Peahead
Well-Known Member
The 228 Seafarer scuppers are at or below the water line especially with a kicker motor and full fuel tanks. Add scupper rubber flaps that don't seal well and a couple big heavy guys playing fish/working the downrigger in a stern 'corner" of the cockpit and you can get backflow up through that scupper. Before you know it you are sloshing through an on deck "puddle" of water with soaked shoes.
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 any comments, thoughts or ideas !
Greg
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 any comments, thoughts or ideas !
Greg