[Rhodes22-list] Fwd: water in the bilge

[Jim Connolly]

Is all or part of the centerboard pennant hose below the waterline? Could tension on the pennant with the board up distort the hose and cause a leak, that isn't leaking with the pennant slacked?  Could the weight of the board (in the up position)  hanging from the block on the underside of the cap be opening up a crack or seam?

I doubt these are the culprit, but it's the only thing I can think of.  

I have had the board out and trunk open to paint. The board doesn't fit tightly enough in the trunk to seal a leak either up or down.

Good luck.  If I were you, I would pull up some of the floor, sprinkle some baby powder, raise the centerboard, and see what happens. 

Jim Connolly
s/v Inisheer
'85 recycled '03

R22RumRunner at aol.com wrote:

>I don't get it either. Whether the centerboard is up or down has nothing to 
> do with water migrating into the bilge. Something else is going on here.
> 
>Rummy
> 
> 
>In a message dated 8/1/2012 8:13:40 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
>r22yankeeclipper at hotmail.com writes:
>
>
>Cary,I don't get that one at all......BK
>> Date: Wed, 1  Aug 2012 14:50:26 -0400
>> From: retiredtoby at gmail.com
>> To:  rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org
>> Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Fwd: water in  the bilge
>> 
>> FYI ...... Follow up. Water in the bilge.
>>  The information I received from  a Catboat owner at the local marina  
>seems
>> to have relieved the problem.
>> By lowering the  centerboard it seems to have stopped the water entry, at
>> least while  parked at the slip. Released the centerboard Saturday and as 
>of
>>  Wednesday the bilge was very dry.
>> 
>> Cary
>>  Radford,VA
>> Whisper
>> On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 8:59 PM, PBR  <pbryanriley at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> > My boat came with a  shore power plug in the cabin wall just above the
>> > head.   Nothing electrical hooked up, just there for future stuff I
>> >  guess.  Previous owner thought some of the hoses leaked.  Turned  out
>> > that in a heavy rain or trailering in the rain, a lot of  water found
>> > its way in through that plug.  It was snug to  the outside wall but the
>> > cover did not seal well.  I wrapped  electrical tape around the
>> > outside, stopping the lid from  opening, but also the rain.  No trouble
>> > in two years  since.
>> > -PBR
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