[Putershark]

This is not a defect,
All boats from the Ark to the USS Enterprise leak water and some like the Titanic take on water "Big Time" it is only a problem if you don't remove it

Any screw hole you or the factory make (worse if the boat sets uncovered in lot of rain like we have here) can allow water to migrate into the inner hull. The only "defect" (if you want to call it such) was the factory not just installing inner hull drains before shipment of every 210 and 190 hull and I still to this day do not see the the logic in not doing such

Now before I even put mine (now 3 year old) 190 into the water for the first time, I had installed a inner hull drain. This was a lesson I learned from the my old 210 that got full of water and I heard it when walking around in the floor of the mega hatch just forward of the console. Once I installed 2 inner hull drains on the old 210, it drained out for a few weeks and the boat got a lot lighter trust me

Like I said, water is not a problem unless it cannot be removed. With a inner hull drain and the bow setting a little high when on a trailer. It is not hard to get all the water back out and once drained, it stays that way quite well