One of the most confusing and frustrating things for me since coming to trawlers is how most of the production boats of the era seem to vary in design quality, but even more so in shop to shop and daily build.
Most of these hulls from the 70's and 80's are still pretty sea worthy, but then were finished off with things like scrap wood under the teak decks, screwed down and not adequately sealed. Or, in your case, venting without proper water traps and an engine totally mis-matched for a trawler. Though, granted, I guess it could have been the idiocy of the original buyer. I have seen this sort of thing in varying degrees of thoughtlessness on numerous boats that I have looked at as well as my own.
Just cannot get over how they got so many things right and then blew it with some of the finer details.
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