Plug in the ski locker????

BobH

BobH

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May 28, 2010
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2006 185 Sport
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V-6 190HP
Should the plug in the ski locker be in or out when on the water?? My old Glastron did not have this feature??
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BobH
 
That's hilarious. Almost every time I open up the ski locker I look at that plug and wonder if I should install it. I have not yet and I think it's the correct answer. If I did, any water that comes in the bow seating area or anchor locker would pool up there. I am not sure why it's there.
 
I had the plug in the ski well once while we were camping and the boat was on the trailer. It rained all night and woke up to the ski well filled to the top with water. Drained it and never put the plug in again. Not sure what it is there for.
 
That's a good question, I wonder if it's there to keep contaminated/oily water from the bilge from rushing forward while your running, just a guess. I understand why the locker drains to the bilge. If I had a dry bilge I'd leave it out all the time. If I had a dirty/oily/wet/bilge I'd plug it while running.
 
dicor has it right. It's to keep any dirty oily water from entering the locker, just in case something happens while underway. I forget to put mine in most times and if I put it in I forget to take it out, sometimes.
 
I've been meaning to ask the same question. The plug in my ski locker looks a little battle worn, and the rubber has shrunk and it won't stay in. I wondered if the previous owner of my otherwise very clean low hour boat had installed it, and used the locker as a live well. From some junk in the boat, it seemed he mostly fished from it. The bottom of my locker was dirtier then my bilge by far. Maybe it is occasional backed up bilge water? The locker drain hole in mine is slightly raised from the floor, so a little bit never drains out.

So the advice here seems to be I should replace my plug, leave it plugged while on the water, and unplug it when I put it on the trailer and pull the main plug?
 
dicor said:
That's what I'd do, take the plug out when not running . You don't want the locker to fill up with rainwater while on the trailer or at the wetslip.
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We had some people tie up to us once during a fireworks show. They came up next to us complaining that the boat was sitting really low in the water. (And it was...REALLY low) I looked in his ski locker and a rope managed to find it's way into the drain plug hole. It had rained heavily a few days before and never drained while sitting on his trailer. I don't know how much water that storage compartment held but after I pulled the rope out, his bilge pump ran forever.
 
I installed a self bailing non return plug into the motor side of the drain. It allows the water to drain easily but stops the bilge water from entering. Proved itself when the power steering pump sprung a leak.

Cheers
 
Hi. Not sure if this should go here but I will take a chance. I have a 2000 SeaRay 185. The small locker at the bow of the boat can be used as an anchor storage. This area is has a tube running to the outside of the boat with a stainless shroud over the end. At low speeds, with one or two people in the bow, water is forced up this tube into the storage area, fills up, overflows the space, causing water to enter the boat, appear in the large storage are between the seats and eventually run to the back of the boat. The company claims this is a drain tube for the storage space. I'm not sure how water can get into this space to begin with but if they wanted a drain, the area did not have to be made water tight. A drain similar to the one in the large locker would have worked. The company told me to insert a plug in this tube to stop the intrusion of water. Am I misunderstanding something here?
 
Mark RSA2AU said:
I installed a self bailing non return plug into the motor side of the drain. It allows the water to drain easily but stops the bilge water from entering. Proved itself when the power steering pump sprung a leak.

Cheers
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Please elaborate - where can I get one of these? I never put this plug in because, while on the lift, any rain water that gets past the cover must get to the bilge pump or the boat will get too heavy, but I'd use one of these.
 
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