Drain for the Port locker?

[ShawnL]

As I was adding things to the port locker yesterday, I noticed a little bit of water at the very forward end. There's a small lip the length of the locker that looks like it's designed to keep things from rolling over it and going down under the cockpit where you'd really have to work to grab them. The problem is, any water that gets down there and doesn't make it over the lip (and then down to the 'bilge') just sits there. I was considering drilling a small hole under the aft port dinette seat so that the water could drain into the bilge area under the step. But I don't want to drill a hole that I don't need to. I know some models have a bilge pump installed in that locker, but mine (1972) does not. I suppose I could just go sail it and let the water slosh over the lip as well.

Has anyone else tackled this?

 

[sail sfbay]

Some have done this to convert port aft cockpit locker to a fuel locker s discussed in this thread:

Pre-86 C22 fuel locker modification

C22's older than 1986 have the fuel can sittin' under the port aft cockpit seat - connected and exposed to the cabin interior (corrected in later year models). I"m shopping for an older C22 and would like to build in a 'fuel locker' to seal off the fuel can from the cabin. Is this a common...

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[Gene Neill]

I drilled "limber holes" in every compartment that could hold water. I didn't want any water collecting anywhere other than the bilge.

 

[Jacktar]

I put a limber hole in the port lazarette with a screw in cap, works great, only have to open it if water accumulates in there