Not sure that the subject explains much. When I stop my boat in the water
and just sit still you can hear a stream of water coming into the boat. The
boat has always taken on water but its enough that running the bilge pump
for a minute every 10-15 minutes drains it all out.

In the back of the boat there is lots of metal plates with bolts coming
through them that the outboard is attaching to, hoses attached to stuff,
etc. In this picture I have circled one small hole/puncture in the metal.
It does not appear that anything used to be connected here cause the metal
is bent around it. The opening is smaller than your pinky finger and water
just pours right in.

I can put my finger back there and stop it from coming in and I dont hear
water pouring in anywhere else. It is terribly hard to get back there to
that area, so I cant see into the hole to see what is on the other side. I
will try to take a better picture of it tonight.

Any ideas about what could have causes this? Should I just patch that hole
up with something? What could I put into the hole and then put caulk aorund
it to seal it up. My only worry would be that I would plug the hole and
that water would go somewhere else, like into the transom!

http://home.comcast.net/~ree-yees/leak1.jpg

Thanks,
Cameron
1987 Sea Ray Seville