[Rhodes22-list] conjecturing on leakage

[Rick]

Joe,

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but spider cracks like that in the
cockpit sole indicate a more insidious problem.  There is probably rot in
the underlying support of the sole.  The water causing the rot may well be
what's leaking into your lazarette, but your problem is more than stopping a
leak.  Pulling up the table leg anchor will be only a small part of that
effort.

Rick

On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Joe Babb <joe.babb at comcast.net> wrote:

> The saga continues.  It's been 36 hours since I poured a gallon of green
> dyed water into the bilge and so far I have only seen a little water
> come into the laz.  Not enough to tell the color.  So either it takes
> time to migrate or, as a couple of people have suggested, it's coming
> from underneath the cockpit floor.  So while we wait I thought I'd
> entertain you with more pictures and also a question about the table leg
> support in the cockpit.  Two people have indicated that they experienced
> leaks under the table leg support that led to the collection of water
> under the cockpit sole.  So I tried pulling the table leg support to
> have a look.  I took out all the screws, but the plate seems to be glued
> down really well to the floor and I hesitate to pry on it and crack the
> glass.  So maybe it is not the problem.
> But in the picture cockpit1.jpg I hope you can see the spider web-like
> crack in the trough at the aft end of the cockpit.  Could water have
> leaked through this crack to end up in the laz?
> I have included a couple more photos of the cockpit drain since one
> person indicated my earlier photos didn't show the problem very well.
> Ideas?
> I'd really like to diagnose the problem if I can before hauling the boat
> all the way to Edenton only to find it was something simple that I could
> have fixed like a leak around the table leg support.
> Joe
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