[Rhodes22-list] Mystery of the slow leak in bilge solved

[Ron Finelli]

You can order a centerboard gasket & hardware from Stan at GB.

Take boat out of the water.  Remove all centerboard screws.  Remove old
gasket & clean surface.

In older R22's (my is an '86) had a couple of plastic pieces that helped
center the centerboard when it was up.  (These were located in both port &
starboard sides of centerboard trunk close to the top toward the aft end).
Mine had broken & only screws were left.  One of the screws was leaking.  I
removed both & epoxied holes closed.

While you have things apart - replace centerboard line & tube.

Put new gasket in place (you do not need gasket sealer).  Drill holes
through gasket & centerboard trunk in location where old screws were.

Install bolts & nuts - do not over tighten.

Ron Finelli
S/V Kate Doyle
Eden Prairie, MN
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <LafingBear at aol.com>
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Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 11:03 PM
Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Mystery of the slow leak in bilge solved


> Hey Folks!  I've had a slow leak in the bilge for the last three weeks. I
> checked everything and tightened every screw I could reach. This weekend I
> sponged the bilge dry ,but  after sailing for four hours in some very
choppy waves,
> part wind driven, part motorboat wake, I found about four inches of water
in
> the bilge. There's a slow leak coming from under the lip of the cover on
the
> centerboard trunk. I tightened all of the screws I could reach, but two of
them
> are striped on the top and one of them isn't gripping the fiberglass, just
> turning but not getting tighter. What can I do to stop the leak? Can I
stop the
> leak without taking the boat out of the water? Any and all suggestions are
most
> welcome.
> Jim Gifford
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