i get around a gallon, less if no tubing or swimming, I noticed my caulking under boarding ladder needs redoing so when I stop quick the backsplash gets in some.
About 8 to 12 ounces every few hours just cruising around. I need to reseal my swim ladder bolts. However, with 5 to 8 people tubing, wakeboarding, and swimming, (in and out, in and out) I will get a couple gallons or more in the same time period. As someone mentioned earlier, you can get a couple gallons just from pulling a tube from the water into the boat.
Forgot to mention the boat has a self bailing deck, so water from people, tubes, skis, etc, goes overboard and not into the bilge. I didn't realize how much this could be until reading the rest of this thread!
I have a trickle from a shift bellow leak.. this slit is maybe 1/8".. It'll fill my bilge up pretty quick depending on how wheel is turned. If you're dripping try getting it dry. My boat is getting the bellow replaced this weekend.
I had my boat 100% water tight last year, this year I have a leak somewhere that I just can NOT seem to find. Its only about 3 cups worth of water usually after 3-4 hours on the water, but it drives me nutty.
Just curious if 100% water tight is the norm. or am I just OCD?
Still driving me nuts trying to chase it down. I can see it is coming from the actual drain plug, but I can't tell if it is something on the transom or the drain plug hole itself.
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This makes sense because my motor was trimmed all the way up... but here's a dumb question where do I have a bellow on my outboard? I hope I didn't bust on of those hole in the bow or something.
If I did is it OK to fill these with marine grade silicon?
I started having about a gallon in the bilge in the engine compartment this year in about a 8 hour trip. Drove me nuts for a couple of trips. I had a very small leak in a water line where it connects from a metal elbow to a rubber hose. It was leaking down behind the fitting where I could not see it, tightened up all the clamps and dry as a bone again. My suggestion would be to try that if you have a leak you can't find on a inboard motor with water in the bilge in the engine compartment.
I get water in the bilge when out. Sometimes up to a gallon or better. -- The bow wave will force water through the anchor locker drain tube at the bow and into the locker and then leak into the cabin, run through the drains and into the bilge.
Here's another questions. Since I bought my boat I wasn't getting any water in it at all. Last weekend I had to beach it to anchor three times on soft shale and sand. now I think I have a leak. How do I go about checking where it is coming from? and what do I do if it's coming from the bow? there is a small gouge taken out of the bow that was repaired with resin or marine grade silicon and I think I may need to do it again.
I hit a shallow sand bar with my boat last year and developed a leak. I could see a crack along one of the strakes but wasn't sure if it was leaking so I started filling the boat with water while on the trailer and sure enough, saw water running out the crack. I cut a hole in the floor under the seat and packed mat fiberglass and epoxy resin into the strake and now don't get a drop in the boat.
....I would have pursued it more completely.
