[Public-List] Placement of batteries in port lazarette

Glenn brooks.glenn at comcast.net
Wed Jun 12 06:07:03 PDT 2024 

Just FYI,  my A30 back flooded once, through the transom into the bilge. Filled up the main cabin and 8” above the floor boards while we weren’t looking -   due to siphon action.  Hahah. A few moments of panic that day. put in an anti siphon exhaust loop and one way flapper valve afterwards to “mitigate” the issue…


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> On Jun 12, 2024, at 2:49 PM, Gordon Laco via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
> 
> We had a mysterious leak in Surprise which I hope is a complete anomaly.
> 
> The cause turned out to be a leaking knot meter  through hull.    For more than ten years we had to pump the boat out, with no apparent source of the trouble.  I checked the rudder gland, adjusted the prop stuffing box, examined the underside of the keel for the classic leak A30’s can develop down there… and checked all the through hulls and engine cooling.
> 
> Then last spring after launch we were motoring the few hundred meters from the winter berth marina back to the sailing club.   The knot meter wasn’t working.   Trouble shooting led to a correct diagnosis that the sending unit was dead, so I ordered a new one.
> 
> With the new one ready, I pulled the old one out and pushed the new one in against the brief inflow of water and turned the knurled knob to tighten it in place (after testing the new one by connecting it and flicking the spinner).
> 
> Imagine my surprise when instead of coming up tight against the rubber gasket in the head of the sending unit, the whole through hull turned.  I turned it again, and noticed water start gushing in AROUND THE INNER NUT OF THE THROUGH HULL.  Yikes.
> 
> A quick phone call to the marina, fortunately right next door to the club, confirmed they were still open and their travel lift was still manned…. for twenty minutes.  I said ’Thanks Patti - we’re sinking.  Can I come right over and get yanked out?’  Yes.
> 
> Once safely back in our cradle and dried out, I removed the knot meter’s sending unit’s through hull.  My my what a surprise to discover that the hole the installer had drilled for the through hull was a full 1/4” too large in diameter.  I found the caulking compound he’d applied to the throat of the fitting where the flange started completely intact as a round sectioned bead… it had cured without touching the edges of the hole.   All that was keeping the water out for a decade was the pressure of the uncaulked outer flange against the hull.  It leaked, and due to insecure tightening, had come loose completely when I changed the sending units.
> 
> I reinstalled the fitting after repairing the hole size, and merrily continued with the old mysterious leak resolved at last.   And I test the sending unit BEFORE launch now as part of standing orders.    I harboured uncharitable thoughts about the installer… yes I should have done it myself but at the time I wanted to do him a favour by giving him work.
> 
> The leak was minor enough that it wasn’t easily apparent when I’d been checking it previously when hunting for it… the sheen of water coming down from it didn’t who in my flashlight and I didn’t feel it when I wiped my fingers around the fitting.
> 
> Onwards…
> 
> 
> Gordon Laco
> www.gordonlaco.com
> 705-527-9612
> 
> 
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>> On Jun 12, 2024, at 8:31 AM, Marcelo D. Gentinetta via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
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>> I would also check the stuffing box of the rudder tube to make sure it does not leak. Do you have any through hull transducers that may be leaking?
>> Marcelo
>> Alegria #441
>> 
>>>> On Jun 12, 2024, at 5:43 AM, John Irving via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I launched my A30 and have a leak I can’t find.  It’s a 1979 boat and hard to access or see many areas. I’ve checked every through hull and the shaft gland and stern tube have minimal dripping.  In the 10 years I’ve owned the boat I’ve had no issues but now I need to pump it daily.  Any thoughts?John IrvingJirvingvt at gmail.com
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>>>> On Sunday, June 9, 2024, 7:40 AM, Gordon Laco via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello Wade,
>>> 
>>> My batteries are also down  there in my #426 Surprise… I have no trouble reaching the lever of the ball valve on the engine’s intake.  I use two somewhat larger marine batteries which sit far enough forward in the battery trough under the floor board that the aftermost does not obstruct access.
>>> 
>>> I
>>> Gordon Laco
>>> www.gordonlaco.com
>>> 705-527-9612
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On Jun 9, 2024, at 7:16 AM, Wade Wall via Public-List <public-list at lists.alberg30.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> 
>>>> I have a later Alberg with a liner and really don't like the battery
>>>> placement basically in the bulge. Has anyone moved the batteries to the
>>>> port lazarette. I like the current placement in terms of sailing, but I
>>>> can't get to the water intake seacock, and that bothers me. How do you all
>>>> handle this?
>>>> 
>>>> I am still having issues replying because of my g-mail account, so
>>>> apologize in advance for the slow replies
>>>> 
>>>> Wade Wall
>>>> #421
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