[Rhodes22-list] boat full of water, please help

[Lou Rosenberg]

Alan,
As a project boat owner, with a damaged CB trunk due to water flowing 
in from leaky portlights and  poor tarping , mainly due to negligence 
from the previous owner,  I would drain the water asap, and examine the 
CB flange that is the part that sticks out above the bilge.  I would 
inspect the junction of your bilge floor where it meets the flange and 
if  its cracked and filled with holes, the interior of your trunk now 
has water in which will swell the laminate and make it VERY difficult 
or Impossible for you to move the CenterBoard (CB).

  Hopefully this has NOT occurred to your boat as yet.


This is my problem and I am almost at the end of my job of removing the 
bad cement ballast that swelled after cutting away the swollen laminate 
inside my CB trunk with a dremel attached to a flex drive.
It has been a 6 month project doing it part time (1-2 days a week)  
Yesterday in fact I had  to remove the pivot slots which hold the pivot 
pin and completely reinforce the laminate with new epoxy and glass 
tape.  Now I have to rebond the 2 slots back into the cement and add 
the patches of epoxy laminate I bought online to fill the areas where 
my laminate was corrupted.

  feel free to email me directly if you want to get more details on what 
this type of damage can do to other parts of the boat!
  Lou
  project boat " Rhodes 2 Recovery"

  lsr3 at nyu.edu





On Wednesday, July 27, 2005, at 09:36 AM, sugargroveumc at bright.net 
wrote:

> Hello All,
> I need help. As some of you know I am restoring a 1976 Rhodes 22. I 
> have only been at it for a few weeks. When I began I knew nothing 
> about boat construction and I still know very little.
> Before we owned the boat it had been sitting on the trailer in the 
> boat yard for three years untouched.
> At this point all of the decorative teak and some of the structural 
> teak has been removed, the lining has been removed from the walls, the 
> hull is gutted, and I cut out all four of the rotted stringers as well 
> as the one rotting bulkhead. Everything else has been removed as well. 
> There is nothing in the cabin but the foam and the front bulkhead.
> I say all this because it rained at our house last night and I wanted 
> to experiment a little bit. I put the hatch up and closed the pop top 
> making it as tight as I could. However, I did not put the tarp over 
> it. I wanted to see if water would get in.
> It did
> I awoke this morning to find a good three inches of water in the 
> lowest portion of the boat around the keel and center board housing.
> There is no weather stripping, and the windows may need to be re 
> sealed but they did not show signs of moisture. The port side drain in 
> the gunnels was clogged so I assume that water backup and went in 
> through the opening where the centerboard drop line runs. There is a 
> hose there with fittings but it may be leaky.
> I feel that I can not progress in the restoration process until I find 
> out where the water is coming form.
> Does any one have any other suggestions?
> Alan
>
>
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