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Originally Posted by halfgassed (Post 3692329)

a big problem on mine i've found so far was the bow cleat and bow lights but yet I still getting water under my step, even after I sealed them up.

I'm not shure YET if this has fixed my problem but I noticed the fairing was siliconed on the bottom and not from the top, so any water that came in from the backside of the fairing/ or any screw holes was staying trapped between the deck and the fairing and once it go high enough it would dump into the cabin/under the step through the screw holes. I pulled my entire race fairing off this winter and it was nasty between the fairing/deck. and all the stains/scum line ended barely above the screw holes that hold the fairing on.

I just scraped all the silicone off completely and ONLY siliconed around the screw holes between the deck/ fairing that way any water that does get in can atleast escape.

no fridge or toilet that could be leaking or condensating? I bet its your hand rails, go underneath and tighten the bolts down and silicon over them, I then wen around them on the outside and made a nice clean bead where you cant see them. I would also ensure you have a good cover.

Any water in the bilge travels forward and doesnt drain back. These are the small steps and you can see the angle. I would get it dry and then plug off both sides of these tubes

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Originally Posted by Dkahnjob (Post 3691351)

Take a look at my post #8 on this thread. The reason you don't see any water draining from the cockpit area when you wash it down is because the water from those drains goes outboard of the stringers and then is running forward rather than back. This ends up under the step or forward below the anchor locker.

+1 what he sad

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Originally Posted by Pokher Ace (Post 3692401)

Any water in the bilge travels forward and doesnt drain back. These are the small steps and you can see the angle. I would get it dry and then plug off both sides of these tubes

That is a great pic of the floor. It almost looks like a long tube down the center too??

I gutted mine and doing a full coosa/ prisma preforms stringer system. Im real close to starting a thread on the resto. But there is 2 tubes on either side of the middle stringer, and this is where the gas tanks sit underneath the cockpit floor. Those tubes arent even schedule 40 pipe, there real thin wall stuff. I say to def block off both ends and then let it 'air out' everytime you wash it, because they do leak from bow rails, and front anchor locker. Just not near as much as what comes from the bilge.

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Originally Posted by Pokher Ace (Post 3692401)

Any water in the bilge travels forward and doesnt drain back. These are the small steps and you can see the angle. I would get it dry and then plug off both sides of these tubes

This is the advice we took, plugging the bilge tube holes that run under the floor to the cabin, since then cabin's stayed dry

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Originally Posted by Pokher Ace (Post 3692401)

Any water in the bilge travels forward and doesnt drain back. These are the small steps and you can see the angle. I would get it dry and then plug off both sides of these tubes

This wouldnt be the same problem in a non-stepped hull would it?

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Originally Posted by Pokher Ace (Post 3692401)

Any water in the bilge travels forward and doesnt drain back. These are the small steps and you can see the angle. I would get it dry and then plug off both sides of these tubes

post some more pics ! . . .

really interested to see how the original stringers looked

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Originally Posted by 2KOOLPerformance (Post 3693734)

This is the advice we took, plugging the bilge tube holes that run under the floor to the cabin, since then cabin's stayed dry

Which holes?? The ones in the cockpit at the rear by the bench? Did you just reroute those to the engine compartment for drainage?