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Originally Posted by flyingfrizzle
looking real nice, like the large accesses in the rear. Oh yea, nice trout by the way. I have been wanting to get down that way and do some trout fishing. May head down there after Christmas and wet a line maybe if I can find time.
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As you know, some manufacturers close the dang boats up. Cant get to the bilge pumps, or even see the bilge. I think that a lot of the issue with sinking Seacrafts were that it was impossible to do a good job wiring and plumbing replacemen pumps and switches. On my old 18, I think there was only an 8 x 14 inch or so access panel in the splash well. It was screwed down so you could not look in the bilge anywhere. Now how do you put in a new pump with one hand in that tiny access? I just took out the in deck live well ( saws all, grinder-there was a a huge blob of potter putty holding the dang thing in-it came out in pieces and the had to grind/chisel the potter putty). I then was able to put in 2 bilge setups properly.
In the boat in this thread, the rear most hole serves as the access to pumps, thru hulls, and some wiring and other stuff at the gunnels (coming from the console, fuel tank). The more forward hull is an insulated icebox, so there is no access to the hull. That is to say the divnycell is above the hull, with bilge water running under it.
As for the trout, those are from October. The large trout are gone somewhere and we have spikes now.