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I have the deck tore apart on my 1989 23WA replacing the fuel tank. The guy at the fiberglass shop examined the transom and stringers, the back part of the stringers are hollow and intact, but definitely no steel shot that you can see or tell tell anything about. It is getting the tank installed this week and I am out of town, when I get home I will have to take a "BIG" magnet to the strings to see if there is an pull, but I really don't think so. I have head of putting lead shot in different places on a boat to balance it if for some reason it was not balanced. I would be willing to be this was done by a previous owner, not the factory.
I will check my through hull fitting but no sign of leakage. I do not keep my boat in the water and trailer it every time I launch and retrieve and take it home and park in the pole building. I think my leakage problems occur when left in the water full time and the owner does no do the needed maintenance. [img]/forum/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]