YIKES 1979 20ft seacraft HELP PLEASE

[Billybob]

A big wave over the bow?
Look, you got the floor up, you would have to be nutz to drain to the bilge.
Raise the floor and go out the back.
Have you searched here, it's been done and done.

[Capt Chuck]

NO NO BILGE !!!!
Out the transom is the trick. Go to the search function
Many threads coupled with photos for your reading pleasure on this topic. Be sure to read the " Vortex" solution.

[NoBones]

Sorry boys......
Not backing down on this one !
You can not fix STUPID...

[Will Work For Boats]

Originally Posted by NoBones

Sorry boys......
Not backing down on this one !
You can not fix STUPID...

go be an ass somewhere else.

[Will Work For Boats]

Originally Posted by Capt Chuck

NO NO BILGE !!!!
Out the transom is the trick. Go to the search function
Many threads coupled with photos for your reading pleasure on this topic. Be sure to read the " Vortex" solution.

I will check it out. I was planning on raising the floor as it was recommended by many others in the begining of the thread. Lake Erie gets ruff very fast so to take on water here and there is a given. My 16 ft boat gets drenched a good amount and it's pumped out by the bilge. Our waters are a different animal than the ocean. 2 years ago we were fishing about 12 mi out and 18 over west what started as 1.5 ft seas ended ruffly 3 hours later as 13ft seas due a storm building as it came across the lake. I do appreciate your guys time and input. Thanks

[otterhound]

Maybe just think about when the bilge pump fails as they all do at some point. You need to get the water overboard, not in the bilge.
Rod

[FLexpat]

Originally Posted by otterhound

Maybe just think about when the bilge pump fails as they all do at some point. You need to get the water overboard, not in the bilge.
Rod

X2 on this and Capt. Chuck's post.
I got my 20 Bertram because the PO set it up for draining into the bilge and sank it at the dock when he had a failure. Bilge pumps and float switches are notoriously failure prone (and batteries often die). A self-bailing cockpit bypasses a huge part of this problem by keeping a whole lot of water out of the bilge; water in the bilge then becomes the red-flag it should be rather than a commonplace thing. Personally, I hate the idea of NOT having a self bailing cockpit.