1986 Sea Ray Seville Plumbing Question

[jeromeb]

Hi,

This is my first boat and it was bought as a project. I haven't been able to get any schematics for it yet. It is a 21' Cruiser with aft cabin. There is a drainage inlet on the step going into the cabin, just outside of the door. It, in turn drains inside the cabin under the floor. There doesn't appear to be any drainage for water to run to the stern. Instead, there is a bilge pump. As I said, the boat is a project and there are no batteries hooked up. I'm in the process of replacing the engine, (locked up). The boat is old, I don't know how many owners or what changes have been made, if any. It just seems silly to have that inlet lead to the cabin rather than to the stern where the main pump would discharge it. All of the engine/electrics have been disconnected so I don't know where the cabin pump discharges to.

Is the setup correct or do I have some sort of Rube Goldberg on my hands? An inquiring mind would love to know. Thanks for any input.

Jerome Jefferson

 

[45Auto]

Re: 1986 Sea Ray Seville Plumbing Question

It's probably plumbed correctly. Lots of stuff drains to the forward bilge pump (shower, AC condensation tray, etc). There's a solid bulkhead between the engine and the cabin. If the step is forward of that bulkhead Sea Ray would have drained it to the forward pump rather than cutting the bulkhead.

 

[jeromeb]

Re: 1986 Sea Ray Seville Plumbing Question

Thanks 45Auto. It's starting to make a little more sense to me now. Fortunately, the boat was covered before I got it. Guess I'll manually pump it out until I get the new engine in and circuits connected.
Jerome

 

[rbh]

Re: 1986 Sea Ray Seville Plumbing Question

Not totally sure, "but" that step drain could be a scupper and routed to drain through the hull, double check it.

 

[jeromeb]

Re: 1986 Sea Ray Seville Plumbing Question

Not totally sure, "but" that step drain could be a scupper and routed to drain through the hull, double check it.

10-4, I'll do that

 

[badkins50]

Re: 1986 Sea Ray Seville Plumbing Question

On my 1986 sea ray 210cc (pretty similar to your seville), mine is set up like 45auto said. there is a separate compartment under the step that everything from the cuddy/forward drains to and it has its own bilge pump that pumps out the starboard side and totally separate from the engine bilge pump and drain. On mine it has to be done this way from the factory and from the looks of it, it looks like this step bilge compartment is lower than the engine bilge compartment so the water would never make it's way to the engine.