[Rhodes22-list] Jerry's leak

[Michael Meltzer]

I would use the non-toxic water system stuff(pink), the green suff is a real killer.

MJM

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From: "cjlowe" <cjlowe at bright.net>
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Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 5:44 PM
Subject: [ham] Re: [Rhodes22-list] Jerry's leak


> I'm not tring to make this hard,I'm just pretty green about boats,Com-Pac 16
> last year,R-22 this year.Sea Snark -11 for the 20 years before that,not much
> goes wrong with a Styrofoam hull.
> The R22 is slipped all season.Water in the bilge didn't seam to increase
> with increased rain.We had alot of hard rain this year,even after3-4 inches
> in a week,only 1-2 cups in the bilge.I'm slipped in a fresh water lake,so
> the salt test won't work.Tuesday is the first day I looked in the bilge
> since haulout.drained 1.5 cups out then. Looked in there this morning before
> work,looked like maybe 2 tablespoons,stuck a hotel bath towel down the
> pipe,it wicked the whole towel wet by this evening.No rain today.I will
> cover it for the winter,but I want to take out the centerboard first.Any
> thought on the antifreeze idea?Harmful to fiberglass or ballast?
> 
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