Why do most smaller personal boats have holes that you need to plug before going in water?
I assume since we don’t permanently plug them since water inevitably gets in during operation that needs to be drained. Where does that water come from? Why is it designed that way?
In theory, if a boat that has removable is in water long enough without coming out to drain, would the boat sink because of the water that came in during use?
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When it rains, water gets inside of the boat. It has nowhere to go. If you’re storing it on land (which is common for smaller boats), you can just leave the plug out so water has a place to drain. Leaving it plugged means you come back to a stinky boat with a lot of mosquitos after a big rain.
Bigger boats tend to have pumps to deal with this since water can get in a lot of other ways too, it’s harder to deal with manually, and they don’t spend a lot of time on land.
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