Water in the bilge

Cpt. Jon · Aug 25, 2009

Has it rained lately?

Cpt. Jon · Aug 25, 2009

Fresh water hold, hoses, hot water heater, etc leeking? I'm just throwing fresh water stuff out there as possibilities since it's not salty.

Stu Jackson · Aug 25, 2009

There are only a few things that we CAN'T help you with

reasonably efficiently on a message board. Sights, sounds and smells are the worst questions. "Where's my leak coming from?" is not far behind. Identifying it as fresh water leads to, gee, water tanks. But only YOU can rip your boat apart finding where it's coming from, and that's usually the only recourse. If you're looking for sources, we assume you know your boat well enough to know where fresh water could be coming from.

& what fridge condensate? Do you have the bottom of your fridge open so anything that accumulates drains out? Do you realize you have a "self fulfilling prophesy" there: open bottom lets hot air in, creates more moisture in fridge, creating more "runoff." Close the bottom of the fridge avoiding warm moist air from entering in the first place.

zeehag · Aug 25, 2009

check your hot water heater--if it is square, they leak. they only last about a year....then check your other fresh water sources----is easy but difficult to motivate to--i fyou have pressure water, is there a hissing sound anywhere and does your pump run when water is not running....many things to check....goood luck.....

ITMaster · Aug 25, 2009

Do you have a pump to discharge the water from the bottom of the fridge?

For your dripless seal, I might offer what I have found has worked with mine.

On my PSS dripless, I find that occasionally, the face of the adjusting ring that mates up with the graphite seal gets something trapped between those two surfaces, just some kind of debris that will cause it to leak. You can compress the bellows slightly to separate the sealing surfaces apart to to do a quick flush. Sometimes you may want to rotate the shaft to just ensure a good seal between the two of them.

What everyone else said pretty much also.

Benny · Aug 25, 2009

If you don't use the shower, it is probably the fridge.

Franklin · Aug 25, 2009

Just about everything has been said

To add to Benny, the shower sump does have screws in it which can leak.

I wouldn't bet on the frig condensating on the outside and the mosture on the inside is going to end up as frost on the plates, so I wouldn't bet on the frig either. The heaters last more than a year but are known to leak when they get old (that's an easy one to check...if it's moist around it, that's your leak). Now sometimes it's just the pressure value on the heater that's leaking and needs to be replaced.

Just to cover everything, you aren't running the AC or have it set on humidy control do you? My AC dumps about 5 gallons a day into the bildge.

Guest · Aug 26, 2009

Leak

Well done skipper.

Terry Cox

Ross · Aug 26, 2009

Gabor15908 said:
Thanks fellow sailors.....
After spending a crusading hour on my stomach I found out that my shower sump pump was cracked.
The crack was very small and just above the water line.
Just a ‘another” 100 bucks for the sump tank and it will be fixed.

Is it fiber glass and epoxy repairable? It won't cost much to try.

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