Hello listers, In December I finalized the purchase of my first keelboat, a C&C 35 Mk I, after receiving an extremely thorough and detailed list of items to survey from Joe Della Barba. Joe, thanks again for your help!
The previous owner of the boat was a local racing legend who ran a marina near Glen Island, NY. He had been giving me advice on readying the boat for her new life on a mooring after spending the last four decades in a slip adjacent to his houseboat. Unfortunately, he passed away last weekend. One of the questions I had yet to broach was the accumulation of water in the bilge. The boat has been on the hard, shrinkwrapped, for three years. I've been pumping the bilge dry every two-four weeks, and it seems to be about 2-4 gallons of water as measured by a big plastic bucket. I'm not sure where the water is coming from. Apart from the bilge, water is pooling in the forward-most storage compartment under the port settee. My first instinct is to have a friend on deck hold the screws on the toerails and stanchion bases while I slightly tighten the nuts below deck and see if the water ingress stops. Does that make sense? Is there a different, better course of action I should take at this time? Does anyone know offhand what size socket I'll need? Thanks in advance, Tom --- Snow Goose C&C 35 Mk I City Island, NY
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