Great work on the boat. She looks absolutely gorgeous. Looks like you could solve the hatch leaking problem by adding a drain channel leading to the bilge. Best of luck. 👍👍👍
@LightningCapitalLiving I have to lock my hatches down, or they will leak. Water lifts em just enough to get in the bilge when it rains a lot if it's not locked.
Both my stern and bow hatches take in water even though I have drains too. That's with double drains on each hatch. BUT! Only when power washing is when I get water in the compartments. Good luck on the fix. Its a great idea to hole saw and evac water in there.
Yeah it hasn’t rained hard enough to cause water in there. Just from me soaking it during a wash. I think thicker gaskets and pressure lock latches will solve it
What I would have done for the rigging tube is raise it up about 3 more inches and put a pvc elbow on the top and angle it in a detection where wanted can’t get inside.
I’m 6’3 270lbs so I prob won’t do a poling platform until my son is older. Trolling motor going on for sure. The gas tank is aluminum and is in the front hatch, didn’t follow the plans there.
I vacuumed some out of the rigging tube, but I did see some on top of the foam around the edges. I’m going to cut open a hole and see how the foam looks and go from there. Easy fix if it’s not too wet.
Theoretically the foam should be taking up all the space under that floor right, so it shouldn't be any room for water to be sloshing around in there? Great looking boat though!
@@bigapumpkin that’s what I am hoping. Should be maybe 3/4” air gap at the most on top of the foam. Once I open it up and dry it out I’ll have a better idea. The foam is porous though, so who knows. Dumb mistake on my part not sealing that little gap around the rigging tube.
I thought about that too. A simple 3/4” hole on each side of the bulkheads all the way back down the center of the hull would solve that problem. I guess they were designed to be somewhat bare bones and fully sealed at the floor.
Great work on the boat. She looks absolutely gorgeous.
Looks like you could solve the hatch leaking problem by adding a drain channel leading to the bilge.
Best of luck. 👍👍👍
I’ve got some tubing that runs from the hatch drains to the bilge. I think the issue was my gaskets were not think ebough
@LightningCapitalLiving
I have to lock my hatches down, or they will leak. Water lifts em just enough to get in the bilge when it rains a lot if it's not locked.
@@Darth-Betta I just need to add some thicker gaskets. They lock pretty tight for me
I have the plans for this boat and recently started my build! Thanks for posting all these videos!
Enjoy! It was a fun process
Both my stern and bow hatches take in water even though I have drains too. That's with double drains on each hatch. BUT! Only when power washing is when I get water in the compartments. Good luck on the fix. Its a great idea to hole saw and evac water in there.
Yeah it hasn’t rained hard enough to cause water in there. Just from me soaking it during a wash. I think thicker gaskets and pressure lock latches will solve it
Thanks for update and honesty
Thanks for watching
Fantastic boat
Many thanks
What I would have done for the rigging tube is raise it up about 3 more inches and put a pvc elbow on the top and angle it in a detection where wanted can’t get inside.
All sealed up now so should be good to go.
Are you putting a poling platform on back and a trolling motor on bow? Is gas tank molded or alumimum? Is it in front or in console per plan?
Thnx
I’m 6’3 270lbs so I prob won’t do a poling platform until my son is older. Trolling motor going on for sure. The gas tank is aluminum and is in the front hatch, didn’t follow the plans there.
Any chance the water is just in the rigging tube? Good luck with the fix.
I vacuumed some out of the rigging tube, but I did see some on top of the foam around the edges. I’m going to cut open a hole and see how the foam looks and go from there. Easy fix if it’s not too wet.
Theoretically the foam should be taking up all the space under that floor right, so it shouldn't be any room for water to be sloshing around in there? Great looking boat though!
@@bigapumpkin that’s what I am hoping. Should be maybe 3/4” air gap at the most on top of the foam. Once I open it up and dry it out I’ll have a better idea. The foam is porous though, so who knows. Dumb mistake on my part not sealing that little gap around the rigging tube.
I still don’t understand why we don’t include limber holes and direct any water below floor to the bilge. Even if it just weeps over time.
I thought about that too. A simple 3/4” hole on each side of the bulkheads all the way back down the center of the hull would solve that problem. I guess they were designed to be somewhat bare bones and fully sealed at the floor.
What was the approximate cost to build?
$6k for the boat $7k for the motor