Warning for Trailcraft owners

[zan0_15]

After returning from fishing on the weekend and pulling the bung on my boat (5600Sportscab) i noticed about 5 litres of water came from the hull.

This is not meant to happen and i had never had water come out the bung before. At this stage it is important to note that most trailcraft do not come with a bilge pump. :ohmy:

This could have only meant 2 things, crack somewhere in the hull or the "inspection opening" on the back pod which is exposed to the wash of waves.

This is the inspection opening

and on closer inspection of mine this is what i found

Not sure if all trailcrafts have this but just thought id post this up as it could potentially be a very dangerous failure to have when on the water and i consider my self lucky.

The port openings are a $15 item from bias boating so well worth changeing if it looks a bit dodgy. Over the years the sun gets to the plastic and it cracks.

I will be taking a plastic one to an engineer and seeing if they can fabricate me one out of ally.

Anyways just thought this may help come folk out.

Cheers

[reef_raider]

You can buy alloy ones mate but theyr well over $100

[zan0_15]

where can you buy them? i asked at bias and the bloke couldnt tell me.

[reef_raider]

I work at bias at Virginia and we can order them from bla. Which bias did you go into?

[zan0_15]

slacks creek...it is the large size of about 150mm i need.

[billythakid]

You can buy alloy ones mate but theyr well over $100

bla have brass ones around $160 from memory , never seen alloy ones when i worked there

[reef_raider]

Explains why they didnt know. I know we can get alloy ones so shoot me a pm with your number and ill get a price for you tomorrow mate