you don't say how old your s2 9.2 is. if your bilge is getting water you ahve to eliminate all the possible sources 1 by 1: but i'd check for :
chainplates weeping
hatch seals leaking
ports leaking
seacocks leaking at places in the hull where they are bedded or at the hsoes attached to them:
any drilled holes in hull or deck leaking under deck ?(stanchion mounts, etc.)
stuffing box and strut log area (where your propeller shaft is entering the boat..)
on an older boat the caulking eventually dries out and pulls away from the holes drilled thru the deck for chainplates , stanchions etc...
also check for leaks from any hoses attached to seacocks. small leaks in the hose= a lot of h 2 0 in bilge if seacock is below the waterline. on my 5 year old boat my bilge was getting wet from a constant leak from the raw water supply hose into the head, which had abraded a small hole in itself where it ran thru a bulkhead. this drove me crazy. the bilge was pumped dry and all s eacocks shut every time we left the boat. everytime we were aboard putting all seacocks 'on' for engine, head, seawater washdown -- i got h 2 0 into the bilge..
i found the e asiest way to check each fitting for leaks was: start at the stern, tape a a piece of colored kleenex tissue --held with MMM blue painters tape--next to each of the suspect joints --then you watch for the kleenex to change color . if you are aboard in a huge rainstorm this is the best time to check. tape your telltales into palce then wait an hour, have a beer. in my case for the 25 year old boat i found: 1) ' weeping chainplates' both sides , running rain h 20 and green water during sailing straight into the bilge. these were tricky to find as you ahd to go into a cupboard to see the chainplates, and the water leaks were running down the inside of the hull in back of the palstic liners. 2) leaky stanchions at the thru bolts in the deck near the entry gates , and 3) a leaky main hatch. you should also check for water seeping in at stuffing box and the prop shaft exit in the hull. this leak is very important because if your shaft log is leaking badly , the leak can become catastrophic and you can lose your boat. so crawl into your engine compartment, follow the propshaft out of the engine to where i disappears into the shaft log to exit the boat. (for pictures of what this area looks like google PYI shaft seal. even though you probably don't have one of these on your boat. .) if you have any significant water weeping out of a fat rubber hoselike thing where the prop shaft exits the boat while your boat is a rest, you may have found the source of the leak. on my boat i have oldfashioned packing rings supplied with grease. a small amount of h 2 0 2 drips per minute comes onto the propshaft by design to lubricate it when i am running. but there are zero drips when the engine is not running. )
easiest way to check for propshaft leaks is to look a t the area while at rest then CAREFULLY check for drips with p shaft running ie engine on and running in neutral in the slip. (SAFETY WARNING : please DO NOT go near the running p shaft with your long hair or mardi gras beads or loose clothing sleeves, as you do NOT want yourself sucked into the p shaft or rotating around with the propshaft.. very dangerous..)
so let us know what you find...
