The 228 Seafarer scuppers are mostly below the water line at the best of times but especially with a kicker motor and full fuel tanks. Add a couple heavy guys playing fish and working downrigger in stern 'corner" the cockpit and you get backflow up through the scuppers. Before you know it there can be a big "puddle" of water in the corner where heavy guys are situated.
I am trying to figure out best way to stop this - one, two, three or all of the following:
1) Haul boat and replace each complete thru hull/scuppers with new ones, either the rubber one way flapper style that Grady installs or the ping pong ball type? Will the ping pong ball type drain as well as the flapper type if partially or fully below water line ?
2) Repace only the rubber flapper and not the whole scupper thru hull ? ( The present rubber flappers in the scuppers are stiff and don't close/seal water out properly) Can I just replace these rubber flappers on the 228 without removing the whole scupper ?
3) Install a seacock shut off on the thru-hull to each of the scuppers and only open them on a trip when I need to use washdown or need to drain deck ?
I have read that every thru hull below or at static water line should have a seacock shut off however because scuppers don't normally sit below water line they don't normally need to be seacock protected. The problem with having a scupper seacock is that you would absolutely have to remember to keep them open for rain drainage when the boat is stored/moored.
4) Have some cockpit deck drain plugs on hand to block the back flow through the scuppers and flooding onto cockpit deck or can I expect new scupper one way rubber flappers to completely seal off the backflow onto deck ?
thanks for your thoughts !
Greg
Vancouver, British Columbia
I am trying to figure out best way to stop this - one, two, three or all of the following:
1) Haul boat and replace each complete thru hull/scuppers with new ones, either the rubber one way flapper style that Grady installs or the ping pong ball type? Will the ping pong ball type drain as well as the flapper type if partially or fully below water line ?
2) Repace only the rubber flapper and not the whole scupper thru hull ? ( The present rubber flappers in the scuppers are stiff and don't close/seal water out properly) Can I just replace these rubber flappers on the 228 without removing the whole scupper ?
3) Install a seacock shut off on the thru-hull to each of the scuppers and only open them on a trip when I need to use washdown or need to drain deck ?
I have read that every thru hull below or at static water line should have a seacock shut off however because scuppers don't normally sit below water line they don't normally need to be seacock protected. The problem with having a scupper seacock is that you would absolutely have to remember to keep them open for rain drainage when the boat is stored/moored.
4) Have some cockpit deck drain plugs on hand to block the back flow through the scuppers and flooding onto cockpit deck or can I expect new scupper one way rubber flappers to completely seal off the backflow onto deck ?
thanks for your thoughts !
Greg
Vancouver, British Columbia