[DANK]

Hi Joe,
I don’t think you should install this drain at least yet. First year do what you said then take it to a master dealer to drain if you think water is inside (loss of speed, wave handling changes, water sound under deck when walking, attention to water line changes, etc….). Well worth it, only about an hour of labor to drain if even needed you’ll know for sure if water is really getting in the foam cavity. I don’t want you to put a hole in your boat if you do not need it (keep it sealed if it is). Since you don’t trailer and you leave it in the water, I don’t think this is the fix for you. The trailer helps drain because your able to lift the tongue up real high 3 to 4 feet. This drain is slow in my case 1 drip every 1 to 2 seconds. This may be unique to his boat but someone said something on this forum about water shooting out when drilling the transom drain hole. If the same as my boat and others on this forum it could take sometime for your boat to drain and may not be fast enough for you. Especially if it freezes where you live and that’s the only time it’s going to be out of the water. If you do have serious water intrusion you may be only able to go 20mph by the time you take it out of the water but, you maybe able to split a 6 foot wave in half (grrrrr, no more rough days) .
Don’t worry should all be under warranty? That is another thing make sure the warranty is transferable to you if it is a used Triumph. I think Triumph should warranty their boat without question in this matter and just stand behind their name and brilliant boat no matter who sold it to you (search forum, keyword: warranty).
I also read a post on this forum about someone asking about installing an inner hull foam cavity drain since they leave the boat in the water for long periods (search forum, keyword: drain). Sorry about the keyword searches but I don’t have the time to find the link and would have to do same.
I hope this helps, safe boating all, DANK