[Rhodes22-list] conjecturing on leakage

[David Walker]

I concur.  That was the only way I tracked down my CB well leak.  Might 
argue about the statement about never leaking though!! lol.


David Walker

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "stan" <stan at rhodes22.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 9:57 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] conjecturing on leakage


> 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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>>
>> -----
>> Mike Cheung
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