru hulls I’m the outside of the boat. I’m still working on figuring out what. Certain things are. Sorry about the dumb questions

[phatdaddy]

Yes, sorry. The deck drains connect to the thru hulls that let water on the deck drain overboard. On older models the drains went to the bilge and the water had to be pumped overboard. Like I said not real familiar with lay out of a dually, i m assuming you have scuppers, being a mid 80 s boat

On my cuddy, with a 25 gallon Livewell in the stern, its not uncommon to have a half inch of water around your feet while fishing

[AcogDoc]

Ok. So the deck drains if I remember correctly do in fact drain of to the sides but the more I think about the less certain I am. I’m gonna go take a look at it tomorrow or Friday depending on when my new hose and thru hulls get here. I already got some 4200 and 5200. So we shall see how it goes.

[randlemanboater]

One thing I did that helped with the water in the floor problem was when I replaced the floor drains I cut off enough of the threaded part that it I could then use the angled fitting on the bottom as the locking nut.

This made the bottom of the floor drain where the hose connected about an inch higher, thus mostly stopping water from coming in from outside in fairly calm conditions. It still came in when rocking and rolling but it improved things.