[Rhodes22-list] water in the laz

[Rick]

Joe,

Have you tightened all your hose clamps?

Rick

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Joe Babb <joe.babb at comcast.net> wrote:

> Hello All,
> I've written to Stan about this, but either my email got lost, didn't
> get through, he's still having trouble with comcast, or he's busy making
> boats.
> I'm hoping you have a recommendation for my latest problem.  I have
> attached a couple of jpegs of the interior of the laz.
> The boat is sitting on the trailer at an angle with the stern downhill.
> If you look in laz_1.jpg you can see I've circled the through hull of
> the cockpit drain.  It looked for all the world like water was seeping
> out around the through hull.  It trickled down and puddled in the aft
> part of the laz.  But there was no water in the cockpit so it wasn't
> leaking around the hose.  I kept sponging it up each day and next day
> more would appear.  The boat is covered, by the way so it wasn't from rain.
> I finally took a video camera and looked under the cabin sole down along
> the centerboard and could see a puddle of water at the end.  So the
> water is seeping ever so slowly under the cockpit floor and coming out
> around the through hull into the laz.
> First question is:  Should I worry about this?  It is an aggravation
> because I don't like water standing in the laz to create mold and also
> the paint in the laz is peeling as you can see in the photo.  I am a
> little concerned about water staying between the cockpit and hull.  I'm
> guessing there is floatation  under the cockpit floor.
> Next question is: What should I do?  In Laz_2.jpg you hopefully can see
> that there appears to be no opening at the base of the cockpit.  The
> base of the cockpit is glassed to the floor of the laz.  I have heard
> from the list that in older boats the laz was open to underneath the
> cockpit floor.  Was this boat modified?
> I can see a leftover washer through some of the resin.  Makes me wonder
> about the work.  I've heard of people glassing up the openings between
> the cockpit and laz and cabin.  Should I drill a hole just under the
> cockpit floor to let the water out more quickly?   Should I leave it
> alone and live with it?  Seeing water seep from around the throughhull
> makes me worry about the integrity of the throughhull although I don't
> see any seepage when we are in the water.
> Joe
> "Harmony" 2000 recycled 2008
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