Scupper hoses

I had the dealership replace my scupper drain hoses on my 2007 Sailfish. Figured they had done it a time or two, which they had. They had one kid who always got stuck with this job so he got pretty good at it. Much better than I could have been. Port side went pretty easily for him. On starboard side, he gave me two choices as to where to cut in a six-inch pie plate. I chose the flat between the ladder and the transom door.

The hoses were in bad shape. Interestingly, they were labeled as marine fuel hoses.

I do believe this to be a very real safety issue. What prompted me to even look at the hoses was reading about a 265 that went turtle off NJ. Turns out a hose went bad. And, in a chop, enough water found its way in to pull the stern under. Fortunately, the overturned bow stayed afloat and they were found quickly, as I recall.
 
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wahoo33417 said:
I had the dealership replace my scupper drain hoses on my 2007 Sailfish. Figured they had done it a time or two, which they had. They had one kid who always got stuck with this job so he got pretty good at it. Much better than I could have been. Port side went pretty easily for him. On starboard side, he gave me two choices as to where to cut in a six-inch pie plate. I chose the flat between the ladder and the transom door.

The hoses were in bad shape. Interestingly, they were labeled as marine fuel hoses.

I do believe this to be a very real safety issue. What prompted me to even look at the hoses was reading about a 265 that went turtle off NJ. Turns out a hose went bad. And, in a chop, enough water found its way in to pull the stern under. Fortunately, the overturned bow stayed afloat and they were found quickly, as I recall.
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Was the other option to put the pie plate on the side instead of the floor? If you happen to have a picture of where the plate was installed, I would appreciate it.

Since the boat is still in the water, I am thinking to plug the scupper thru hulls, install a pie plate and replace the hoses or at least put some flexseal tape until hoses can be replaced.

Has anyone ever replaced scupper hoses with the boat still in the water? If that’s not a good idea, then I will just reinforce with the tape. Boat is currently in a slip and marina won’t be able to do any work till mid season.
 
I think you're fine to replace it in the water - just have a "worst case" back-up plan. For example, if your plug should fail... what is your back-up to plug the hole well enough to get the boat on land?

Beaching to boat can be one of the back-up plans.

If you're in good standing with your marina (friendly with them... buy things from the service department on occassion, etc), I can't imagine that if you explain how bad the hoses are that they wouldn't help you out?

How 'bout another marina that you can drive the boat to?
 
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