Water in Boat

[millz90]

We had a Large amount of rain the other day i took the cover off of the boat and the WHOLE engine compartment was FULL of water and the center of the boat had a lot of water in it to....the carpet was soak as well.

I DID have a cover on the boat but the plug was in as well.

Im just wondeirng if that is normal? Do i just have a HORRIBLE cover? Granted we did have a lot of rain.

 

[billnpat]

We had a Large amount of rain the other day i took the cover off of the boat and the WHOLE engine compartment was FULL of water and the center of the boat had a lot of water in it to....the carpet was soak as well.

I DID have a cover on the boat but the plug was in as well.



Im just wondeirng if that is normal? Do i just have a HORRIBLE cover? Granted we did have a lot of rain.

What kind of covering did you use??? and those were very windy days, was the covering tied down good enough??? evendentially something was amiss....:huh:

 

[jpk33]

If you are sitting on a trailer you might want to pull the plug so this does not happen again. Try waterproofing your cover.

 

[Quint4]

Store your boat on trailer "bow high" with plug out. Hopefully your starter or alternator was not submerged or your gonna have problems. You obviously have a big leak in your cover.

 

[millz90]

Cover is practically new. Only used a few times. Its a $50 cover from wal mart but seems to be pretty tough.
Is there a spray i can put on the cover to make it more water proof?

I live in NC and we got about 6inch of rain and water sat in the cover for 1 day until i could get to it and check it out. The post in the middle of the boat fell over and filled the cover with water, but there was a lot of water trapped in the cover that i had to pyhon out.

Oh yeah i did have the plug in to. That was probably the misstake other than the cover not being good enough i guess.