Quote Originally Posted by larry_arizona View Post
Interesting issue and recovery. You can fast forward for most of this.

https://youtu.be/vEL3cSwBDXo


Come to find out, this owner uses expanding rubber plugs in the hull and it fell out combined with replacing factory batteries upon deliver and failed to correctly hook up the bilge discharge hose.

$400k boat and rubber drain plug…….



https://youtu.be/8woRgenI3jY


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It seems that it's not just him that used an expanding rubber plug. It looks like all Pavati boats use expanding plugs, but usually use the t-turn style instead of the flip handle. I don't understand why they couldn't have a threaded plug. I know there will be dissimilar metals issues with brass and aluminum, but there is no reason they couldn't have something far more secure than a tension plug. I have seen at least 3 videos of boats sinking at Lake Powell because of the flip style plugs.