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I'd like to wait and see if the inner hull drain solves my problem before doing anything drastic. The deck is made up with several sections and everyone of them is a potential watertrap but hopefully all water eventually ends up in the very bottom of the boat and leaves via the inner hull drain. I am not familiar with the construction under the deck but I assume (hope) all compartments have openings that will allow water to flow to the lowest part of the hull where my new drain is located. I realize it might take a while to drain if a lot of water has accumulated but so be it. I keep the boat on a trailer and I have a concrete block under the jack and its has been dripping nicely for days so maybe it will solve my problem.
Getting back the 3-4 MPH that I lost maybe a process of elimination. I have dinged up my prop several times on oysters beds and I file it smooth so I've probably taken about 1/8" off of it and maybe thats why I lost speed?? I'm from PA and I wasn't used to the shallows here on Florida's west coast. I'll replace the factory aluminum with a SS prop one of these days but for now, I'll see what the 3rd drain does. It should definitely be standard equipment on all 190 Bays.
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