Tim wrote:
1983 Chris Craft 169, Mercuruiser 140 hp 3.0 with alpha 2.

OK, here's the deal. Last time I took the nephew tubing, we puled
hard, and naturally to plane we did quite a few hole shots. we shut
off for a while and I went swimming the kids, and their mom laid
around in the boat. I noticed the boat was sitting a bit low in the
aft, at least enough for me to take notice. I asked her to go up by
the wheel and flip the pump to "on" she did and the bildge started
pumping. It pumped a pretty good stream for about a minute or so.
Maybe 20 gallons? and the aft raised back up to a respectable level.

i thought that was odd, because when I'm out on the lake by myself or
with the wife just tooling around, I'll run on plane for quite a
while. then when trailering up, I'll pull the plug and it seems I'm
lucky to get a shot glass of water out of the hull.

Wo I'm wondering how the water is getting in and what should I look
for.? I realize that when soaked kids get back in the boat they're not
dripping THAT much water...


Weather permitting I'm planning on taking them out again this weekend.
I'm sure all will be ok, but I AM wondering about the water situation.

Thanks!

Could it be coming in the blower vents? I mean, how low did the transom
go when you did the hole shots. Sinking the vents would be pretty low.
What's an alpha 2?