[alberg30] Reply to Gordon White and Pete H.

[Peter/Michael Hay]

Pete H. & Gordon W.
Thanks for your replies.  I obviously don't know my bilge from my belly button.  I assumed that the area below the cabin sole was also known as the bilge.  As you have stated, my batteries are located beneath the sole in the two aft compartments.  The soft material I referred to must be the same as where Gordon indicates he had a small hole.  The difference is that my hole (in the aft sole compartment) is about 6" x 8" and a bilge pump is located in the lower compartment (I assume that the bottom of this hole is the top of the keel).  The second compartment (forward of the first) also has the soft material but hasn't yet been punctured.  The original engine was replaced with a diesel and a new fiberglass pan sits in the engine compartment.  I have not tried to reach forward from the aft sole compartment to see if I can reach under the engine pan.  I will give it a try this weekend since the batteries are out.  I assume the bilge extends under the engine to where the hull joins the keel????
Greetings from the great white north!
Yours
Peter Hay   Rubicon #384
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Gordon E. White <gewhite at crosslink.net>
    To: alberg30 at onelist.com <alberg30 at onelist.com>
    Date: Friday, November 06, 1998 7:35 AM
    Subject: [alberg30] Re: batteries
    
    
    Pete, 
        My boat is # 275 and the batteries are under the cabin sole just forward of the engine compartment bulkhead where the steps are. They are on a shelf maybe 10-12" below the sole. At first when I got the boat I thought the bottom of the compartment was the bottom of the bilge and the top of the keel, but I later found a small hole (into which, as always, some piece of hardware I was working with, fell) and found there was space below the battery compartment. In my boat it is open at its aft end under the engine and forms the "lower bilge." With great contortions I can reach into it to retrieve lost articles. Very great contortions. I think there has to be a space there though whether it is accessible (!) on various boats is probably different. 
        Forward of that compartment is another one where I also have a battery but which does not seem to have a lower section, in fact I think the bottom of that one is the top of the keel. Even further forward is a very shallow compartment which obviously is right on top of the keel. 
                                        - Gordon White 
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