vents

[Geoff C]

Ok so here is my situation. I have noticed that my Naish Mana has been getting a little heavier. I had it on my board rack upside down and noticed that there was water coming out of the deck vent. Not pouring out but very lightly weeping. When I bought the board used the guy told me that the previous owner had screwed the vent plug in cross threaded, and he had taken it to a surf shop and had it put in correctly. Obviously this is still a problem. I do not travel with the board (by air) and it rarely sits out in the sun. I am planning on vacuuming out the water with my vacuum pump. Can I just glass up the vent so that I do not have to worry about leaking? Thanks in advance.
Geoff C.

[Dwight (DW)]

Plug it with epoxy. Install new goretex vent.  Buy the retrofit gore system from foameze

[Fishman]

(deleted) never mind.

[Dwight (DW)]

I pulled a lot of water out of a board once. Shop vac over the ding. Vent removed. Air was whistling thru the vent hole. Lots of water flowing into the shop vac.

You might need a second hole for air inet. Maybe what you drill for the goretex could be the source.

[Geoff C]

Thanks for that Dwight. I will order one this week.