Lockers on swim transom filling with water!

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RonRelyea

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Sep 2, 2009
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Hunter Vision-32 New Hamburg, NY
I've got a Hunter Vision 32 which I dock on the Hudson River. Friday night there was considerable chop all night long and it ended up totally flooding the two lockers on the swim transom. I had the lids of the lockers secured by the integrated tie-down lines cleated in the cockpit lockers above.

Has anyone else experienced this and more to the point, found a viable solution to prevent the flooding?

The lockers are strictly molded fiberglass with a drainage channel around the perimeter - no type of rubber seal or anything like that.

Suggestions?
 
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Steve Dion

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Dec 2, 1999
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Hunter Vision-36 Rio Vista, CA.
Ron: We have not had this problem on our HV'36. I have often thought about putting in a gasket on all of the lazarettes. I think if you get some rolled rubber about .5-.75" wide with a sticky back, you can prevent most if not all of this water entering the lockers.

This is probably a good warning for anyone with the stern lockers.

Check out something like McMaster.com for this type of material.
 
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Rick D

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Jun 14, 2008
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In nine years and plenty of seas, never had a drop. I think Steve's suggestion of serious gasketing is the fix to the problem I never had (and don't now for that matter on my 40.5.)
 
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TheSaltyFly

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Ron
I have a 1994 hunter 29.5. I keep my boat on an open waterway in Maryland that gets a lot of boat traffic and as well as chop from weather on a regular basis. I was slipping my boat with the bow to shore and the stern to traffic and weather as backing a sailboat into a slip can prove to be challenging especially in weather and traffic. I don't normally check or inspect the rear lockers as I only store a back-up anchor and a few buckets in them.
At the end of the season last year I had my boat pulled and put on the hard for winterization. While I was going through boat I discovered that the rear lockers were full of water! There must have been 70 plus gallons in both lockers (both lockers are connected under the swim platform.)
I came to the conclusion that the waves were beating on the stern of the boat and splashing up under the locker hatches and getting into the lockers. I have decided that the best solution is to learn to back my boat into the slip and started doing so this spring.
We have had a lot of rain this year and to date my lockers are dry. I thought about sealing the hatches but was concerned about moisture still getting in and the lockers would be unable to breathe which would create a mold issue. My other thought was to install a small automatic bilge pump to pump the water out but I really didn't want to create more maintenance for myself as well as cut an additional hole in the hull potentially exposing the boat to another location for fitting failure.

Hope this is helpful.
 
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RonRelyea

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Sep 2, 2009
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Hunter Vision-32 New Hamburg, NY
Thanks to all

thanks to all for their responses! I'm now docking with the bow facing upriver. I think that with prevailing winds, current and tide this will result in less water intake. We shall see.

thanks for the mcmasters.com link ...what a web site!

If I continue to get flooded on a regular basis, I may just do the gasket thing
 
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