Where's the water coming from??

[Roughasguts]

That's the part i'm worried about Blaze.
Who knows what damage the water will do to the stringers, or transom.

[finga]

That's settled it then hasn't it.
Blaze and RAGS says fix it asap. Or better still NOW!! before the crap sets in.
I'm sure you don't want to go through the new floor and transom bit again do you Brian??
So......
I'll make a time and day seeing your slack Brian.
Saturday arvo at Brian's (AKA puffing Billy or big bad wolf) house around 4-4.30pm for everyone that knows where Brian lives and wants to help/learn.
Bring your own beer and chips.
All I need to know is what size bung hole you've got Brian.
We're going to find this leak.
Cheers Scott
PS If that time and place doesn't suit you Brian then change your plans.
PPS Make sure Kelly's boyfriend (is it Kelly or has Jess got a boy friend now as well??) is there. We'll sort him/them out at the same time

[Poodroo]

That's settled it then hasn't it.
Blaze and RAGS says fix it asap. Or better still NOW!! before the crap sets in.
I'm sure you don't want to go through the new floor and transom bit again do you Brian??
So......
I'll make a time and day seeing your slack Brian.
Saturday arvo at Brian's (AKA puffing Billy or big bad wolf) house around 4-4.30pm for everyone that knows where Brian lives and wants to help/learn.
Bring your own beer and chips.
All I need to know is what size bung hole you've got Brian.
We're going to find this leak.
Cheers Scott
PS If that time and place doesn't suit you Brian then change your plans.
PPS Make sure Kelly's boyfriend (is it Kelly or has Jess got a boy friend now as well??) is there. We'll sort him/them out at the same time

Gee. This Saturday you say? One of the nephews is fishing with uncle Frank then and it isn't Brian.

Poodroo

News just in: Fishing trip has been postponed. Apparently uncle Frank doesn't go out in 30 knot winds.

[jimbo59]

Ok ive got another idea so you got no compressor and you a bit funny about the nieghbours watching your face go red...........do you eat indian

[FNQCairns]

Lol

[Scalem]

Well now let me think about it for a while will ya's

Poodroo knows which weekend to skite about doing a trip on the HMAS Frankoo, you might be lucky enough to aim your trebble hook at the garage door handle, because that's where the boat will be anchored

But I know which is the best weekend to T up a fish with T1, so I guess I am no better off either

Finga, is the big bad wolf coming around?? I guess I had better prepare for him then. The bung hole is the standard smaller of the two you see around.

Scalem

[finga]

Fine thread or course thread??
The big bad wolf is YOU (Brian) when you huff and puff and blow your boat up.
Don't forget about the girls boyfriends so we can sort them out as well

[frankj]

Mate

I had a similar problem as you. Always had water to drain from the sub floor drain. After some headscratching it turned out to be the outbord well drainage tubes leaking water into the transom. Transom rotted down to the keel and water simply drained through into the cavity under the deck. Solution, new transom with what I believe is an improved design on all transom holes. Initially, I simply removed the drain tube bushes in the outboard well and found what appeared to be very wet paper mache in the transom.

See photos.

Cheers
Frank

[Scalem]

Frank.

Nice work there mate - to be honest I suspect water has got into the transom similarly - but I always think worste case cenario in the hope that when the news is bad, it won't hurt as much This will be the boat's 2nd transom if that is the case, but the last time they put a good amount of glass in there, wrapping around the marine ply which is small by comparison. I hope I won't need to do anything immediately, the boat still seems strong enough.

I have attached the photo of the bung Scottie!!

Scalem

[blaze]

wondering how the huffing and puffing is going, who is producing the most pressure, who has had the most curries.
Hope all goes well the the testing and no one come to any bodily harm
cheers
blaze
ps
hope no ones got that much wind they blow the boat apart

[Scalem]

wondering how the huffing and puffing is going, who is producing the most pressure, who has had the most curries.
Hope all goes well the the testing and no one come to any bodily harm
cheers
blaze
ps
hope no ones got that much wind they blow the boat apart

I don't know yet Blaze, I have been trying Scottie's mobile but no answer. All welcome to wittness the huffin and puffin, but just don't stand behind me to see which way the hot air is blowing!! Not scheduled till later this pm I understand

Scalem

PS

Scottie has been, only I had better explain BEFORE he gets a chance to add to the post. Here's a chance for a stir thinks Finga - he rocks up with both a digital camera and a digital video. Would you smell a rat if a mate turns up with both?? So what happens now? Start blowin' he says. But why did you want me to say what type of thread I had in the bungs, weren't you going to make something?? Oh well, so I start blowing into the hole. And guess what? It wasn't such a dumb idea, because I managed to get a pound or so of pressure into the hull and I could hear air escaping from the top bung hole. That was a little strange, but more on that later.

So we armed the girls with spray bottles that had detergent/water so that any air escaping would form bubbles over the escaping air. We crawled under the boat, and could not find anything, except one crack in the floor where a screw was originally placed to fasten the floor into one of the stringers, and air escaping at the top bung hole.... we say it again, "How Bizzaar"

So by now Scottie has had a chance to snap a few photos and roll some video, he says, "Brian, try this" as he passes over a piece of well engineered piping into bung with a connector on the end of it. Looked like a reasonable mouthpiece, at least I won't have to bend down as far, but after the 1st try, I am convinced that the narrow pipe is too restrictive, and I am better off blowing the bugle into the bung hole by mouth. Then he says, Brian, follow me. He leads me down to the car and opens the tailgate. What's in there?? A portable compressor!!! Good onya Scottie, what a good mate you turned out to be!!

After running the compressor, we could again hear lots of air escaping from the top bung hole, so I jumped into the boat to see what I could find by sticking my head down underneath...... Aha! There's the problem! The top bung hole was not sealing properly, and there was a gap/crack between the transom and the floor. The crack does not seem to be part of the transom as it is too far forward, but still part of the bung hole, so the water was coming in through the top bung, dribbling into the crack, and down into the sub floor compartment. We've sealed it with Epoxy and tomorrow I will seal the top bung again with sikaflex or silastic.

The verdict - not as serious as I thought, and the new boat may be on hold for a few years yet!

The photos show the back is a little messy still, I ran out of black silastic and now using clear, showing residue black through it - to be tidied up later, and soapy water which has dried on the transom. The different colour flowcoat is also a little embarrassingly shoddy, but I had to seal that in a hurry after a slight mishap on the boatramp a few weeks ago, where I was avoiding sinking the hubs which didn't have bearing buddies yet, but that's another story.
Thanks for your help Finga!!

Scalem

[blaze]

good to see a task come together without loss of life and /or serius injury and the boat appears to be in one peice (so no curry for tea?)
cheers
blaze

[Poodroo]

Well that's a relief. For a change it wasn't a major problem. Nice to know that sometimes boat problems don't always end up in big dollar outlay.

Poodroo

[finga]

Ya, when I finish with Marlin Mikes boat today the REAL report on how Brian blow his boat up is going to happen.
I need a bit of time for this

[Poodroo]

Regardless of what Brian calls himself on Ausfish I get the impression he is also going to be known as The Big Bad Wolf from this day forth. Can't wait to see the "real" report Scotty.

Poodroo