23 Self-bailing deck history ?

[sogilmore]

I am still reading though all the replies. This issue is sadly near and dear to my heart. I have a '73 23' Tsunami, it had a '95 OMC king Cobra IO. Now I always had issue with the wt of the power pckg in the aft of the boat. When standing in the rear, water would back up and into the boat, with two or more fishing in the aft, we were in 2" of water. My fear was that the engine well lip was only 4" and that if for any reason water got high in the cockpit, it could and would spill over into the bilge and quickly start a sinking situation.

Can you convert from the verticle drains to something out the back? I suspect that the problem is that the floor sole is just too close to the waterline?

Has this discussion lead to a "best practice" for correcting the "wet floor" problem.

-Sean