Ballast SAC Draining - Direct Drive

[mcbridek]

I setup a Pro X ballast sac in the rear storage compartment of my 99 Sport Nautique. When I drain the bag (automated out line draws from the lower bag fitting), it will only drain down to about 2 inches because the drain hole in the bag is at that height. 2 inches on a 62 inch long bag is leaving alot of water in the bag. Anyone have any tricks they used to get the bag to fully drain (besides lifting the one end by hand while it is draining)?

[patoloco]

RE: Ballast SAC Draining - Direct Drive

Can you attach a small diameter piece of tube into the actual drain hole so that it will lay on the bottom, inside the bag, to get the last two inches. Referance some of the custom ballast system threads on this site.

..or....and I'm only slightly joking when I say this....put one of those memory foam pillows under the bag on the opposite side of the drain hole...when the bag is full, the pillow will be flattened, when it gets down to two inches, the pillow will expand, pushing the water downhill to the hole....haha..can you tell I'm not an engineer? :razz: