Glastron SSV151 Ride height issue

[V153]

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Hope it's not this one ...

 

[Alumarine]

so to check for this foam do i have to pull up my immaculate flooring?

You can pull back the carpet in a few places and using a hole saw drill a 3" hole.
You can glue back the wooden disk after the inspection.
Make sure you pick a spot and just go through the deck and not the boat.
If after drilling the hole you can see lawn you've picked the wrong spot.(got the tshirt)

 

[V153]

Earlier Glastrons are not known for their resistance to rot. The plywood was tabbed in and considered itself lucky if it even got any paint on it.

Here's what came outa my V153: Along with about 100lbs of waterlogged foam.

Not to sound discouraging ... SSV's are great hulls. Just sayin ...

 

[pyro225]

i made a video of both if it makes any difference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xtZJPOve2g

 

[JoLin]

Hi jbcurt00

I assumed as other were 7 seats it was ok as i have done it for a good few trips

That's not a valid assumption. Seating capacity and load capacity on a boat have nothing to do with each other. Your boat has a max capacity of 1100 lbs and 90 hp. The weight capacity includes engine, fuel, 'other stuff' and passengers. Your engine weighs 300 lbs. Your fuel weighs another 100 lbs, your 'stuff'- only you know that. On a nice, calm day you have a passenger capacity in the neighborhood of 600 lbs. Less if you have waves, chop or large boat wakes to contend with.

Don't push it. You put everyone at risk when you do. Specs on your boat can be found in this brochure.Scroll down to the SSV 151...

http://cgoamn.com/38.html

My .02

 

[smokeonthewater]

I don't know what more we can tell you.... You have to identical hulls.... One sits much lower in the water... That means it is displacing more water and thus means it is heavier.... That pretty much means you have a rotten water logged boat.....

The test is weigh it.... The proof and fix is gut it and rebuild it....

It sux but it is what it is.

And yes jolin is spot on... On the boat that sits right your max capacity is 4 250 lb passengers or 5 200 lb passengers etc...

On the waterlogged boat it may well be at max capacity with nobody at all aboard.

IE unsafe to use at all.

 

[pyro225]

hi all ok so i can get my hand behind the pods on the sides of the boat and feel the foam it feels bone dry? would the water likely climb all the foam or just sit at the bottom?

Sounds silly but as i said on the low one the floor is a lot best condition like new - the resin looks about 1/2 inch thick on top of the boards. on the one the floats higher there is no resin just the wood and carpet - wondered if the rising weight would make a big difference as well?

 

[pyro225]

also the orange (low) one has been anti fouled the blue one has not not sure if that would make any difference?

 

[smokeonthewater]

1/2" of resin on top of the floor would be another big red flag.... no way should that be the case and yeah that would be HEAVY

the surface of the foam would likely be dry... you would need to cut out a big chunk and no water wouldn't climb IE wich up the foam... it would saturate from the bottom up over time

Again the only way to really know it to get it on a trailer and weigh it.... If it weighs hundreds of lbs more than it should then the only recourse id to start gutting it till you find out WHY it weighs so much n put it back right.


hack job rebuild, waterlogged guts.... Jimmy Hoffa under the floor... whatever

 

[pyro225]

ok is that normal to have resin on top of the boards? its very solid - i googled it and there are 3 foam pods i think i can get at them all as mentioned and maybe pull them out.
Does the antifoul make much difference?

 

[smokeonthewater]

I don't know if it's normal to have resin on the floor of that particular boat... Many boats have a skin of glass on the wood floor... Maybe 1/32" thick.

 

[pyro225]

Interesting - the tide is out and I have sen them both today beached and guess what - beached the orange one is the same amount shore (an inch or two) which leads me to believe it cant be a weight issue but maybe glastron adjusted the hull design between 1981 and 1985?