Water trapped between hull and ski locker subfloor

[98outback]

Im not sure how many this will apply to but I do not have the walk thru bow. I have the play pen setup. This weekend I am going to drill a hole and see how deep it is from the bottom of the locker to the bottom of the boat and then put in a deck plate. How many other people have the play pen setup besides me?

[jmvotto]

Very good JM! Keep us posted.

My dealer got back to me and went to storage to ease my concerns. He found that doing the walk and squish test that mine is fairly dry. he even heard the "crunching sound" of dry foam. also stated that there was a small void near the bow, but was somewhat covered with excess glass and sealant ( probably not on purpose),so the void is about the size of a fist.

Thanks to Quinn, for going out of your way to ensure some piece of mind in the off season and during your wind down busy season up North for the winter

FWIW i use my test plug in the ski locker drain most of the season.

[moombadaze]

jm, glad to hear you have a dry hull

[moombadaze]

pulled the floor up tonight and found about 2" of water under the gas tank-vacumed that dry and got some more water out from under the ski locker.

one good thing--got to listen to some music and drink a beer at the same time

[jmvotto]

when i did my ballast project this summer i pulled the floor. no water in the gas tank area either, guess i am just lucky

[viking]

Looks like most on here with problems have the LSV and not the Outback V so that could be some of it?

[wolfeman131]

Looks like most on here with problems have the LSV and not the Outback V so that could be some of it?

I was wondering the same thing. Any 06-09 OBV owners having this issue?

Wonder if this was addressed in the 2010 or 2011 LSV's?

[Razzman]

Wonder if this was addressed in the 2010 or 2011 LSV's?

Read earlier in the thread, a 2010 was shown without the issue.

[wolfeman131]

Thanks Razz. I've been trying to keep up with this thread, but missed that it looks like the 2010's are OK.

[98outback]

I bought a 4 inch screw lid today and went ahead and cut the hole in the ski locker. Remember I have the playpen seating but it should still be the same basically. Water was on top of the foam as soon as I cut into the fiberglass. I then removed the foam all the way down to the bottom of the hull. As I expected the water kept coming. I used the shop vac and sucked up about 2 gallons. I am going to let it sit and go back and check it tomorrow before putting the lid on it. I will post some pics as soon as I can figure out how to shrink the file size on this new Mac Book.