I also get water coming in through pendant hole when sailing hard in chop.
cheers- Shawn Boles Grey Mist (M17 #276 1978) -----Original Message----- From: Dan White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, September 16, 2002 9:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: M_Boats: Bilge water -- was M17 Keel/Centerboard Todd, Is it at all possible that the water in the bilge is coming in through the pendant? I always collect a little water in the bilge and it is from busting waves. I can see little squirts come up through the hole in the trunk that the pendant feeds through, After a day's sail, I have to bail several gallons. Dan "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote: > Howard, > > Last year whilst crawling underneath Busca I noted a gap in a few spots between the > exterior hull and the fabrication that forms the centerboard trunk: > ___ ___ > | | | | > | | | | > |_| |_| > ^ > > I mixed up some epoxy with colloidal silica filler and putty-knifed it in as best I could. > I'm pretty sure that I have that sealed if indeed it was a source of ingress. > > For some reason, Busca isn't bone dry. A small amount of water collects in the bilge > and in the little valleys in the faux lapstrakes. This past trip was about half or less of > what I would normally have picked up and I think the difference was from re-doing the > bottom transom gudgeon. There were little watermarks below the three bolts and I'm > pretty sure I have that sealed up good now. I thought perhaps some of it could be coming > from the fresh-water porta-pot tank because it is vented, but this time I tilted the porta-pot > about 45* before putting it on the boat to drain off any water that would have leaked. Some > could have also been coming from my water jugs on prior trips, but not this time. That leaves > the through-hulls or maybe (?) the centerboard pinhole? The centerboard pin is a very > tight fit, but I am not sure if water could be leaking past it, either from inside the well or outside > to the inside of the keel. I don't know what is in there. I assume (perhaps Jerry could comment > on this) that there is at least a partial void between the hull and the cabin sole and that if water > could migrate up the keel through the ballast it could collect between the sole and the hull? > > I do have an extra through-hull for a speedo but I'm going to pull that and plug it. I'm running > out of ideas on where that water could be coming from. I haven't tasted it (seems like a good > opportunity to get sick) to see if it's saltwater or fresh. > > Tod Mills > M17 #408 > "BuscaBrisas"....................fiberglass/lead board, galley model > > _______________________________________________ > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats _______________________________________________ http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/montgomery_boats
