Hello everyone... Ok so as perhaps a few of you remember I spent some significant time a while back tracking down a fresh water leak on my boat. I didn't know where it was coming from but it turned out it was coming out of the safety/pressure relief valve on my hot water heater (an Atlantic Marine F/R series). Now the leak was hard to find as the safety valve had been set up with a flexible pipe that went down into the bowls of the ship and simply disappeared. I re-routed this hose so it ended in the bilge and to my surprise it stopped leaking... and although confused I figured I must have fixed the problem. ...yet it would seem that things were not that simple. A week later the safety valve started leaking again and has not stopped since. The really odd thing is that when I relive pressure through the safety valve manually the water comes out hot (as one would expect) but the water that is leaking out of the hose on a regular basis is in fact cold. This only confuses me further. I wanted to turn down the thermostat on the water heater figuring it must be overpressure because it is turned up to high, but I discovered that the model I have does not have an adjustable thermostat. So I'm completely confused at this point. Add to the fact that the water heater is less than two years old and I really can't figure out why it's failing. Perhaps I should just replace the safety valve and be done with it... but why is it leaking cold water? Anyway if you have any ideas or have had a similar problem please give me ideas. As always the help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, -Levin
