This has been discussed numerous times. Most of us just put a piece of cotton line or a sponge through a hole in the toe rail to wick the water over the side. I use lantern wick. It is not recommended to drill deck or toe rail to drain the water.
-- Dennis C. Touche' 35-1 #83 Mandeville, LA On Sat, Aug 15, 2020 at 11:20 AM Cam Lubbock via CnC-List < cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > Hello All, > > I’m guessing I’m not the first one to have this issue, but I haven’t seen > it posted since being a list member. > > My C&C 38 mkII has the usual toe rail with the holes all along it. The > holes are about a 1/2” above deck level so only large amounts of water > drains from them. There are scuppers next to the cockpit but they are a few > inches inboard from the rail, and with the sloping decks, they also only > drain water when it gets high. There seems to always be a bit of water > sitting along the rail at the low point, and it makes a bit of a mess of > the deck when I’m away from the boat and not able to sponge it up. > > Does anyone have a simple solution besides tearing the deck apart to > lower/move the scupper or drilling through the toe rail which would weaken > it? Or should I just let evaporation do it’s thing and scrub the deck there > whenever I can? > > Thanks, > > Cam > 1976 C&C 38 MkII Checkmake > Parry Sound, ON, Canada > > > >
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