: My newly built Gentry Disko Bay has next-to-no freeboard in the aft
: - starting at the midway point of the cockpit. The poly skin has
: four good coats of oil paint and you can't make out any weave
: patterns. The fabic at the cockpit coaming is stapled tight to a
: baseplate. A good seal of Marine Goop is sandwiched in between
: the coaming and the plate. The coaming is screwed down bar tight
: to the coaming with no chance of leaking. I just bought a new
: Seals Shocker sprayskirt (my old Shocker was Aquaseal-ed to
: death and was leaking) that is very snug to my stomach and and
: fits the coaming tightly. I also have a tight tunnel on my
: drysuit.

: YET - after an hour of rolling and playing in the waves, I had
: about 3/4" of water sitting in the bottom of the boat -
: enough to affect stability in the waves!!

: My question is how much water do others get in their boats -
: especially those paddling "submarines" like mine? I do
: pretty much all my turning with aggressive edging (a technique
: that works incredibly well with my Point Bennett) so my cockpit
: is pretty much continuously underwater. Paddling in 3 ft waves
: just puts it that much more under water. With each strong paddle
: stroke the aft deck/rear coaming gets pushed to water level.

: I'm going to make some small adjustments to my pump to allow it to
: get down between the seat slats but I'm curious if there's
: something I can do to reduce the amount of water getting into
: the boat OR is this just the norm and I'll have to live with?

: Cheers,
: Sean

Try putting the boat up on stands, partially filling it with water, then tipping it and looking for leaks. If the outside is dry to start, any leaks should be easy to spot with about 3-5 gallons in the boat.

Good luck!
StephenHJ