Leaky Pyranha Boats PSA! Scorch & Ozone Mystery Solved 🕵️ 

Digging into issues with loose bolts and leaky drain plugs on some new Pyranha boats out there. Update and more from Pyranha below. Update: 9/1/2021: Pyranha blog post addressing the issue: www.pyranha.com/blog/product-issue-notification-drain-bung-leakage/ Update 8/30/2021: I removed both drain plug housings and removed the silicone that was present, which was really easy. The silicone used on the two looked different, and neither had enough. The Scorch was worst with not enough to even go all the way around. I added AquaSeal, replaced housing and let sit overnight. I've tested both with 1/2 gallon of water; Ozone leaked a few drops in about an hour (seems good enough), and Scorch didn't leak at all. (Actually Scorch leaked a little from the silicone drain plug itself!, but when I cranked it a little harder it stopped.) Not a difficult process, just a bit of a pain and not something one should have to do on a brand new boat. Also sucks b/c a lot of people just won't know and will deal with leaky boat when they don't have to. Response from Pyranha re Drain Plugs: "I was worried that might be the case with the drain plug. We made adjustments in manufacturing a while back to make sure this wouldn't be an issue in the future, but a decent amount of time passes between the boats leaving the factory and making it into the shops and then to customers where issues like that are really noticed. Fortunately it is a pretty simple fix, the two screws that hold it on are taken out (they screw into the plastic, no backing nuts inside the hull or anything like that) then it can be removed, the old silicone peeled off and resealed with new silicone or aquaseal etc... I know it's far from ideal to have to do any work on a new boat, and we would be glad to fix it if we were somewhere nearby, but unfortunately that isn't typically the case. Seeing as there have been a few reports of this, I'm looking into getting some 2oz tubes of silicone sealant we can send out to in the future to hopefully save some people a trip to the store. I'm just checking with the UK first that the ones I found online are going to be comparable to what they use at the factory."

Well now I know why both my rippers are drenched in water lol. Thanks for the work Kevin!

Thanks for choosing our kayaks, and sorry you've experienced these issues! We have referred the info back to Production and QC to prevent such issues going forward, and have identified that a number of drain bung collars had insufficient sealant around where they fit to the kayak - we will have some instructions out on how to fix the latter this week.

Thank you so much Kevin! This is just what I needed

Love the color schemes on both kayaks. Collecting boats is an addictive passion as well as collecting other pieces of gear such as paddles, PFD’s, etc. the list goes on but it’s definitely a healthier and more beneficial hobby than cocaine and hookers 😂

The last brand new boat I purchased was a Dagger Mamba that I bought in 2014. As soon as I took it out of the plastic I went over all of the bolts and most of them were loose. After tightening things up it's a nice, dry ride. I go over my boats once a year to make sure everything stays tight.

Hey Kevin, love the colour of your new Scorch 👍 nice collection of kayaks think my quiver needs a bit of work 😂

My boats have to be 100% dry, we’ll see with this scorch. I haven’t had it in Whitewater to know. Nice video 👌🏻

You should check the screws for the bulkhead wingnuts

Great video man. I noticed you have a 2013 star/allstar on the end of your quiver there. How do you like it, and how do you find the plastic. I'm not a fan of mine and the plastic is pure trash

My Machno is super leaky. I hope this fixes it! Trying it now!

I thought the water in my Ozone was just from practising rolls, ‘til I watch your video. Looking at video a friend took, it looked like the boat was actually sitting lower in the water. Doing the vertical set-up and a quart of water, I got 1 drop per second. That’s 60 drops per minute, 1800 drops in half an hour. I don’t want that. Aquaseal on order. Thanks for the video and follow-up info.

Had issues with my Ripper all the bolts were loose and the drain plug leaked like crazy. Tightened and siliconed bolt and drain plugs.

Shoulda bought a Jackson… no holes through the boat besides the cockpit itself.