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beradon, Baycoastal is right when he said "go with your instincts". If after checking the aft bottom of your hull for any hook, or anything that woulb make your boat ride bow heavy, and if it is, then I would check for wate in the foward part of the hull. I have seen holes drilled into boat bottoms to drain water out of the hull compartments. I belive that you can find threads on this site that have talked about most of the reasons why water got into places that it shouldn't be. Cracked bottomt due to lack of proper triler support, holes in the anchor locker, water going in and out of the gob/stringer area, scupper crackes----etc. It can happen.
My boat had two 1 1/2" holes drilled into the area just aft of the platform that the gas tank sets on and vacuumed about 30-40 gallons of water that got into the compartment through the gob/stringer area. That made the boat lazy out of the hole and it just felt heavy to me.
I had added the inner hull drain and it only dripped. I never did and have not seen a lot of water come out of it, even before finding the water under the gas tank area.
At one time I noticed that every time I washed the boat I would see more water coming out of the inner hull drain. I started looking and found a crack in the bottom of the anchor locker. The crack was in a very thin spot, in a bottom corner of the locker.
Here's the deal, If your boat if not performing properly. Find out why.
You didn't harm your boat by putting the drain in.
Baycostal, I don't think you where on a soap box, I have seen some botched plastic surger also. I hope that you get your inner hull leaks fixed and that your repairs are done better this time. Good Luck, Bob
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