[Rhodes22-list] Barney's water

[Rik Sandberg]

My experience with water in the seats was:

The seats are a bit higher in the rear than the front in relation to the 
cockpit floor. Check it out with your 8 gallon Rubbermaids. They will slide 
under the seats with a bit of room to spare at the rear of the cockpit. At 
the front, you have to lift on the seats a bit to get them to go under. So, 
if the cockpit floor is level, the seats slant forward just a bit.

Also, I my centerboard lifting line had one of those little stopper balls 
on it. If I let the ball sit down tight to the hole in the gutter, it would 
stop the water from draining through there. I also found, like Slim, that I 
needed to move the line a bit once in a while to move whatever little bit 
of junk might have accumulated down there and make room for the water to 
flow through.

After a rain, I would always have a bit of water in the front part of the 
seat gutter. Usually pulling the centerboard up a bit, then cleating it so 
the stopper ball didn't cover the hole would drain this water just fine. I 
didn't have a lip around this hole though.

Maybe take a dremel and remove the lip??? Don't know why you'd need a lip 
there.

Rik

At 11:42 AM 2/25/2004, you wrote:
>My centerboard line / drain does not drain well either, but if I take the
>line out of the cleat and move it up and down a little the water runs out.
>I don't have a 1/4" lip around it.  Fandango is a 1990 and it seems to
>collect water there no matter how the gear is loaded.  But more importantly,
>the water on the cockpit floor drains aft, so I doubt the boat itself is
>tilting forward. If I stand on the transom, the water in the seat gutters
>will SLOWLY roll aft, but it just never seemed to be a very big problem.
>The bigger issue is to make sure the boat tilts back and drains when it's on
>the trailer, i.e., jack the tongue high enough.
>Slim
>
>On 2/25/04 9:13 AM, "Kroposki" <kroposki at innova.net> wrote:
>
> > Steve,
> > That drain by the centerboard line does not always drain good.
> > Mine has a lip of about 1/4" that prevents all water from draining.  The
> > previous owner of my boat drilled holes in the seat gutter on each side
> > to solve this problem.  He only created a greater problem.  For a while
> > I had water getting into the cabin near the centerboard drain.  An
> > inspection showed that the centerboard tubing was in good shape and not
> > the cause of the problem.  One day a quick and heavy rain shower put me
> > in the cabin during the rain.  An inspection under the starboard edge
> > during the rain showed water siphoning along the edge from under the
> > seat then dripping down.  I put tubes in the holes to drain the water
> > into the cockpit and problem has stopped.  My boat inherently tilts a
> > couple of degrees forward.  Since mine is an '84, maybe he has the same
> > problem.  I do not believe it affects the sailing.
> > Ed K
> >
> >
> >
> >
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