[Rhodes22-list] conjecturing on leakage

[stan]

OK, all you detectives.   I have trouble getting this notion across but in 
my limited experience (since our boats never leak below the water line) I 
find that you can not pin down any leak by seeing where water seems to be 
coming into the boat by observations from inside the hull.   You must see 
where water is leaving the hull by looking at the outside of the hull. 
This exit strategy is the most positive detection work I have ever found. 
Find the place where water is dripping out of the hull and plug it and the 
problem gets solved  -  or call me in the evening.

ss

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Cheung" <mikecheung at att.net>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] conjecturing on leakage


>
> This is quite the mystery.  Your dye tracer experiment seems to rule out 
> the
> bilge, your in water experience seems to rule out the lower nozzle on the
> center drain, and the upper nozzle seems unlikely since it shouldn't be 
> all
> that wet for all that long under most circumstances.  Besides, it if was 
> the
> upper nozzle and it was cracked badly enough to let much water into the 
> laz,
> a bucket or garden hose test in the cockpit should turn up that leak 
> easily
> enough.  I suppose you could try another dye tracer test from the rear
> cockpit by plugging the center drain outlet and putting a couple gallons 
> of
> dyed water in the aft cockpit.
>
> This is useful vicarious troubleshooting experience for all of us with 
> older
> hulls!  Do keep us posted.
>
>
> Joe Babb wrote:
>>
>> Guys,
>> This is not water from a heavy rain coming in over the laz hatch
>> opening.  I don't know the source of the water yet, but it is most
>> assuredly leaking from the base of the center through hull and
>> collecting in the laz.
>> Joe
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