Re: 1982 Sylvan Bassboat project
I actually agree Wood, and am planning to add some crown to the FireFlite deck for this reason. It had a 'molded' in channel along both sides of the deck to channel the water back to the stern, but only had a single centered deck drain plug. But, if the deck crowns high in the middle of the deck, making the center line high, why only 1 drain plug centered on the transom? Wouldn't that encourage pooling in the rear corners of the deck against the transom? Esp when not underway, on the trailer, or tied up at the dock/slip?
If I had to choose between general pooling on a flat deck, & a centered single drain and a crowned deck, directing the water outward & along the outside edge of the deck along the hull, w/ a high centered single drain and pooling in the corner at the transom, I'd choose flat deck, but that may not be correct...... I'd probably store the boat on the trailer tongue high.
But, yeah, I should have said I was planning to add crown and dual drain plugs to prevent the pooling.
Are these high centerline decks supposed to have the crown reduced and run flat right along the transom? Or even reverse the crown to be low at the center of the transom? And why not make the centerline LOW, w/ a single drain, then this is all irrelevent...... Which was my original thought for the FireFlite, but the water channel is actually the inside of the other most chine, and I don't want to fill that w/ PB... Perhaps it was for directional flow of water while not underway, since under way all the water that can will make it's way to the stern naturally....
If anybody thinks its a really big mistake to go flat, hopefully they'll chime in before any stringers are cut for a flat deck......But Wood hasn't lead anyone astray yet, that does tells us something....
