The PROBLEM With Having TOO Much Weight In The Back… #boating #boatlife

too much weight on the back of a boat and having the deck drains go down under the water

Take an older boat like a 17 or something like that, that's got a 70 horse two stroke

The weight of the four stroke is generally going to sink the bottom of the boat down

in the water. A lot of times it puts the deck drains under the water, which creates a problem

The plugs out when it's at the dock, the rain will go out. If you're out there and you're fishing, if you're pulling fish in the boat and you're

spraying the blood off, you're putting a lot of water in the boat. If you are out there snorkeling, diving, any of that stuff, when you get spray that

comes in over the boat, you're going to have water in the boat

When you're actually using the boat, it's also an issue there. But if you look at the older whalers and stuff like that, I mean, whaler's probably the best

one to use. All those boats had that transom with the big cutout and it had that splash well in there

They were always getting water in there. So if you're out fishing or something like that and you're standing in the back of the

boat, the back of those boats were always wet and it only had a little lip on the back

of the boat. Because you'd have to always be in driving in order to get the water to flow to the back

of the boat.