Hi Tom, A gallon of water per week seems like a lot! Especially since the boat is shrink-wrapped. Are you having much snow or rain in NY this winter?
One way water might be coming in is down the shrouds and down the chainplates, assuming the rig is up and the shrink-wrap seal around the shrouds is imperfect. When I bought my 30-1 a year ago I could tell from water damage inside that the chainplates were leaking, and I'm in the middle of a project to re-seal them right now. You could take a washable marker and trace around the inside of the hull just under the deck/hull joint, and trace around the bottom of the chainplates. After a few weeks, if you see the marker line running down, you'll know where at least some of the water is coming in. I did that on my boat and it confirmed the chainplate leak. Cheers, Randy Stafford S/V Grenadine C&C 30-1 #7 Ken Caryl, CO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas Delaney via CnC-List" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> To: "cnc-list" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Cc: "Thomas Delaney" <tomcdela...@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2017 8:27:36 AM Subject: Stus-List New (old) C&C 35 Mk I - Water Ingress 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 _______________________________________________ This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you wish to make a contribution to offset our costs, please go to: https://www.paypal.me/stumurray All Contributions are greatly appreciated!
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