Nice thing about a 12' or 14' rowboat is how winterizing it can be accomplished by simply removing everything from the boat and rolling it over, upside down, so it sheds the rain and the snow can get removed if too heavy for the boat.
When storing a 16'-18'-20' boat under a tarp in your driveway for the winter, it seems like water will always find a way to get into the boat and down into the bilge. Once it freezes in the bilge it can damage the hull or damage a bilge pump.
What to do? I've installed a nylon threaded drain plug and flange on the outside, bottom of the hull on a 16' Alumacraft with a 40-hp outboard in the middle of the bilge area , about one foot distance from the transom.
And, it works pretty good after five years ..... so far so good ...... and rain or melting snow that gets into the boat will drain down and out this lower drain hole.
This has got to be the greatest boat bilge, drain plug installation, in the world history of boat bilge drain plugs ...... ever, ever, ever made ..... ever!
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