How To Tell If Boat Foam Is Waterlogged

• #one

I recently bought a boat for pretty cheap and then if it is waterlogged it then become a good projection. I am not sure how to test if it is or not. I am thinking drill a pigsty just off center in the floor and run into if water comes up. Then fill the hole in with resin. Would this work or is there a improve mode?

• #4

Weighing is certainly an choice, then long as you take a adept guesstimate of the dry weight of the gunkhole, etc. as far as drilling a hole. . . Not in the deck. Drill into the transom (from the inside of the gunkhole) and the main bulkhead at a low point, preferably well-nigh the keel. That is wehre the water will be.

• #five

If you're wanting to cheque for water logged foam then weighing the boat equally YD described is the near commonly used method every bit long as you lot can pre-determine the dry weight of the boat when she came from the manufactory. Your option of drilling through the flooring tin as well be done, and has been done by others. The all-time method is to apply a 2" hole saw to remove the plywood so mode a foam cutting plug core sample saw from PVC pipe. Cutting some Teeth in one cease of the pipe and then drill a pigsty in the other end so you tin stick a long screw commuter thru the pipe and then kickoff srewing and sawing the pipe down into the foam until you hit bottom. Remove the pipe and peer downward into the hole and come across what you can run into. If there's water, more than than likely it'll exist at the lesser. Waterlogged cream can add up to 5-600lbs of weight to your boat and you can't dry it out, yous must remove and supplant. If its dry, remove the core from the pipe, stick it back in the pigsty, use some thickened resin to glue the plywood back into the deck and y'all're proficient to become.

• #6

Thanks all, I would do the weighing it pick but I tin can't seem to find any information on the boat. It is a thundercraft V142 no clue of the year or weight of information technology. And then I think I will go with Woodonglass's method. Promise it is not water logged much less work ahead if it is dry out.

• #seven

I knew mine was waterlogged when I pulled the transducer off the transom and the holes peed water for a week.

Depending on the condtion of the hull (do you already demand to do any repairs?) and you comfort level repairing information technology, a pocket-size hole drillled at the lowest office of the transom where there is cream volition answer your question.....

• #8

I knew mine was waterlogged when I pulled the transducer off the transom and the holes peed water for a week.

Depending on the condtion of the hull (do y'all already need to practice whatsoever repairs?) and you comfort level repairing it, a small hole drillled at the everyman part of the transom where there is foam will answer your question.....

I know it needs a bit of resin on the keel only that is due to me moving it the incorrect style on the trailer... I am okay with repairs but really don't similar them. I am a computer guy and not very mechanically inclined.

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