Everytime it rains I get water in my boat. It is not coming from the windows or the hatch(as far as I can tell) The water collects in the cabin around where the keel bolts to the body. I have noticed that there are two holes in one of the three cavities underneath the wooden deck boards. After I use a wet vac to get the water out of the cavities, I then have to duck tape a small vinyl hose to the vaccum hose and suck the water out of these two small holes(about half an inch in diameter). I think that the water is coming through the mast somehow but I have never taken down the mast before to see what it look likes. Can anyone help me? I am really getting tired of vaccuming!
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Where is all this water coming from
Everytime it rains I get water in my boat. It is not coming from the windows or the hatch(as far as I can tell) The water collects in the cabin around where the keel bolts to the body. I have noticed that there are two holes in one of the three cavities underneath the wooden deck boards. After I use a wet vac to get the water out of the cavities, I then have to duck tape a small vinyl hose to the vaccum hose and suck the water out of these two small holes(about half an inch in diameter). I think that the water is coming through the mast somehow but I have never taken down the mast before to see what it look likes. Can anyone help me? I am really getting tired of vaccuming! 1985 Hunter 23
Everytime it rains I get water in my boat. It is not coming from the windows or the hatch(as far as I can tell) The water collects in the cabin around where the keel bolts to the body. I have noticed that there are two holes in one of the three cavities underneath the wooden deck boards. After I use a wet vac to get the water out of the cavities, I then have to duck tape a small vinyl hose to the vaccum hose and suck the water out of these two small holes(about half an inch in diameter). I think that the water is coming through the mast somehow but I have never taken down the mast before to see what it look likes. Can anyone help me? I am really getting tired of vaccuming! 1985 Hunter 23
Check rub rail
Tony, On my `95 H19, everytime it rained we would get water and went crazy trying to find it. Finally setup the hose and started my own rain storm while inside the boat. Water was seeping in and down the inside of the hull. I traced this to the rub rail. I caulked the entire rub rail on top edge of where is mates to the boat. Bye Bye Water. Never leaked again. Jim S/V Java
Tony, On my `95 H19, everytime it rained we would get water and went crazy trying to find it. Finally setup the hose and started my own rain storm while inside the boat. Water was seeping in and down the inside of the hull. I traced this to the rub rail. I caulked the entire rub rail on top edge of where is mates to the boat. Bye Bye Water. Never leaked again. Jim S/V Java
Main hatch?
This happened when I was tied up once in a slip that faced downwind. After a heavy rainstorm there was water in the bilge, and normally the boat stays dry no matter how hard it rains. In this particular instance, the wind was pushing the rainwater off the clear hatch into the gutters on either side of the main fiberglass hatch. These gutters are pretty shallow, and they overflowed into the boat. BTW, a large sponge and a bucket will dry all the nooks and crannies in your bilge in no time flat if you don't have a shop vac. Peter S/V Raven (go Baltimore!)
This happened when I was tied up once in a slip that faced downwind. After a heavy rainstorm there was water in the bilge, and normally the boat stays dry no matter how hard it rains. In this particular instance, the wind was pushing the rainwater off the clear hatch into the gutters on either side of the main fiberglass hatch. These gutters are pretty shallow, and they overflowed into the boat. BTW, a large sponge and a bucket will dry all the nooks and crannies in your bilge in no time flat if you don't have a shop vac. Peter S/V Raven (go Baltimore!)
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