[Public-list] A few rookie questions

[George Dinwiddie]

Do you have a new style or old style boat?  Is the water you see coming 
from the cockpit (e.g., rain) or from the sea?

edward schroeder wrote:
> George; it sounds as if the caulking is done in the cockpit sole,
> around the rudder post coming thru the sole. Is that correct? My
> seepage appears to be from the bottom of the rudder post outer tube,
> within the under cockpit sole sloping area.Could it be the water is
> really coming up the tube high on the outer tube, running down the
> concealed aft surface of the outer tube and then down the slope?
> Ed. Schroeder
> 
> George Dinwiddie <gdinwiddie at alberg30.org> wrote:  Ed,
> 
> I was talking about the metal piece in the cockpit of the newer boats. 
> You can see it in the photos on 
> http://alberg30.org/maintenance/Steering/ArticulatedTiller/ but it's 
> mostly covered with mainsheet.
> 
> Rebedding that isn't hard. Take off the tiller head (loosen the clamp 
> bolt and tap upwards with a piece of wood). Unscrew the four screws in 
> the corners. Lift up. Clean everything. Mask around it with tape. 
> Bed it with lots of caulk. Put everything back.
> 
> - George
> 
> edward schroeder wrote:
>> George; just read your answer, including mention of rudder post
>> leaking. I just noticed Emotional Rescue is leaking there also. What
>> do you recommend? Ed. Schroeder
>>
>> George Dinwiddie wrote: Lloyd Pulley wrote:
>>> Recently heavy rains overcame my bilge I suspect and then overcame the
>>> batteries and flooded the cabin up to an inch. I had it pumped all out and
>>> then tried to use the manual bilge but could not seem to get it to work...
>>> Is the re a valve, a prime needed of sorts to get that thing to work?
>>>
>>> Is there anything else I need to worry about since it flooded so high?
>> 1. You need to make sure that your manual bilge pump works, or fix it if 
>> it does not. This is a major safety issue. Most likely you've got a 
>> Whale Gusher 10. If so, you can get a rebuild kit for it with all of 
>> the rubber parts. You might want to take it apart, first, to make sure 
>> the aluminum casting is OK. I nursed one along for years, but finally 
>> replaced it. It's probably not worth keeping one as long as I did.
>>
>> 2. You need to figure out where the water came in. This is a 
>> maintenance issue. Check the chainplates. If water is coming in there, 
>> you need to recaulk them right away before the knees rot out and you 
>> lose the rig. Check the deck fittings, particularly in the cockpit. At 
>> one time I was taking on a lot of water via the rudderpost fitting.
>>
>>> Apparently the batteries now are shot and the cables fried.
>> Been there. Done that.
>>
>> - George
>>
>>
> 
> 


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