I built a Sea Runner 37 around the same time yours was built. Nice boat the 34.
Look around the thru hull fitting that holds the centerboard pin. You
might get lucky.
If you should be able to find the source of the lieak from the inside it is
unlikely that it will correspond with the crack in the glass skin on the
outside. Water travels along seams in the plywood and comes out where it can.
Your boat have a mini keel?
Could be a small crack in the glass under the hull at the turn of the
centerboard box. Any leak is hard to find. Have the board ready to drop
when you haul. Get under there with a good light and look for places where
it is still wet. Go hunting with a small hammer - tap tap tap, delaminated
skin will sound flat. Good adhesion will sound sharp. Poke the suspect
spots with your putty knife When you find the crack peel it back and let
it dry before attempting a repair.
Do not dally. The leak is not the problem, what it does to the plywood is!
Once plywood starts to soak up water it swells and the glass skin will pop.
There is also the possibility that the mini keep will come apart from the
resulting swelling. No end to problems then.
Philip
At 01:24 PM 9/27/2007, you wrote:
Actual boat (not list) discussion :-)
I recently (early summer) bought a 1989 SeaRunner 34' Trimaran. I don't
have the original plans, unfortunately.
She appears to have a very minor leak (about 1/2 cup per week)
*somewhere* that drains into the bilge, showing up / visible just forward
of the cockpit, in the bilge. Under that cockpit (just aft of this area)
is where a collapsible water tank on each side of the centerboard.
jim
Philip & Marilyn Lange
AE4OV & KD4JRC,
ORYOKI
Witness 35 Catamaran
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