"Ree-Yees" wrote
What do you people think?

I think you may be approaching this from the wrong end. My guess is that
little well and tube are designed to do the opposite of what you're
describing. That is to say, when you get water in that low spot up front,
it's supposed to drain through the tube down into the bilge where it can be
pumped out. Otherwise, it has nowhere to go. (I'm assuming that when the
boat is in the water, the bow end of the tube is higher than the stern end.)
I'd check around in the bilge and see why there's so much water getting in
there that it's running forward when it's on the trailer. That doesn't seem
right.