Where to find...

[jorgefife]

I saw an intersting thread yesterday about water in the head compartment, and how to have it fixed
The thread I saw had some great suggestions on how to do it, and I asked a couple of questions; I am now trying to go back to that thread, but for the life of me cannot find it!
Where should I look?
It was not under the usual forum,. but I cannot find it!
Looked under all kinds of boats, still no luck
Any ideas out there where to go?
Because I have the same problem, water on the head floor, with great points on how to fix it, but I needed more on the subject, and the person probably replied!
Thanks

 

[Phil Herring]

Might be this one, it wandered into that topic:

http://forums.sbo.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?t=126584

 

[kloudie1]

This one ??
http://forums.hunter.sailboatowners.com/showthread.php?t=126519&highlight=anti-freeze+head

 

[Ed Schenck]

Phil's got it.

 

[jorgefife]

Phil:
It was yours, thank you !

But Kloudie:
Yours is just as intersting!
Thank you both for helping

 

[jorgefife]

Hello there!
Yes, Phil has it; and thank you for your input... so you say the water comes from the engine compartment?
It never really fills up there, because I did replaced the packing recently
Hummm...

 

[kloudie1]

Oops.. forgot that the head in the 33 adjoins the engine compartment on starboard side..

 

[jorgefife]

The water comes in when the boat is resting at the slip!
The mistery deepens...
But I will check it out

 

[Ed Schenck]

If you took the top off the boat and removed the cabinetry I wonder how similar our boats would be? My inner liner, like yours, includes the engine pan and engine mount rails. Behind the engine pan the fiberglass goes up and back making a shelf for the muffler and the hot water tank. That shelf extends to starboard under a bulkhead that separates the engine room from the starboard locker. So any water from the muffler or exhaust, from the water heater and plumbing, from leaks in the lockers, will lay on that shelf. If the boat is leaning to starboard it will run forward, in my case it comes out under the galley. For you that would be your aft and starboard head. One trick is to lay some pieces of paper towel in suspect areas and see what gets wet first.

 

[SamLust]

Ed and Jorge;

The 33 differs from the 37 in that the engine pan terminates just under the trans to shaft coupling . It leaves a small opening, only about 3/8 inch high and maybe 3 inches wide. Any water from aft of that point such as the rudder shaft, exhaust or maybe an open locker lid runs directly forward down under the engine and forward into the bilge. The water on Jorges floor is from the shower drain sump which is a separate compartment just forward of the engine. It is formed as part of the engine pan and rails. The main problem is lousy design and engineering in that the sump is almost at the same level as the head floor. Water from the head floor goes into this sump. Any that the centrifugal (cheap bilge type) pump does not get manages to work it's way back onto the head floor. Centrifugal pumps in reality can't suck. They reguire immersion of the impeller (prime) and then for the most part only move liquid. (I work with this every day. We pump upwards of 30,000 gallons of Sailor Jerry Rum and Clan Mac Gregor Scotsh and deionized water every day.) Because of this the pump can not suck the sump dry. There is always some water residue. As soon as the boat moves a little bit the water finds it's way back to the floor. I haven't figured out a cure for it yet, but then I've only had the boat for 13 years.

How bout plug up the drain tube with a cork, dry up the floor and see what happens?