Drain Plug Location

julian h · Jun 20, 2013

I think it probably is a matter of personal preference.

Pat · Jun 20, 2013

We had a Daysailor II as well and I recall that our drain plus location was all-important for the bailer to work....I will check with some people I know here in Wichita that sail O'day
Daysailors, but there is also an active Day Sailor owner's group that you should be able to
contact by searching on Google...good luck, Pat

Pat · Jun 20, 2013

I just remembered that on our DS, the plug was on the inside of the boat...that insured there was no chance of losing it into the big blue deep.....the plug has a specific orientation so as to drain well & quickly when taking on water.....boy, if I'm wrong about this, please shoot me...I can remember checking the orientation from inside the boat....to insure the drain was in correctly....there is an all-important hole to facilitate the
drainage while moving....

Sunbird22358 · Jun 20, 2013

If you are refering ot the 1" rubber drain plug positioned about 1" above the waterline that "drains" the cockpit, it has to be inserted from inside or else it will prevent you from mounting the rudder. I wanted to install a flapper over the outside of mine so I could maybe leave it out on hte mooring without having a lot of water flow IN, but found that there wasn't room between the transom and the rudder and it would prevent the lower pintle from being inserted into the lower gudgeon.

The self-bailer (sorry don't have a picture) has a plug on the inside, but you can't really reach the outside with boat in water.

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