About a week ago, I spent the morning washing a winter's worth of grime off of the deck of our 2007 H41AC using a hose and regular nozzle. A lot of the deck required scrubbng with a stiff bristle brush but I got most of the grime off of the deck. I used the hose to direct a stream of water at the plastic piece that, I assume, surrounds the hull-to-deck joint and has a stainless steel rub rail strip on the outer edge. A lot of gunk washed up and out of the place where that plastic piece meets the deck molding as well as where the stainless rub rail strip meets the plastic.
The attached photo shows the rub rail that I'm referring to with a yellow line around it. My assumption is that this covers the hull-to-deck joint.
Today, we were at the boat doing some cleaning in preparation for an upcoming outing and we found a mass of black gunk on the outboard side of the aft shower as well as a smaller spot of gunky runniness down the vanity wall, also on the outboard side. Both of these surfaces are at the upper part of the hull where it meets the deck so I suspect that the joint is where the gunk came from. As far as I know, the gunk was not there before the boat washing episode but I could be wrong. Also, the bilge has been nearly bone dry all winter and today when I checked it there is a small amount - maybe a pint or so that wasn't there a week or so ago and it hasn't rained much in the intervening time.
I suspect that there may be a leak in the hull-to-deck joint and my relatively vigorous spraying of the rub rail may have caused a water incursion. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone that has had a hull-to-deck joint leak on a Hunter and how it was remedied.
The attached photo shows the rub rail that I'm referring to with a yellow line around it. My assumption is that this covers the hull-to-deck joint.
Today, we were at the boat doing some cleaning in preparation for an upcoming outing and we found a mass of black gunk on the outboard side of the aft shower as well as a smaller spot of gunky runniness down the vanity wall, also on the outboard side. Both of these surfaces are at the upper part of the hull where it meets the deck so I suspect that the joint is where the gunk came from. As far as I know, the gunk was not there before the boat washing episode but I could be wrong. Also, the bilge has been nearly bone dry all winter and today when I checked it there is a small amount - maybe a pint or so that wasn't there a week or so ago and it hasn't rained much in the intervening time.
I suspect that there may be a leak in the hull-to-deck joint and my relatively vigorous spraying of the rub rail may have caused a water incursion. I'd be interested in hearing from anyone that has had a hull-to-deck joint leak on a Hunter and how it was remedied.
