more on companionway leak
Brad, your description of the location of your companionway leak isn't crystal clear--I can't tell if you mean something is dripping down from the ceiling under the sliding hatch or from the lower edge of the doorway--but, barring a crack in the fiberglass, the possible avenues for water would be: --screw holes. The plastic board material used as strips under the sliding hatch was not uv resistant and cracks at the screw holes, possibly allowing water to dribble into the ceiling liner. Also, the wooden rails covering the hatches have screws capped with wood, but these seem an unlikely source. Unfortunately, removing the rails to repair either type of screw is difficult because you do a lot of damage to the wooden rails trying to remove them. It's possible to remove and replace the plastic rail slides as far as the edge of the sealed hatch cover without removing hatches, which should be sufficient (since the material under the cover is probably shielded from uv enough to have not cracked). --cockpit port. Except for a small epoxy ring the inner and outer liner walls in the vicinity of the cockpit port are hollow. Any water that penetrates the port could dribble down and eventually spill onto the quarterberth. It may seem like it's coming from the threshold of the companionway if you're not expecting a port leak.
