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If yours is a 73 it should have the quad stringers instead of the two big box stringers. It may have the bigger ones as they changed sometime around 73. I know all 74s have them but seen it both ways in 73. But anyway if you don't want to tear it apart and you do have water in there the best way to get it out is drill small 1/4" weep holes at the lowest point of the base of each stringer. This will allow the water to slowly drain out. Only bad thing is if you get water in the bilge high enough it can soak back in. If you can get it all drained out and then seal the drain holes back up you would be ok but it may take a few months for all of it to drain out. This works much better in the summer months. I have found that a lot of the stringers will have water in them only in the bottom base area and the top of the foam dry. There will be a rubber drain pipe at the back of the stringers. It seems like the top above the hose exit can drain out of it and everything lower than the hole where the hose exits will collect and hold the water in as it cant escape.

Also I have heard of people injecting rubbing alcohol in the stringer cases and they say it will help adsorb the water then evaporate out faster.