water is entering ( seeping really ) around keel basin, it appear the fiberglass is cracking ?? Any suggestion on a fix while in the water ?
25 water entering around keel pan area
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Can you see a crack? I have a weeping though-hull under the v-berth that drains into the bilge, making me think there was a leak around the CB cable pipe.
Try completely drying the bilge so you can narrow down exactly where the water is coming in. Remember that the entry point on the outside may not be near where it's coming into the bilge: it can migrate through the laminates for quite a distance before showing up in an interior crack.
Try completely drying the bilge so you can narrow down exactly where the water is coming in. Remember that the entry point on the outside may not be near where it's coming into the bilge: it can migrate through the laminates for quite a distance before showing up in an interior crack.
One on my friends used the new West System Six 10 Adhesive on the keel of his O'Day 30 with great results.
http://www.westsystem.com/ss/six10-thickened-epoxy-adhesive
I have the same problem. Seems to be coming from the starboard bow corner of the port bilge section, and / or from a crack about 2" off the bilge botom, and 6" from the bow vertical section of the bilge. I used an epoxy putty stick which worked pretty well, but the water was migrating around under it with just enough force to create "bubbles" in the putty. I let that harden, broke open the bubbles nd packed them with 4000, then smeared 4000 over the whole thing, and that has really slowed it down. Am thinking of getting in there after pullout this Fall and grinding the whole thing out to see what is going on in there. I have the feeling that it will take me into the centerboard trunk which means jacking it off the trailer.....fun, fun. fun!
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