[Rhodes22-list] conjecturing on leakage

Mon Aug 10 12:39:19 EDT 2009

Hey, Lee,

Perfect for overnight on the boat...

Actually I might overnight in the cockpit on Hartwell, at 71 degrees and a breeze - Life is Good!

Art

-----Original Message-----
>From: "KUHN, LELAND" <LKUHN at cnmc.org>
>Sent: Aug 10, 2009 12:29 PM
>To: The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] conjecturing on leakage
>
>
>Art,
>
>I just checked The Weather Channel and by 6:00 p.m. this evening the
>temperature will be down to 99 degrees and the wind will be up to 8 mph.
>With the high humidity I might actually work up a bit of a glow.  I'll
>let you know if the boat starts to melt.
>
>Lee
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Arthur H. Czerwonky [mailto:czerwonky at earthlink.net] 
>Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 10:35 AM
>To: The Rhodes 22 Email List
>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] conjecturing on leakage
>
>Joe,
>
>Good strategy for finding a HULL leak, agreed.  In this case, remember
>that the leak could be originating from inside the cockpit, which I
>think is your current theory, then accumulating in the laz area.  The
>only way to prove or disprove this is to put water into the cockpit well
>with the drain plugged, first from the top, then from the hull opening
>at the bottom.  The only way to do this, of course, is with the boat on
>the trailer and out of the water, thereby isolating the variables.  We
>are all trying to be of help to you.  Using either or both of these test
>methods will require having the boat out of the water, so no additional
>grief on your part.  The cockpit test might be a less intrusive start.  
>
>BTW,  before you drain the water out, jump in to refresh yourself, it
>will be 90 degrees, pm thunderstorms, in Knoxville today.
>
>Best to you,
>
>Art
>
>-----Original Message-----
>>From: David Walker <david.walker5 at comcast.net>
>>Sent: Aug 10, 2009 10:00 AM
>>To: The Rhodes 22 Email List <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] conjecturing on leakage
>>
>>I concur.  That was the only way I tracked down my CB well leak.  Might
>
>>argue about the statement about never leaking though!! lol.
>>
>>
>>David Walker
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>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "stan" <stan at rhodes22.com>
>>To: "The Rhodes 22 Email List" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 9:57 AM
>>Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] conjecturing on leakage
>>
>>
>>> OK, all you detectives.   I have trouble getting this notion across
>but in
>>> my limited experience (since our boats never leak below the water
>line) I
>>> find that you can not pin down any leak by seeing where water seems
>to be
>>> coming into the boat by observations from inside the hull.   You must
>see
>>> where water is leaving the hull by looking at the outside of the
>hull.
>>> This exit strategy is the most positive detection work I have ever
>found.
>>> Find the place where water is dripping out of the hull and plug it
>and the
>>> problem gets solved  -  or call me in the evening.
>>>
>>> ss
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Mike Cheung" <mikecheung at att.net>
>>> To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
>>> Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 9:27 AM
>>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] conjecturing on leakage
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is quite the mystery.  Your dye tracer experiment seems to rule
>out
>>>> the
>>>> bilge, your in water experience seems to rule out the lower nozzle
>on the
>>>> center drain, and the upper nozzle seems unlikely since it shouldn't
>be
>>>> all
>>>> that wet for all that long under most circumstances.  Besides, it if
>was
>>>> the
>>>> upper nozzle and it was cracked badly enough to let much water into
>the
>>>> laz,
>>>> a bucket or garden hose test in the cockpit should turn up that leak
>>>> easily
>>>> enough.  I suppose you could try another dye tracer test from the
>rear
>>>> cockpit by plugging the center drain outlet and putting a couple
>gallons
>>>> of
>>>> dyed water in the aft cockpit.
>>>>
>>>> This is useful vicarious troubleshooting experience for all of us
>with
>>>> older
>>>> hulls!  Do keep us posted.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Joe Babb wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Guys,
>>>>> This is not water from a heavy rain coming in over the laz hatch
>>>>> opening.  I don't know the source of the water yet, but it is most
>>>>> assuredly leaking from the base of the center through hull and
>>>>> collecting in the laz.
>>>>> Joe
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