I recently bought a 97' 320 Voyager in very good shape. On my first trip to go get it ready I noticed a lot of water (5" +) under the port engine compartment. Since bilge is in center of boat it was not pumping out. I thought maybe there would be a plugged up hole or passage from the 'compartment' holding the water under the port engine but could not find one.. I am confident the water poured in there due to a blocked drain in the deck above causing overflow of rain water runoff directly into the compartment (was MAJOR) rain last week... and there was nowhere for it to go.

I manually pumped the water to the bilge compartment but my question is 'shouldn't the water drain out from under the engine automatically if it fills?" Is there a drain hole between each compartment??

Thanks for any insights you may have.

Jeremy