[Rhodes22-list] How does all that water find it's way to the bilge.

[Todd Tavares]

Bill,

     My boat, being an older boat (1974) may have a few differences than your boat, but I can tell you about the few sources of water I get in the bilge and laz.  I do not have seat drains. Yours may have been frozen an/or partially blocked by ice causing the gutters to overflow into the laz.

     My boat has an 8" deck plate about 1/4 of the way back from the companion way.  This plate straddles the rear most bulkhead for the cabin and supports the cockpit floor.  I found that my plate leaks because either the plate ring or the o-ring started to leak.  I kept the bow as high as the tongue jack would allow to keep any water from geting to the plate as snow melted.  I also went to the boat after each snow storm and swept and shoveled the snow (with a plastic shovel)from the boat.  If your cockpit table socket is flush mounted and penetrates the cockpit floor this could be another source of water.  

     My cabin sole is out and my bilge only had a teaspoon size puddle which appears to have come in under or around the companion-way hatch.  But because I have no seat drains yet, I got quite a bit of water in the laz.  

Todd




----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Berner <bberner@optonline.net>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:00:17 -0500
To: 'The Rhodes 22 mail list' <rhodes22-list@rhodes22.org>
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] How does all that water find it's way to the bilge.

> It's finally been warm the last few days here in the North East, so I headed
> off to my boat club to check up on my boat.
> 
> I must confess that I never covered it at the end of the season last year -
> just put it on the trailer, parked it where they told me, took off the
> cushions, and expensive stuff from the cabin, and took down the genoa.
> 
> Went back to check things out once before all the snow kicked in.
> 
> Yesterday's inspection was pretty good with one GLARING exception.
> 
> Upon checking the bilge I found water nearly up to the underside of the
> cabin sole.  Now the boats bow is higher than the stern on the trailer, and
> when I looked at the carpet in the aft end of the cabin, I found it was wet.
> Apparently water had even soaked through the sole into the carpet back
> there.
> 
> I have a deck plate in the hole for the nicro vent on the bow.
> 
> I also found some, but not an alarming amount of water in the lazarette.
> 
> There are no signs in the cabin of water having come in from above decks.
> 
> The boat is leaning a bit to starboard on the trailer, and the starboard
> seat drain is stopped up.  The port drain is clear.
> 
> There was no water in the cockpit.  The cockpit drain is clear.
> 
> So how did that volume of water find its way into the bilge?
> 
> Any ideas? Theories and experiences welcomed.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Bill Berner
> 191 South Broadway
> Hastings on Hudson, NY  10706
>  
> v 914 478 2896
> f 914 478 3856
> e BBerner@optonline.net
>  
> 
> 
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