[Public-list] A few rookie questions

[edward schroeder]

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 <gdinwiddie at alberg30.org> 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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