I have a problem every time I use ice in the box on my 1985 28.5. Melted ice drains into the upper (aft) section of the bilge, and tends to not flow very well to the lower bilge where the pump is. The problem is when sailing on any degree of heel the water sloshes out the side seems of the cabin sole and makes a real mess. Is the ice box supposed to drain into the bilge? Why does the water take so long to make its way to the lower bilge area where it can be pumped out? Anybody know a fix for this annoying problem?
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Scott: I am not familiar with your model. Most of these boats have a liner. The drain hose should have been routed to the bilge. This would have allow the water to drain directly into the primary bilge. The problem is the fact that the hose/drain is short of the bilge and drain behind the liner. If you can figure a way to install a hose that goes from the icebox drain all the way to the bilge, half of your problem will be resolved. If there were a way to do it on these boats you could connect the hose to a sump and then pump it overboard. The other thing that can be done is to hook this hose to a pump that can be pumped overboard or into the sink or some other spot other than the bilge. You are not alone with this problem.
Scott: I am not familiar with your model. Most of these boats have a liner. The drain hose should have been routed to the bilge. This would have allow the water to drain directly into the primary bilge. The problem is the fact that the hose/drain is short of the bilge and drain behind the liner. If you can figure a way to install a hose that goes from the icebox drain all the way to the bilge, half of your problem will be resolved. If there were a way to do it on these boats you could connect the hose to a sump and then pump it overboard. The other thing that can be done is to hook this hose to a pump that can be pumped overboard or into the sink or some other spot other than the bilge. You are not alone with this problem.
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Mike
Hunter diagram
According to my Hunter 28.5 manual, the plumbing drawing shows a flexible drain hose leading from the ice box into the primary bilge area (where the pump is). That, of course, does not make it so. If it is so, then maybe the hose is broken underneath the sole. Short of taking up the sole to see what's what, you might just try something simple like a length of rubber hose that you can cock with some sort of valve and just manually drop the hose end into the bilge when you need to drain the box. You could stow the hose under the sink, or under the stove. I have not used my ice box since buying this old boat last year. I would not be shocked to find I have the same problem. I do share your problem with the aft ribs of the bilge...water that collects there (in my case I have a fresh water galley piping leak in that area) takes for frigging ever to seep into the bilge. Very very annoying. I keep a very small wet/dry vac aboard to suckup water that collects there. Next off season I am going to replace my sole for reasons unrelated to this issue. I am very curious about what I am going to find under there. And if I can improve the flow of water to the bilge sump, you can bet your booties I will. Do you know if your head shower "sump" drains directly into the bilge sump or does it flow into the aft bilge areas? The plumbing diagram shows a similar flexible tube running from the head floor to the bilge sump.
According to my Hunter 28.5 manual, the plumbing drawing shows a flexible drain hose leading from the ice box into the primary bilge area (where the pump is). That, of course, does not make it so. If it is so, then maybe the hose is broken underneath the sole. Short of taking up the sole to see what's what, you might just try something simple like a length of rubber hose that you can cock with some sort of valve and just manually drop the hose end into the bilge when you need to drain the box. You could stow the hose under the sink, or under the stove. I have not used my ice box since buying this old boat last year. I would not be shocked to find I have the same problem. I do share your problem with the aft ribs of the bilge...water that collects there (in my case I have a fresh water galley piping leak in that area) takes for frigging ever to seep into the bilge. Very very annoying. I keep a very small wet/dry vac aboard to suckup water that collects there. Next off season I am going to replace my sole for reasons unrelated to this issue. I am very curious about what I am going to find under there. And if I can improve the flow of water to the bilge sump, you can bet your booties I will. Do you know if your head shower "sump" drains directly into the bilge sump or does it flow into the aft bilge areas? The plumbing diagram shows a similar flexible tube running from the head floor to the bilge sump.
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don robinson
ice box drain
if you take an make sump box with a pump an have all the water from shower an ice box go to it an tie it to the bulge pump out you won't have any water in the bulge try it out. seadog
if you take an make sump box with a pump an have all the water from shower an ice box go to it an tie it to the bulge pump out you won't have any water in the bulge try it out. seadog
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red coles
petcock
I have a 27' and had same problem. Solved it by connecting an extension from flexible drain hose with hard plastic pipe, thru sink cabinet wall, with a plastic valve (home depot) in series behind locker door. I now drain ice box into a pan and pour down sink as needed. Have drank same, but don't reccomend it. Good luck red
I have a 27' and had same problem. Solved it by connecting an extension from flexible drain hose with hard plastic pipe, thru sink cabinet wall, with a plastic valve (home depot) in series behind locker door. I now drain ice box into a pan and pour down sink as needed. Have drank same, but don't reccomend it. Good luck red
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Dennis
Pump It
I connected the ice box drain in-line to a pump and pump it into the galley drain. This keeps the bildge dry.
I connected the ice box drain in-line to a pump and pump it into the galley drain. This keeps the bildge dry.
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Debra B
Don't drain to the bilge
Sooner or later you will spill something (or the chicken/steaks will leak some "juice") and then your boat will smell. Find some way to keep this stuff out of the bilge! Pump to sink drain, etc.
Sooner or later you will spill something (or the chicken/steaks will leak some "juice") and then your boat will smell. Find some way to keep this stuff out of the bilge! Pump to sink drain, etc.
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Michael Mathis
How do you get to the drain?
I like the rest have the same problem. Last year I replaced my sole and could not find or did not take the time to try and repair that problem. The hose to the ice box must have or the box itself is leaking because my hose goes right to my bilge. Where do I gain access to the ice box drain. It looks like I would have to remove the panel behind the galley which is actually in the aft cabin. Your help is apprectiated as usual. Mike
I like the rest have the same problem. Last year I replaced my sole and could not find or did not take the time to try and repair that problem. The hose to the ice box must have or the box itself is leaking because my hose goes right to my bilge. Where do I gain access to the ice box drain. It looks like I would have to remove the panel behind the galley which is actually in the aft cabin. Your help is apprectiated as usual. Mike
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Jim McCue
What about lifting the sink
Just a thought..... I think that there's a fiberglass bulkhead to the left of the cubicle under the stove so that's not an avenue to the icebox.. so maybe you gotta detach the waterlines and lift the sink to try get to the ice box. Or cut an access hole right side under the sink. What I find on my 28.5 is that the exhaust hose of the sink "trap" loop goes almost as high as the sink top before going over the right wall of the undersink cubicle. Doesn't make for much drainage but there's where you may want to tap into the sink drain hose... if you go that "pump out" route. Jim McCue
Just a thought..... I think that there's a fiberglass bulkhead to the left of the cubicle under the stove so that's not an avenue to the icebox.. so maybe you gotta detach the waterlines and lift the sink to try get to the ice box. Or cut an access hole right side under the sink. What I find on my 28.5 is that the exhaust hose of the sink "trap" loop goes almost as high as the sink top before going over the right wall of the undersink cubicle. Doesn't make for much drainage but there's where you may want to tap into the sink drain hose... if you go that "pump out" route. Jim McCue
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