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If water is coming out, then water can get in.
The water that you are seeing is coming out of two voids, one on each side of the keel supports. When water gets in your bilge it is seeping into the voids through the glob that you are talking about. This water does not drain out through the inner hull drains. Their is not any foam in the voids.
I drilled two holes into the top of the voids just aft of the gas tank and vacuumed out the water that was in them, then resealed the holes with spin welds. I then removed all of the old elastomeric from the golb area, cleaned the area with denatured alcohol and then resealed the area with new elastomeric. I made two dams with cardboard and taped them onto the keel support and filled the area up with elastomeric. This makes a much better seal than just trying to seal around the bolt in the keel stringer. I havent had any more water getting into the voids after doing this. The next time that I have to drain water out of this area I will install some kind of removable water tight access port so that I can vacuum out the water with out installing spin weld plugs. This area can hold more than 30 gallons of water when full. This my not be something you want to do yourself unless you understand how the boat is made. Good luck, Bob
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