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They should have tried to prop up the rear of the boat once it was beached. The bilge was working but with the stern still taking in water it would never refloat. He says he took a wave over the bow. That water and too many people was too much weight.
Is there an unsealed passage right off of the swim platform like he mentioned in the video? If so....he might be right that the added water weight from the wakes over the bow put that swim platform under water and then the lake rushed right into the engine compartment off the swim deck and it was lights out.
Scarab and Chap scuppers are not like Yammies. I spent an hour trying to figure it out once at boat show and could not figure it out (then needed to stop as the sales person was about to get annoyed).
Maybe someone here has a diagram? I wonder if it could be easily modified - like Yamaha which is very simple and will purge almost any amount of water in seconds. I have never done a submarine but routinely "wash the deck" with 1,000+ lbs of surf ballast from the bags, sometimes ankle high, not a drop ends up in any of the compartments.
Maybe he hit a big wave and his beer bottles in the cooler all broke open due to the impact and the cooler tipper over flooding the boat with beer so he is trying to save the beer.
Years ago if people could not afford their boat they would often set it on fire and collect the insurance ,today they just sink it and collect the insurance.
