I expect that very few have the patience to read this?
But I think that I may have found the primary cause of ingress of water.
As I suspected (one of my many suspicions) it was water running either
directly through the "hawse pipe" for the anchor chain (or perhaps
penetrating through the deck fittings in that area of fore-deck).
When I applied a power-hose to the hawse pipe this afternoon (while tied
up) , a significant amount of water made its way to the lower part of
the chain locker and thence under the water tank to the locker
immediately aft of it and then to the battery compartment.
The interesting part is that, when the boat is heeled hard to starboard,
this water floods under the starboard berth and so reaches up the the
water-line level in the lower part (under shelf) of the starboard locker
above the starboard berth.
This via the drain slot at the inboard side of the locker below the
starboard berth - which I expect was designed to allow condensation to
drain from the starboard locker to the bilge via the battery compartment?
In retrospect it should have been obvious as there is significant water
damage to the port side of the small bulkhead that forms the aft part of
the chain locker.
So I'll make a temporary rubber cowl to inhibit water ingress and over
the winter I'll find the exact cause and rebed as necessary.
The amusing (*gritted teeth* ) aspect of the whole palaver is that I
have replaced window seals (that needed replacing), tightened hulldeck
seals (that needed tightening), and resealed the cockpit sole & the
cockpit locker covers (that needed re-sealing) all in search of what
should (in retrospect) have been the obvious cause.
But all the above needed doing anyway so.... &^$%*&%
All the best,
John V1447 Breakaway
But I think that I may have found the primary cause of ingress of water.
As I suspected (one of my many suspicions) it was water running either
directly through the "hawse pipe" for the anchor chain (or perhaps
penetrating through the deck fittings in that area of fore-deck).
When I applied a power-hose to the hawse pipe this afternoon (while tied
up) , a significant amount of water made its way to the lower part of
the chain locker and thence under the water tank to the locker
immediately aft of it and then to the battery compartment.
The interesting part is that, when the boat is heeled hard to starboard,
this water floods under the starboard berth and so reaches up the the
water-line level in the lower part (under shelf) of the starboard locker
above the starboard berth.
This via the drain slot at the inboard side of the locker below the
starboard berth - which I expect was designed to allow condensation to
drain from the starboard locker to the bilge via the battery compartment?
In retrospect it should have been obvious as there is significant water
damage to the port side of the small bulkhead that forms the aft part of
the chain locker.
So I'll make a temporary rubber cowl to inhibit water ingress and over
the winter I'll find the exact cause and rebed as necessary.
The amusing (*gritted teeth* ) aspect of the whole palaver is that I
have replaced window seals (that needed replacing), tightened hulldeck
seals (that needed tightening), and resealed the cockpit sole & the
cockpit locker covers (that needed re-sealing) all in search of what
should (in retrospect) have been the obvious cause.
But all the above needed doing anyway so.... &^$%*&%
All the best,
John V1447 Breakaway