[Rhodes22-list] Center Board Well Leak
David Walker
david.walker5 at comcast.net
Fri Jul 17 11:27:38 EDT 2009
Rummy,
I know what the lake must look like. My sister and brother-in-law live in
Gainesville GA on Lake Lanier. We were down for a wedding in April and it
was pretty dismal. One nice thing about the ocean, its only going up.
David Walker
www.davidwalkerphotography.com
Event Specialists
781-639-2707 Office
781-718-8690 Cell
----- Original Message -----
From: <R22RumRunner at aol.com>
To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 3:02 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Center Board Well Leak
> David,
> Nope, no Kabooms. RumRunner has been on the hard for a little over a year
> now. Our lake decided to all but disappear and then suddenly reappear this
> spring. Hartwell dropped an amazing 23 feet before the Army Corps decided
> to
> fill it back up. We are still currently four feet below full pool, but
> three years of draught conditions really hurt. I took advantage of the
> low
> water and had her repainted. I have a couple of additional upgrades and
> things
> to take care of and then she will be back in the water.....soon I hope.
> Work seems to be getting in the way of working on her.
>
> Rummy
>
>
> In a message dated 7/14/2009 11:26:44 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> david.walker5 at comcast.net writes:
>
> Rummy,
>
> Glad to be back. BTW how's your gas tank? Any Kabooms yet?
>
> As for the UHMWPE, there is a lot of it on my boat clearly from the
> factory.
> The pop top slider, boom slider and most of the outboard mount. Any way
> thats not the point. I just wanted to let people know what they might
> find.
>
> The kneeling to get the cap off was fun. I used tile layers neepads and
> that helped a lot. The tough part was getting the backing wrench on the
> bolt heads under the flange.
>
>
> David Walker
>
> www.davidwalkerphotography.com
>
> Event Specialists
>
> 781-639-2707 Office
> 781-718-8690 Cell
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <R22RumRunner at aol.com>
> To: <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 4:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Center Board Well Leak
>
>
>> Dave,
>> Welcome back to the list. Finding leaks can be a real problem when there
>> are previous owners possibly involved. I have been inside five
> centerboard
>> trunks over the years and everyone one is different. No two were
>> identical.
>> Previous owners or who knows who had been changes to the pulley systems
>> and
>> parts that operate the centerboard. I can pretty much assure you that
>> the
>> use of UHMWPE was not a factory fix. Glad you were able to make the
>> repair
>> once you knew the problem. Working in that area certainly is not fun.
>> I
>> can't kneel for extended periods anymore. Old age is beginning to take
>> it's
>> toll on my poor abused body.
>>
>> Rummy
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 7/13/2009 3:43:30 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>> david.walker5 at comcast.net writes:
>>
>> Greetings to the list.
>>
>> I haven't been active on the list for a few years but have been
>> actively
>> sailing my boat, Windswept, out of Salem harbor in MA. I re-signed up
>> to
>> share with you all something I found this spring that I think should be
>> brought to all owners attention.
>>
>> For the 11 years I have owned my R22 (bought from Stan in 1998 as
>> recycled) I have been fighting a slow leak. Many helpful suggestions
>> pointed at
>> rainwater leaks, which I did have and were mostly fixed. However there
> was
>> a
>> consistent salt water leak that I could not find. I pretty easily ruled
>> out
>> the thru hulls and was left with the centerboard well. Two years ago I
>> removed the cap and cleaned the mating surfaces, replaced the fender
>> washers and
>> removed a small block that was through bolted to the top of the cap
>> (part
>> of the 4:1 board raising tackle). This didn't make any change.
>>
>> Last summer returning to the boat (at her mooring) after a weeks
> absence
>> I
>> found water about a foot above the sole. The battery was under water
>> and
>> completely shorted out. Its unclear whether the bilge pump failed or
>> the
>> increasing leak rate caused the pump to discharge the battery. Anyway,
>> I
>> limped to the local marina where I winter store, pumped out the bilge
>> with a
>> home sump pump, had an emergency haul and had it blocked for the
> winter.
>> (I
>> was pretty discouraged and was about to leave on a 3 week trip).
>>
>> This spring I resolved to find the leak once and for all. When I opened
>> the boat I found a little rain water in the bilge but nothing was
> leaking
>> out. I filled the bilge to above the cap and a steady trickle started
> to
>> run
>> out of the aft end of the CB slot. I lowered the water with a pump to
>> just
>> below the cap seal and the trickle continued. I lowered the water level
>> to
>> about halfway from the cap to the bilge and the trickle stopped. Very
>> strange. This eliminated the cap seal and the pennant thru hull as a
>> leak.
>>
>> I removed the cap (fun job) and carefully inspected the inside of the
>> well. At the aft end I found a piece of UHMWP in the shape of an upside
>> down V
>> wedged from side to side at the top of the well. My guess is its job is
>> as
>> a seat for the top of the CB when it is up to keep it from moving side
> to
>> side. The critical thing is that this piece was screwed in place with
>> long
>> screws from the top of the piece, diagonally down through the side of
> the
>> well from inside to outside. The tips of the screws were actually
> though
>> the
>> outside of the well about halfway up from the blige to the cap. After
>> years
>> of the board banging into this, the screws had loosened in the fiber
>> glass
>> and I could literally just pull them out with my hand. These screws
>> were
>> loose in their holes had provided literally two holes in the bottom of
>> the
>> boat. I took them out, dried out the area, ground it down and patched
>> with
>> epoxy and two layers of glass inside and out.
>>
>> My point in this post is that this may or may not have been done at the
>> factory and I'm not blaming anyone, but it was present in my hull. If
>> anyone
>> has a slow leak in this area, it would be worthwile to check it out,
> and
>> if
>> you pull your cap for any reason definetely check it. Now I just have
> to
>> finish all those pesky port light rain leaks!!
>>
>>
>> Dave Walker
>>
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