Hi all,
Newbie question. I'm getting water (fresh water) in the bilge after a rain shower with no visible leakage from the deck fittings or windows. A guy at our sailing club who owns a 2006 Catalina 30.9 (mine is a 2005 310), and said that he had the same problem and found it was due to size of the lazzerette locker on the port side. That locker is so large, that if you store anchors and other heavier items in it, the boat lists to port a bit, and causes rain water to accumulate over the lazzerette hatch cover drains, which overflows into the locker and eventually the bilge. He said Catalina recognized the problem with his boat, and installed counter-weights on the starboard side. Has anyone else had this problem?
Newbie question. I'm getting water (fresh water) in the bilge after a rain shower with no visible leakage from the deck fittings or windows. A guy at our sailing club who owns a 2006 Catalina 30.9 (mine is a 2005 310), and said that he had the same problem and found it was due to size of the lazzerette locker on the port side. That locker is so large, that if you store anchors and other heavier items in it, the boat lists to port a bit, and causes rain water to accumulate over the lazzerette hatch cover drains, which overflows into the locker and eventually the bilge. He said Catalina recognized the problem with his boat, and installed counter-weights on the starboard side. Has anyone else had this problem?