Airwaves - my apologies - in a later post I saw you have a '93 550 Sedan Bridge. I read it as a 55DB and assumed you were talking about an '05 55DB which my platform comment referred to.
Airwaves - has your 550DB had a GHSD Lift installed. I thought they were all delivered with a Davit behind the cockpit bench seat. If you have a GHS Lift, we carry a yYamaha VX-110 Deluxe Waverunner in the summers on the lake and an 12' AB Nautica D...
7-10' rode per foot of depth would be more than enough - esp. if you are all chain. When you compute your depth don't forget to ADD your depth to the distance above the water to your pulpit in your calculations. That makes up your total "depth".
EPH - PeterKVS on Club Sea Ray detailed how he fixed his FW tank crack/leak. My dock mate had the same crack in his 400 DA's tank, and cured his problem by only filling the tank to 3/4...