[Rhodes22-list] I'm Wet! (no sex)

[Mary Lou Troy]

Joe,
If the water got in to the boat and then was sloshed around, that 
could also account for the wet things in the cabinet. Once water was 
in the boat, I would expect everything to be soaked from a 
combination of wave action and condensation. As Rummy mentioned, on 
Fretless, we do keep most everything on the boat in plastic (pictures 
attached of storage in the galley and in the head). Just the 
condensation, particularly in the spring and fall is enough to get 
things pretty damp (but wouldn't account for 25 gallons of water).

The side ports should be fairly easy to test with a hose if you can 
bring the boat into a dock. Also you said you have front opening 
ports, were they seated properly and latched securely? The angle of 
the cabin wall keeps those ports from being rainproof unless they are 
securely latched and the gaskets are clean. We've had things get 
pretty wet in the v-berth from an ordinary rainstorm when one of the 
opening ports wasn't properly closed. If your v=verth stayed dry(er) 
that's probably not a source.

If you indeed had 3 1/2 inches of rain up there (we got no rain in RH 
though we did get some of the wind), it is possible that combined 
with the straightline 50-60 mph winds (and higher gusts) that most of 
the water simply blew in under the pop-top and/or the pop-top slider. 
The pop-top usually does a great job of keeping water out of the 
boat, but if the boat is heeled somewhat because of the wind, the 
strong winds might drive water over the edge of the lip and as Mike 
mentioned about sailing in the NC sounds, when you take repeated 
water over the bow and up onto the cabin top, it sometimes gets into 
the cabin. Because your boat is on a mooring and the winds were 
straightline, I'm thinking that most of the action on your boat was 
hobby-horsing fore and aft from the waves. that might have helped 
water get under the pop-top or the pop-top slider as well.

Mary Lou


>-----Original Message-----
>From:  rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org
>[mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces at rhodes22.org] On Behalf Of Joe Camp
>Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2012 12:17 PM
>To: The  Rhodes 22 Email List
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] I'm Wet! (no  sex)
>
>Dennis:
>
>I may have experienced the same  situation. In some downpours, my seat
>drains have become overwhelmed, and  water has spilled into the laz... but
>not made it to the bilge.  In  THIS event, articles in my cabinet were
>soaked, and the water had not risen  to that level.  That's why I think that
>at least some of the water  came from the starboard ports, ran down the
>interior wall of the hull,  soaked my articles in the cabinet then went
>(based on the irreversible laws  of physics) to the bilge.
>
>Rummy doesn't  believe that so much water could come in through the
>ports, and he may be  right given his long experience with the boat's
>design;
>but I think that at  least some did.  This was, after all, a unique weather
>event, and the  physical evidence points, in part, to those starboard ports.
>No matter, the  final  result is the same, and I have to dry out my cabin.
>I
>will start sealing things up and hope I get the culprit-source  before the
>next monster blow.  Muchas gracias mis amigos.
>
>Joe  Camp
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