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CGood
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Initially Posted - 04/02/2004 : 16:30:51

I can never get all the water to drain out of my cockpit floor. Based on the transom hole, slope, etc., there always some that remains. It then turns black from stuff growing in it and keeps me from ever having a clean cockpit. I may be wrong, but I don't think the boat at rest pitches too far foward, unless that floor is that exect. I whould have thought they would have sloped it at least a little aft.

Any suggestions?

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Raskal
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Response Posted - 04/02/2004 : 17:04:00

CGood, It sounds like your cockpit drains are the later type which go out the back of the transom through horizontal tubes rather than down through corner floor drains (the original type). When they introduced the horizontal tubes they didn't make any changes to the cockpit mold and you therefore have a rectangular dish in front of the tubes rather than a slope--guaranteed to always hold some water.

My PO tried to bridge that dish with something he screwed in but it apparently didn't work and got removed and patched. I was prepared to make a slope with epoxy but didn't get started because I'm selling the boat. I think there are a number of ways to get rid of the "dish", but the epoxy work is not for the faint of heart...

Rich Kokoska

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dlucier
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Response Posted - 04/03/2004 : 09:02:38

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by CGood
 I can never get all the water to drain out of my cockpit floor...I may be wrong, but I don't think the boat at rest pitches too far foward, unless that floor is that exect. I would have thought they would have sloped it at least a little aft.

Any suggestions?
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What type of keel to you have?

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OJ
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Response Posted - 04/03/2004 : 10:39:55

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Raskal
 When they introduced the horizontal tubes they didn't make any changes to the cockpit mold and you therefore have a rectangular dish in front of the tubes rather than a slope--guaranteed to always hold some water.

Bummer, I thought the "rectangular dish" was intentional to act as a trap. Besides being a place for dirt to collect, it also contributes to the soft cockpit sole problem when this standing water migrates around the tubes.
If I were to level off the dish I'd grind off the gel coat, glass in the trough and apply new gel coat - but, it's a tricky area to work in.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote">

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Scotd
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Response Posted - 04/03/2004 : 18:08:58

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by CGood
 I can never get all the water to drain out of my cockpit floor. Based on the transom hole, slope, etc., there always some that remains. It then turns black from stuff growing in it and keeps me from ever having a clean cockpit. I may be wrong, but I don't think the boat at rest pitches too far foward, unless that floor is that exect. I whould have thought they would have sloped it at least a little aft.

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Mine is the same way

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