Sidney, the cockpit scuppers (the two holes in the cockpit) should be connected to two through-hulls and should let the water from the cockpit to drain out. The scuppers are connected to the through-hulls with hoses (and there are valves at the through-hulls). Unless they have been changed these valves are standard gate valves – the wrong kind of valves for this purpose. Make sure that you have drainage from the scuppers to the outside and that you don’t have leaks in the hoses connecting the scuppers to the through-hulls.
Btw. the best way to check this is to climb down into the space below the cockpit. If you cannot do it, try going in head first, but make sure that there is someone to help you get out of there (without help, it might be tricky). The original windows do leak. There are ways to reduce the amount of leak, but they do leak. Then there is the bow hatch. Over time the gasket in it gets tired and there can be some leak. Though, that one would leak onto the V-berth cushion. Marek ex 1974 C&C 24 From: Sid via CnC-List Sent: Monday, October 15, 2018 13:30 To: cnc-list@cnc-list.com Cc: Sid Subject: Stus-List Rain Water & bilge pump questions Good Afternoon, I have a 1980 C&C 24ft. Sailboat. We had some heavy rain a couple times last couple weeks. There is a board inside the cabin on the floor the covers the keel. It fills up with water when it rains. The boat has a manual pump in cockpit close to the stern of the boat that I use to pump out that water but it does not pump out the water in the holes in the cockpit. There are two holes that the rain water goes in to in the cockpit. I can access the space below the cockpit via the right locker. I can see a U shape pipe the two holes connect to and that pipe goes inside the bottom of the hull. This past storm there was so much rain that the keel hole filled up the floor had 1/8 inch of water on it. I notice that when I manually pump out the water in the keel that the water in the cockpit pipe it did not pump that out. 1. is it normal to get water in the keel after it rains? 2. anyone know how the water leaves the boat when it rains in the cockpit? 3. where to install a bilge pump that turn on automatically to pump out the water? 4. how / where to run the bilge pump pipe to? 5. does to cockpit water goes to the keel hole in the cabin? I am assuming no the way the pipe leave the hull below the cockpit. Thank You Sidney
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