aigroup wrote:Spoiler alert. New boat with learning owner.
I took my boat out today for the first time to make sure all parts were in working order.
And I think they are.
The rigging is very simple and doesn't seem to have any of the modifications I'm reading about on this blog, but clearly I need to replace the rigging.
There's standing rigging (the "wires") and running rigging (the "ropes").
Which of these have you concluded you need to replace? Standing rigging should be replaced every decade or other decade. Just so that there isn't hidden corrosion that will make it fail. You have a recent boat, from the picture, and it would seem that you would have the beefier 1/8" size and perhaps it's recent enough that it's before the first replacement.
aigroup wrote:Before launching I made sure to put the interior transom plug in.
Hadn't thought I would need to plug the exterior transom hole - because I thought this was only to exhaust the water transmitting through the interior transom drain port.
Clearly this seems not to be the case as when we got the boat back on the trailer a tremendous amount of water exited the exterior drain plug.
I'm not familiar with the details of those recent DS1s. Is there a double hull, or not? If yes, then that needs to be able to drain and perhaps they did make the cockpit drain (inner) go into the bilge to drain from the outer one. You'll be able to figure out more and faster by investigating what you have than we can supply remotely (unless someone shows up who happens to have a boat from your model year).
Does the "exterior" drain appear to be set up to have a drain plug? Is it even inline with the interior one? Or is it not a double hull, only a flotation chamber in the transom? In that case, you definitely do not want to take on water there. Have a look and give us some more details.