Scupper's

[Gary Hill]

FELLOW-SHIP,
Did you ever get any photos of your final mod to your scuppers?
I know you have the skills to do everything on a SEACRAFT right.
Do you now get any water in the back with 3-4 people back there?
Please post pictures of the install.
Ohyea you could be a twin for one of my fishing buddy's but you have more hair.

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Ha Knot Working;

Got the work done but don’t have pictures at present. I will try this week to post some for you. My new inline scuppers working just fine. Need to do a little more cosmetic work to guccing them up a little more. It has eliminated the use of my last invention “The Vortex” and it keeps the water out. I set the inline scuppers with a portion of the scupper inside the deck for a couple of reasons mostly to remove any junk from the scuppers like leaves and such by just reaching down and pulling it out. If I would have put all of the inline scupper between the liner where the two oval hatch doors are and the inside of the transom then junk could get caught and it would have been much harder to remove it. When I post the pictures you will be able to see.




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[abl1111]

Fellowship,

Hey. I just made a temporary Vortex - works GREAT! I was wondering, did you ever think of, or rather, what do you think of, making a fiberglass mold of an actual garboard tube / scupper and using that instead of PVC ?

The reasoning is to maximize diameter of outflow, whereas the PVC makes that ridiculously small, 1" scupper drain even smaller.

I use my boat mostly in a shallow, fairly protected Bay - the SC eats the nasty short chop up. But, if I were to do much deeper ocean fishing, where storms and swell can get nasty, or a really tough inlet, I think the 1" scuppers are really "underkill" and a short-sight in design. If a wave entered the boat, it would take a hell of along time for it to exit !

Hopefully, one day I'll figure out a way, unless someone has done it already, to make a larger diameter, through-floor scupper that does not allow water back in, without having to raise a perfectly good floor.

Until then, G-D bless the Vortex, because there is nothing better than it short of using drain plugs.

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Ha Abl


I did give some thought to making a scupper that would fit inside the brass tube. If you used thin walled PVC pipe and using a oval looking over size hatch door type device approx 1/8 thick that would fit inside the PVC pipe approx ½ the way down the pipe and attack to both sides of the pvc tube gravity would hold in open but water coming up through the pvc would close in shut. My new scuppers use a rubber flap horizontally attached to the top of the inline scupper But you cant use rubber inside a tube going
vertical because the rubber would eventually open up and get stuck because of gravity so plastic flip open running through and hinging should work. I went with the inline scuppers because I got tired or putting the Vortex in and taking them out each time I went fishing plus I had a $150.00 in my pocket and got board. I wanting to work on the boat instead of my wife’s honey do list.


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