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[Roger L Kingsland]

John,

My forward well (in the head area) on #148 is very shallow and looks to be
the top of the keel (clink, clink when you tap it).  It and the next one aft
have sloped bottoms.  The two aft compartments have plywood floors through
which I drilled  3" holes to see what's down there and found the top of the
keel a few inches below the plywood.  The keel slopes down going aft and
water that gets in the compartments (and the cavities under the aft two)
drains into the bilge.  Perhaps you simply need to open some existing or new
holes between the top of the keel and the bilge to let the trapped water
out.

There is a bulkhead separating the aft compartment from the bilge/engine
area that runs from under the cabin sole to about 6" from bottom of the
bilge where it stops and a portion of the cast iron keel extends 2"+/- into
the bilge (creating a little shelf near the bottom of the bilge).  I have
always assumed the water from the top of the keel made its way to the bilge
through there.

Unrelated to your issue but relative to the same area of the boat, I could
not find anything fastening the cabin sole to the sides of the hull.  I gave
myself a nice headache sticking my head in the battery compartments with a
flashlight and it appears the wood cabin sole just butts into the side of
the hull and is only fastened to the little bulkheads separating the battery
boxes and bilge.

Roger

Roger Kingsland
Chief Boat Boy, Rubber/Scraper and Check Writer
Alberg 30 #148, PERFECT intentions
N40°29.2864'  W79°54.2202'

"You don't have to think outside of the box, but it doesn't hurt to peek
over the edge once in a while."
Leonardo Da Vinci (or somebody like that)




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Coolray" <cooler2k at yahoo.com>
To: "A30s" <public-list at alberg30.org>
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2005 6:16 PM
Subject: [Public-list] (no subject)


> Hey guys,
>
> Thanks for the info on the thru hulls and seacocks.
> I've been pulling, cutting and unscrewing old derelict
> stuff for days, but progress is being made. The bilge
> is clean and the diesel is diminishing. As you might
> expect, I have a question.
>
> I thought I was standing on top of the keel in the
> second well of the battery box. It was some type of
> mortar mix which I thought was poured over the top of
> the keel. It turned out to be a layer of mortar poured
> over a second subfloor below which was a 6" cavity of
> trapped foul bilge water and then the top of the keel.
> This was also the case in the first well as you come
> down the companionway. Each well is separated by a
> vertical support wall for the true subfloor, kind of a
> sub-bulkhead. There are three wells forward of the
> companionway all following a slope from fore to aft
> and probably at one time connected to allow drainage
> aft. My question lies in the area beneath my engine
> compartment. That "well" is 6" higher than its
> adjacent foreward well. It has been poured with mortar
> as well, but it may be poured solid. I do not want to
> hold foul water but am not sure I can drain this area
> or even if it is a cavity.
> Can anyone describe the construction of the
> bilge/keel/battery box design on most of the boats or
> has anyone run into a similar situation?
>
> Thank you for you assistance.
>
> John Cooler
> Atalaya #87
>
>
>
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