For the last 6 months I've been noticing a sloshing sound when I rock my boat sitting on the trailer.
I drilled a hole and installed a porthole to try and get the water out. But I had to gouge out foam and when I got to the water, it was only about half inch deep.
This boat has a weird design. It has compartments, or honeycomb design under the floor but they were designed to never take on water and were foam filled. So they were never designed to drain the water out and the water is trapped since it came in from the floor above.
I took it to a guy who works on lots of boats here and he has to cut out the whole floor and remove the foam. Then drill holes through the back of each of about 10 compartments so the water will continually drain out to the bilge.
Why didn't the Guatemalans think of this when they designed it? Water gets in but can't get out....gfrrrrrr. Anyway, it's going to cost me US$1750.00 for the work. Lucky we just put that boat together for our friends and they can take us out this week. :thumbsup2:
I'll try and post pics of this surgery as it progresses. Beware of buying a Pesquero Panga from Guatemala. It looks just like the Mexican Imemsa but the under floor design was done by morons.