LSV Ballast Upgrade W/Auxilary Fill Ports

[JesseC]

jesse, just thought of something, its possible your bag on the seat will drain down to the level of the drain hole on the side of the boat, you may need a valve of some kind to block the water off as the tsunami pump will not hold any water back.

Does that make sence?

How did you get the original scupper out of the boat?, I tried on mine and that thing will not budge, yes i did remove the 4 screws and the big nut on the inside.

I don't think the Tsunami will give me any trouble, a little water may trickle out on acceleration, but it is 90 degrees straigt up to the thru hull. I was hoping that water would force its way past the pump a little to help prime the pump. My rear bags are almost in the same exact configuration and I have not had issues with them.

The scupper....that thing is a pain in the butt to get off. I removed the four screws, romoved the large nut, drank a beer, tried to push it from the top and it didn't budge, went underneath the boat and tried cutting caulk without cutting the boat, drank a beer tried to push it from up top again still wouldn't budge, drank two beers to think about a new plan of attack, came up with a plan and drank a beer, forgot the plan of attack and started to loose interest in saving the old scupper; probably at this point I should have quit but I didn't want all that beer to have been drunk in vain so at this point I couldn't give a "pile of poo" and I jumped in the boat with a large mallet and a 2X4, 1 HUGE smack and the scupper hit the floor like a bolt of lightning I probably should have done a few test taps instead of an over the head swing at the 2x4 (I am going to blame the beverages for that one) . Oh well at least the scupper was out. Drank a victory beer!!!!