Algae On Hull - Boat Speed Reduced from 60 to 35 mph

[catdude28]

If the bottom is painted with car paint - it points to a cheap repair job. You stated the boat was sold by the dealer as new. Sounds like grounds for a replacement boat due to misrepresentation. Do you have a hull that was damaged, hatchet job repair, and you purchased as new? Proper repair is done with gel. The question is - what don't you know about the hull? Was the damage repaired with glass or bondo - what's under the paint? New hulls don't have any damage to repair. Your problems with this boat go well past algae growth.....

Irrespective of any algae growth issues or not, you have a damaged hull that was not properly repaired. Is this a reputable dealer you bought it from? I would be furious and would want a new hull.

[barbarian]

so how bad was the algae and how long did it take you to clean it? if all this is even real, to lose 20 on a 195 (assuming with a 150 because a 200 will touch 70) the bottom of the boat would have to look like a sea bed and took you a month to clean it off. again if this is not a late aprils fools joke, it has to be water in the boat and it could be from several reasons and almost all of them has nothing to do with the hull leaking. takiing 5 minutes to drain or bilge it out is a lot of water. a 500 gallon/hour bilge running for 5 minutes will pump 40-45 gallons of water which weighs 8.33lbs so that would be about 375 pounds. not sure if that would even be 20mph. it easily could be though depending on where it was resting in the bottom of the hull.

assuming this isn't a joke or fall fishing forum expedition, what dealer sold this boat. i think there is only 1 charger dealer in texas

[haasmon1]

3-5 minutes of water drainage is a lot of water in the bilge...

[dutch boy]

Contact Charger soon. and as questions about the boat. or you can IM touch of class. He maybe able to point you in the rite direction.

[New2Bass]

catdude28
I am furious that the dealer hasn't done anything. He still maintains that algae was the problem.

[New2Bass]

so how bad was the algae and how long did it take you to clean it?
.... assuming this isn't a joke or fall fishing forum expedition, what dealer sold this boat. i think there is only 1 charger dealer in texas

The dealer cleaned the boat and charged me $600: the boat had algae but not that bad after 4 weeks or so. My pontoon which sits in the water all year long is bad, the bass boat algae was mild. Thanks for the info on bilges - I had no idea they pumped that fast.
- This isn't a joke. This was my first bass boat purchase and I haven't laughed yet, and I don't have a punch line.

[New2Bass]

dutch boy
You mean the president of Charger, right?
Thanks