Cabin drain hole plug

[thataway]

My boat is a mid 2006 and does not have the built in floor. Some investigation and it appears as if the built in floor was mid 2007. There are reports of water under the floor--some folks had a small hole aft, some even reported a small hole in the cabin. However, apparently there were not supposed to be any holes.

Apparently the two part floor appeared in 2003, and was an option for $450. The solid floor apparently appeared in mid 2007.

[colbysmith]

I just spent all day on my boat, and can't say at this moment what kind of floor I have. I know I have to step over a "splash shield" or bulkhead under the door, between the cockpit and the cabin. When you follow the cockpit back to the aft of the boat, it drops down an inch or so into the aft end under the fuel tanks, and then another inch or so just around the transom drain plug.I would assume a bilge pump needs to be placed there, as that would be the lowest point in the boat when underway. That cockpit floor appears to be caulked at the sides. All this flooring is flat, so apparently raised from the hull. Inside the cabin, I'm thinking the floor is the hull, and is slightly curved. Enter the Vbirth you step up a bit onto a flat floor (which when I cut the storage compartments in on the side under the bunks, you can see is all part of the bunk molding, and there is some space between that and the hull. To my knowledge there is no where for water to drain out or be pumped out from anywhere in front of the cabin door. IOW, if I did put a hole in the bow hull, the water is going to fill the forward half of the boat until it's about 6 inches deep and can run over that bulkhead under the cabin door. The cabins back bulkhead is sealed very well, as I have had an inch or so of water behind the aft cabin bulkhead, from rain or washing the boat with the bow lower than the stern, and the cabin stays dry. Colby

[Sunbeam]

It sounds like (and I would have thought) you have the permanent flat cockpit sole. If you had the "hull" one, it would be obvious as it is simply the inside of the bottom of the boat, and shaped as such. The (optional) floorboards for these models are a pair of fiberglass/molded panels that slip into place and make the cockpit sole flat, but they are not attached in any way, and water is free to run under them.

As an aside, I think I had also noticed (when your boat was for sale, as I was shopping for a 22 at that time) that your boat has the rare, original molded interior. I don't know how many of these were made, but my guess is few.

(The dinette is styled more like that in the 25, wherein the forward facing portside seat footwell is "permanent" and the table - in the 22 - is thus smaller. You can see the remnants of this footwell even in the "modern" molded interior where they changed the molds to make the dinette more like the "stick built" 22, but [it looks like] simply re-worked the molds around that foot area.)

Sunbeam

[colbysmith]

I wish now I would have looked closer at more of the other 22's that were at the Dubuque gathering last year. Under that port aft seat is where the water tank sits, and it appears to be hull as it is curved. Then ahead of that is the molding that continues to the forward bulkhead, with some compartment space and covering doors below the table and in front of the port convertible seat. (The seat back can be reversed to sit either facing the table, or facing forward. OF course this makes for a smaller dinette also, I think.) On the starboard side, there are cupboards under the small stove and sink, and I'm assuming that is hull in there also as it continues to curve inside of the sidewalls from the center floor area.. Then in front of the helm seat is some more molding with a small compartment into the floor/hull area. Any of these areas could possible get wet from items put away wet, or windows left open, etc. But do not appear to be drained anywhere. I'm pretty sure the aft cabin bulkhead does go all the way to the hull floor, and then the cockpit sole is butted up against it.