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I brought the boat to a marine shop for unrelated reason. Mentioned it to the guy. He concurs with what everyone said in the post. He used a vise to grab it and hammered (pulled) the marker out with a lot of force. Now it drains well.
The boat is only used on a small lake. Will keep what you said in mind, surely not going to venture out now :).
That sounds like a reasonable guess though you wouldn't think there's no drain at all, that sounds kind of dumb even for a novice like me!!
Thank you, appreciate the info (which I forgot to say earlier). I failed to mention that this is an outboard so I can see everything is above the floor at the rear end of the boat, i.e. unlikely something important behind the vertical wall. I opened the littlie access bay just under the...
So it's safe for me to try pulling it out as hard I can, right? I am just not sure if this is some build in lever to turn on/off the drain cause it is almost impossible to access it from either side of the drain. if it is just some hack previous owner try to do, then I can pull it out and see...
uh-oh. This is my first boat that I got last summer so I don't have much experience. Does the floor supposed to be coated on the under side? I jumped on the floor over the boat when I bot it, no soft spot. Though the end is where the battery and oil tank is so I can't jump on. Hopefully...
I have a 1989 Sunbird SPL 150 bowrider. The ski compartment always have standing water (about a couple inches deep), I think the rain water from the whole boat just drain into it. so I drained it with a shop vac, and take some pictures. There's a yellow stick that goes to the bottom of the...
