Maiden Voyage- Successful

[Bdog]

Hi The Wife and I took the 2019 AR 195 out today for a quick Mother’s Day cruise/break-in .

No issues no warning tones everything seemed to be functioning fine.

Minnesota has a lot of milfoil invasive species check points so clearly we need to travel with the plugs open and this is something the inspector missed as well however when we got home in the driveway I noticed that the clean out port was s full of water???

Does this occur from a lot of reverse maneuvers? Is this something that I need to empty out all the time? In general is it normal to lift the hatch and have all of that water in the clean out port? Any help is appreciated, maybe I did something wrong?

 

[Weeb]

Hi The Wife and I took the 2019 AR 195 out today for a quick Mother’s Day cruise/break-in .

No issues no warning tones everything seemed to be functioning fine.

Minnesota has a lot of milfoil invasive species check points so clearly we need to travel with the plugs open and this is something the inspector missed as well however when we got home in the driveway I noticed that the clean out port was s full of water???

Does this occur from a lot of reverse maneuvers? Is this something that I need to empty out all the time? In general is it normal to lift the hatch and have all of that water in the clean out port? Any help is appreciated, maybe I did something wrong?

Yes you’ll get water in there if you stop quick and water comes up onto the second level of the swim deck. You should empty the water or the rubber seals swell. It’s good t lubricate the rubber on the plugs too.

 

[haknslash]

Water more than likely comes up from the clean out tray drain than rather from the second tier. I don't know why everyone says that when the upper tier SeaDek was always dry and the lower was always soaked. It would take me running the 500 lb swim deck ballast bag to make water come over the lower tier and that was with trying to make it do it. Open the clean out tray and you'll see water if you come off plane quickly. I do not think there is a check valve in-line for the clean out tray drain. The drain is on the underside of the swim platform and when you come off plane it floods this area so the water must go somewhere (shoots up to your clean out tray and ultimately some makes it on top of the plug). One of the 19' guys even put a GoPro in the hatch to see where the water comes from and he said he saw it shoot up from the drain which explains why the underside of the hatch is always soaked.

 

[Bdog]

Water more than likely comes up from the clean out tray drain than rather from the second tier. I don't know why everyone says that when the upper tier SeaDek was ways dry and of course the lower was always soaked. It would take me running the 500 lb swim deck ballast bag to make water come over the lower tier, Open the clean out try and you'll see water. If you come off plane quickly I do not think there is a check valve in-line for the clean out tray drain. The drain is on the underside of the swim platform and when you come off plane it floods this area so the water must go somewhere (shoots up to your clean out tray and ultimately some makes it on top of the plug). One of the 19' guys even out a GoPro in the hatch to see where the water comes from and he said he saw it shoot up from the drain which explains why the underside of the hatch is always soaked.

Perfect these are all the answers I was looking for I was just assuming something is wrong and since it doesn’t really affect performance i will just remember to dump it every time.

Also as far as the handling goes on the 19s I’m not sure if the keel makes a difference or not it’s definitely different than a propeller boat however I grew up with wave runners and I think I did pretty good and I’m going to pass on the thrust vectors for now. I just view it as a giant wave runner takes a little bit of getting used to but not too bad. We won’t be doing a whole lot of docking very often other than to load and unload. Works for us! I would be SOL without this forum thanks for all the usable advice and wallet draining tweaks!

 

[Liveto99]

Always have water in them, but now we both know why.

 

[tdonoughue]

Not only do I make it a practice to take the plugs out every time (draining the water, avoiding the swell, saving the environment), but I also set the plugs in the tray and leave the hatch open. See, it is impossible to start the engines and try to take off away from the dock with the hatch open like that. Makes me remember to put them back in properly.

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