58YF Deck drain

[Victor_Chat]

On our 58 YF (1971) the starboard drain seems to go forward a bit before it goes into the sea chest (I assume that is how it drains, I don't see any other drain holes). The port side seems to go straight down into the sea chest. Has anyone worked on these? I think the starboard is plugged up and it hasn't been easy to get to it to clean it out. I haven't seen where it goes from the inside to check there either.

 

[bigbill]

i have not taken mine apart but i have poured bleach in the drain when it got slow and it solved the problem.
my 58yf has 2 drains per side, one in front and one aft of the wing doors. is this factory? the drain goes to a T then one hose to the seachest

 

[Pascal]

On my 1970 53 MY, there are two drains on each side of the wing doors. The hoses merge into a Y and can be accessed on the starboard side inside the medicine cabinet, on the port side, the hoses are in the hanging closet

 

[SKYCHENEY]

I helped a guy with a 60MY unclog his drains with compressed air. We tried everything else including a coat hanger from the thru hull up but no luck. The air down from the top did the trick.

 

[Victor_Chat]

Thanks for the suggestions, there is only one drain per side so will check for the hoses.

 

[holtcl]

When my drains get bogged down I find that just blasting some water from the hose in there tends to do the job.

Cheryl
Cinderella
1971 53 MY

 

[SEVEN]

Ditto on the blast from the water hose, however I did the blast from the thru hull at the water line and forced the water up. Once I removed the hose the blog came down and stuck just before it was to come out. I used one of those barbed plastic drain cleaner to reach up and pull it down. Hope this helps.