I recently purchased a 1974 Cat 22. It had only been stored outside a couple months before I bought it. Upon a more thorough inspection I found water under the forward dinette bench. Maybe a gallon. One of the POs. had a field day with the fiberglass in there, including patching the shit out of where the keel lock bolt should be.
There was also a good amount of water under the V berth, where someone cut a big hole in the foam, presumably to access the water? None of the other compartments had water. The boat tilts forward a bit on the trailer so it makes sense the water would run to the bow
my questions: how screwed am I? What are the odds it’s coming in from a crack in the fiberglass somewhere below the water line? Should I try to grind out the old fiberglass where the keel lock bolt was and try to reinstall it? It seems a likely culprit for the leak.
There was also a good amount of water under the V berth, where someone cut a big hole in the foam, presumably to access the water? None of the other compartments had water. The boat tilts forward a bit on the trailer so it makes sense the water would run to the bow
my questions: how screwed am I? What are the odds it’s coming in from a crack in the fiberglass somewhere below the water line? Should I try to grind out the old fiberglass where the keel lock bolt was and try to reinstall it? It seems a likely culprit for the leak.
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