LOL every time I do anything with my boat I think about @Kirk 
Just babbling here but I'm sure someone will solve it for me before I ever look.
Backstory for those that don't know.
1985 Bass Tracker Guide V-16
2014 Yamaha 25 hp four stroke engine.
I guess I am going on 10 years with this boat now and the first few years it did not leak a DROP.
I mean like nothing.
Then, after time, being a riveted boat, it started leaking a bit.
Nothing major and still not enough to even remove my drain plug after the trip.
Couple years ago I started taking on about an inch of water over the course of a trip.
Left the drain plug in, and leveled the boat out on the trailer in the garage and then checked to see where it was dripping.
Found two rivets that were leaking, marked them, drained the boat then covered these spots with JB Weld, waterweld.
Worked like a charm.
Fast forward to this year.
Started noticing after 5-6 hours of fishing I would have like 3-4 inches of water in the back of the boat.
Hmm, bet my drain plug is leaking.
Replaced that, no difference.
Left some of the water in the boat and can see where it is dripping but that's not where it's leaking. Where the V comes together there is a "cover" over that area and thus I can't tell where it is leaking.
Man and I were at the 1,000 acre lake Monday morning and after about 5 hours I had the "normal" 4" of water in the back end.
We left war eagle cove headed towards the ramp at my whopping 12 mph and I noticed the water rising.
Then the motor started laboring.
It quickly went from 4" to almost to the top of my battery box.
That ain't no rivet doing that.
I have never used the livewell in my boat. I cut the hose coming from the pump going to the livewell and plugged it off and I use it for dry storage.
When I got home and was putting my homemade bilge pump up I noticed the livewell had water in it.
It finally dawned on me that there must be some kind of drain or something in the livewell that is letting water come in.
As I said I have never used it for a livewell and it has probably been 6 years or more since I have even seen the bottom of it.
That is all I can come up with because there is not a hole the size of a golf ball or anything in the bottom of my boat and the amount of water I am taking on every rivet in the entire boat would have to be totally gone and I still don't think it would let that much in. LOL
Gonna give it a looksee this afternoon but figured ya'll would get a kick out of it, and as I said, probably can tell me what it is before I ever get there.
Just babbling here but I'm sure someone will solve it for me before I ever look.
Backstory for those that don't know.
1985 Bass Tracker Guide V-16
2014 Yamaha 25 hp four stroke engine.
I guess I am going on 10 years with this boat now and the first few years it did not leak a DROP.
I mean like nothing.
Then, after time, being a riveted boat, it started leaking a bit.
Nothing major and still not enough to even remove my drain plug after the trip.
Couple years ago I started taking on about an inch of water over the course of a trip.
Left the drain plug in, and leveled the boat out on the trailer in the garage and then checked to see where it was dripping.
Found two rivets that were leaking, marked them, drained the boat then covered these spots with JB Weld, waterweld.
Worked like a charm.
Fast forward to this year.
Started noticing after 5-6 hours of fishing I would have like 3-4 inches of water in the back of the boat.
Hmm, bet my drain plug is leaking.
Replaced that, no difference.
Left some of the water in the boat and can see where it is dripping but that's not where it's leaking. Where the V comes together there is a "cover" over that area and thus I can't tell where it is leaking.
Man and I were at the 1,000 acre lake Monday morning and after about 5 hours I had the "normal" 4" of water in the back end.
We left war eagle cove headed towards the ramp at my whopping 12 mph and I noticed the water rising.
Then the motor started laboring.
It quickly went from 4" to almost to the top of my battery box.
That ain't no rivet doing that.
I have never used the livewell in my boat. I cut the hose coming from the pump going to the livewell and plugged it off and I use it for dry storage.
When I got home and was putting my homemade bilge pump up I noticed the livewell had water in it.
It finally dawned on me that there must be some kind of drain or something in the livewell that is letting water come in.
As I said I have never used it for a livewell and it has probably been 6 years or more since I have even seen the bottom of it.
That is all I can come up with because there is not a hole the size of a golf ball or anything in the bottom of my boat and the amount of water I am taking on every rivet in the entire boat would have to be totally gone and I still don't think it would let that much in. LOL
Gonna give it a looksee this afternoon but figured ya'll would get a kick out of it, and as I said, probably can tell me what it is before I ever get there.
